Qatar 2022 is no World Cup for gay people

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Adam Crafton went to report for The Athletic durg the World Cup Qatar. As a gay man, this was his experience

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A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans. * qatar world cup no gay *

“It don’t matter if you’re lbian, if you’re gay, ’s for everyone. Homosexualy Qatar is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison.

But there have been mixed msag wh a World Cup ambassador and former footballer Khalid Salman sayg earlier this month that homosexualy was “damage the md, ” an terview wh German broadster ZDF. He is a regular at England ternatnals and was once the victim of a homophobic asslt, he says, at Wembley four years ago, ahead of England’s match agast Spa 2018, when he had an altertn wh another fan.

CONFN, EXASPERATN AND DATG APPS – MY MONTH AS A GAY REPORTER AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP

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Qatar FIFA World Cup ambassador and former footballer Khalid Salman has said homosexualy is “damage the md, ” an terview wh German broadster ZDF on Monday. Durg the terview, Salman was discsg the issue of homosexualy beg illegal Qatar.

Salman told ZDF that beg gay was “haram, ” meang forbidn acrdg to Islamic law.

QATAR 2022 IS NO WORLD CUP FOR GAY PEOPLE

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As many people are expected to travel to Qatar for the World Cup, “let’s talk about gays, ” Salman said. Qatari law crimaliz sex outsi marriage, cludg gay sex. In the terpretatn of Sharia law that Qatar follows, sex outsi of marriage, cludg homosexualy, is punishable by jail time and, as a maximum sentence, ath by stong, though there isn’t available evince that such a punishment has ever been ed.

WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN

Nasser Mohamed, a gay Qatari livg exile the US, explaed to Vox. So ’s really hard to build a gay muny.

Mohamed left Qatar his 20s for medil school “wh the tentn of never g back” bee of the limed life he led as a gay man there.

‘NOBODY FEELS UNSAFE HERE’: GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO TOLD HE IS WELE AT QATAR WORLD CUP

Though there are small pockets of LGBTQ people Qatar, there’s not a gay scene, Mohamed said. “If you’re an expat, you’re able to live your life like you want, ” a gay Arab man livg Doha told Rters. I know gay men workers’ mps wouldn’t be able to live the same way.

Captas, cludg England skipper Millie Bright, have been banned - jt like the men Qatar - om beg allowed to wear "One Love" multiloured armbands featurg a would have obliquely referenced LGBTQ+ rights wh so many players out as gay at the tournament, cludg Atralia pta Sam Kerr, who said: "Obvly, we would have liked to have worn , but I'm not gog to put this team at risk. Perhaps FIFA was unwillg to ve aga havg dropped Vis Sdi as a tournament sponsor unr prsure om Atralia and New Zealand, as well as the players, over the kgdom's anti-gay lobbyg ma clear the players won't be silenced on a platform they were nied for so long. Several players on this team are openly gay, as has been the se wh recent World Cup and Olympic teams.

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