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Contents:

• JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’
• ‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
• BEG GAY DOHA
• GAY PRI
• WYNDHAM TO INVTIGATE AS QATARI HOTEL SAYS GAY GUTS BANNED
• GAY PLAYER CAVALLO HAS NO REASON TO FEEL UNSAFE QATAR: WC TOURNAMENT CHIEF
• CONFN, EXASPERATN AND DATG APPS – MY MONTH AS A GAY REPORTER AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP
• OPN: DR. NASSER ‘NAS’ MOHAMED SOUGHT ASYLUM THE US AFTER G OUT AS GAY. HERE’S WHAT HE WANTS PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT QATAR
• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’

In November the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup opens Qatar, a untry that reprs the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people and punish same-sex relatns wh up to seven years prison.

It found that only 33 did not object to bookg same-sex upl, while 20 others said that “they would acmodate same-sex upl as long as they did not publicly show that they were gay.

‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS

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. In the months sce, Mohamed lnched the non-prof Alwan Foundatn to advance LGBTQ+ rights across the Middle East and pecially Qatar, where he says that secury operativ filtrate gay muni orr to torture and erce members to rm on others. There are some people om really affluent fai that are gay and ’s almost public knowledge—but they’re really wealthy, affluent, and very nnected, so people jt don’t say anythg.

Josh Cavallo, the only openly gay top-flight male soccer player the sport, has told CNN that FIFA’s cisn to ban players om wearg “OneLove” armbands at the Qatar 2022 has ma him feel “exclud. FIFA says LGBTQ flags will be allowed to fly si Qatari stadiums durg next year’s World Cup, spe the Mlim natn’s strict laws agast homosexual acts. It will tt the majory-Mlim natn several ways, but primarily when to public toxitn and homosexualy — both of which are illegal there.

BEG GAY DOHA

Atralia’s Josh Cavallo, a fenr who me out as gay October, said he would be aaid to play at the World Cup Qatar bee of the Gulf natn’s ban on homosexualy. ”“Our role is to stand up to this phenomenon, homosexualy, bee ’s a dangero iology, ” he add, “and ’s beg nasty and people are not ashamed of anymore.

“They (the Premier League) will tell you that homosexualy is human rights, ” said Aboutrika, who now works as a TV pund for the Qatari-based sports work beIN SPORTS. “I’m an openly gay woman football, so this is personally, to me, somethg I'm close to as well, ” said Joyce Cook, FIFA’s chief social rponsibily and tn officer.

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GAY PRI

Photograph: Caspar BensonInfanto also played down ncerns over whether LGBTQ+ fans faced danger a untry where gay people risk torture and imprisonment, and sisted that Qatar – wh Fifa’s help – had reformed workers’ rights beyond all speech began, though, wh Infanto appearg to suggt that his own experienc as a son of Italian immigrants Swzerland gave him a ep unrstandg of migrant workers and other mori Qatar. “You want to stay at home and say how bad they are, the Arabs, the Mlims, bee ’s not allowed to be publicly gay. "Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Durg England match, Harry Kane wears a whe One Love pta's armband, wh a rabow sign support of the LGBT munyThe cisn to stage the World Cup Qatar, a untry where homosexualy n be punishable by ath, has been cricised by LGBT groups.

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Welsh football fans will be travellg to their first World Cup sce 1958 - and have unveiled a flag supportg LGBT supportersMr Cleverly said he would be attendg the World Cup, addg that the UK has "credibly important partners the Middle East" Tatchell said he was "surround and terrogated" by thori followg the one-man prott, believed to be the first LGBT rights prott to take place any Gulf mpaigner said the foreign secretary should not attend the World Cup, and stead "highlight the ab beg rried out by the regime" planng to be at the event, Mr Cleverly would be "lludg wh a homophobic, sexist and racist regime", he digal, culture, media and sport secretary Lucy Powell h out at the foreign secretary's remark, scribg as "shockgly tone-af" said: "Sport should be open to all. Although Qatar says all fans will be wele whout discrimatn, homosexualy is illegal Lovell ns Villa and Proud Birmgham and said the group's members were nflicted about whether or not to engage wh the tournament.

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.

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Gay Pri, also lled LGBT Pri or LGBTQ Pri, byname Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty.

Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts, which began the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raid the Stonewall Inn bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood. Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement). In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year).

Early Gay Pri events (often lled Freedom Day or Gay Liberatn Day) were often sparsely attend and enuntered protts, particularly bee of the outlandish stum that some marchers wore.

GAY PLAYER CAVALLO HAS NO REASON TO FEEL UNSAFE QATAR: WC TOURNAMENT CHIEF

In 1978 what is perhaps the most-regnized symbol of Gay Pri ma s but at the San Francis event: the rabow flag. As acceptance of the LGBTQ muny creased among the straight muny, policians sympathetic to the views of the LGBTQ muny and gay-iendly bs and rporatns began participatg the march. The total number of people participatg—both gay and straight—mhroomed, and Pri events were held many part of the globe, cludg ci where they sometim enuntered stiff ristance (e.

Associated PrsDec 10, 2020, 04:51 AM ETRabow flags will be allowed stadiums at the 2022 World Cup after Qatar said would ply wh FIFA l promotg tolerance and cln at match spe the Arab untry's strict anti-LGBTQ ls than two years until the tournament, though, ncerns persist about the treatment facg gay fans Qatar due the nservative relig prohibg same-sex relatns that nflict wh FIFA's stance agast homophobia. "I'm an openly gay woman football, so this is personally, to me, somethg I'm close to as well, " FIFA's chief social rponsibily and tn officer Joyce Cook said. "Ahead of the stagg Club World Cup last year, Qatar brought a member of Liverpool's "Kop Outs" supporters' group and his hband to the untry to offer assuranc that gay fans would be wele.

Activists worried over treatment of LGBTQ+ people at World CupReporters posed as gay uple planng honeymoon QatarMay 13, 2022 at 9:10 AM EDTLock This article is for subscribers up for our Middle East newsletter and follow @middleeast for news on the regn. Said would vtigate after s Doha hotel said gay tourists weren’t wele, heighteng ncerns over the treatment of LGBTQ+ people who attend the soccer World Cup Qatar later this NextWyndham to Invtigate as Qatari Hotel Says Gay Guts Banned. REUTERS/Ibraheem Al Omari Acquire Licensg RightsDec 1 (Rters) - Atralia's first openly gay footballer Josh Cavallo has no reason to feel unsafe at next year's World Cup Qatar, the chief executive of the tournament has said after the midfielr exprsed safety ncerns over his potential participatn.

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

Alai Uned's Cavallo beme the first active A-League player to e out as gay October, receivg a wave of support om players and fans. Cavallo told the Guardian last month that he would be 'sred' to play the 2022 World Cup Qatar, where gay sex is a crimal 22-year-old has played for Atralia's youth team but has yet to receive a ll-up to the senr squad. BERLIN (AP) — Qatar’s ambassador to Germany was urged Monday to abolish his untry’s penalti for homosexualy at a human rights ngrs hosted by the German soccer feratn two months before the Middle East untry stag the World reprentative Dar Mn swched to English to directly addrs the Qatari ambassador, Abdulla b Mohammed b Sd Al Thani, at the ngrs Frankfurt.

”Qatar’s laws and society have e unr creased scty the past law lls for a prison sentence of one to three years for adults nvicted of nsensual gay or lbian sex. State Department warned a report last year that homosexualy remas punishable by ath unr Shariah, or Islamic, law, though there have been no reports of any such executn beg rried out Qatar.

Major General Abdulaziz Abdullah Al Ansari, a senr lear overseeg secury for the tournament, prevly told The Associated Prs that rabow flags uld be taken om fans at the World Cup Qatar to protect them om beg attacked for promotg gay Ansari sisted that LGBTQ upl would still be weled and accepted Qatar for the World Cup spe same-sex relatns remag crimalized the nservative Gulf Mn spoke Monday, Al Thani plaed to the ngrs that the issue of human rights was divertg attentn om the tournament. It meant tailg and unrstandg how and why LGBT+ people — and that bloody armband — beme one of the them of the here is a gay guy’s acunt of the past month, reportg the World Cup Qatar. Gianni Infanto speaks ntroversially ahead of the tournament (Photo: Christopher Lee/Getty Imag)Homosexual behavur is illegal Qatar, as is sex outsi of marriage, regardls of sexual orientatn, so some of what I am scribg may e as a surprise.

OPN: DR. NASSER ‘NAS’ MOHAMED SOUGHT ASYLUM THE US AFTER G OUT AS GAY. HERE’S WHAT HE WANTS PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT QATAR

“I go to a hook-up bee I crave pany and nnectn, even if is fleetg, ” says one gay man, whose inty is ncealed to protect his inty. The hostily is worse for those nsired feme, or trans, unrlg that so much about homophobia is unrpned by warped perceptns of the tournament, many Wtern journalists had obssed over whether men would be able to hold hands Doha.

Several gay men were rigned to unfulfilled personal liv, forced to marry women to su society, whether Qatar or neighbourg stat. One said he was prepared to set asi his own happs bee he feared his father would be stigmatised by his fay if he was known to have a gay person shared so many of the same terts as me. ”Brighton is often scribed as England’s gay pal, which mak the nversatn untentnally funny — to me, fd some mon ground: “It’s not somethg you n ntrol, ” he says.

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

Instead, was a multi-loured pattern that stopped short of clarg self as a statement relatg specifilly to LGBT+ people or gay rights Qatar. A 959-word statement on the English FA’s webse scribed the armband as a mpaign to “stop discrimatn” but did not mentn the words “gay” or “LGBT” relatn to the FA chief executive Mark Bullgham scribed the armband “as a visible show of support for cln football — somethg we strongly believe and have nsistently supported”. A few days later, Qatar World Cup ambassador and former ternatnal footballer Khalid Salman told a German broadster that to be gay is “haram”, meang forbidn said: “I am not a strict Mlim, but why is haram?

Harry Kane wearg the OneLove armband before the World Cup (Photo: Getty Imag)This was my first full day Doha and when I tweeted cricism of Infanto’s speech, people replied wh imag of a rabow flag flam, warngs to “shut the f*** up u gay peace (sic) of sh”, and I received direct msag tellg me to rot next 48 hours would set the tone for the rt of the tournament. ”FIFA would not ment formally but sourc, who wouldn’t speak on the rerd orr to protect their jobs, said that the OneLove opposn was “never anti-gay” but stead about remdg people of the regulatns to which they prevly signed up.