An effort by European soccer feratns to highlight gay rights uld force a llisn between FIFA l and social mpaigns.
Contents:
- SIX OUT OF 10 PEOPLE UK OPPOSE QATAR HOSTG WORLD CUP OVER ANTI-GAY LAWS
- FIFA CELEBRAT PRI, MONTHS BEFORE HOLDG WORLD CUP WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL
SIX OUT OF 10 PEOPLE UK OPPOSE QATAR HOSTG WORLD CUP OVER ANTI-GAY LAWS
There are reasons to skip the FIFA World Cup hosted by Qatar, cludg ncerns about human rights, gay rights and rptn. But if you do watch, here are rmal l on which untri to root for and why. * qatar world cup gay rules *
Homosexualy is exprsly banned Qatar, punishable by between one and three years prison. “A grave issue… which we n no longer keep silent about is the warm attu evint on many social works – pecially on Snapchat – towards homosexualy, ” Al-Mutawa’a has changed tack on the issue. In 2010, Sepp Blatter advised gay fans to “rea om any sexual activi” 2022.
Hostg the tournament is far more likely to be emed a tac acceptance of homophobia than an ductn to addrs may ed make some allowanc for the biggt sportg circ the world g to town.
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. Nasser Mohamed, a gay Qatari livg exile the US, explaed to Vox.
FIFA CELEBRAT PRI, MONTHS BEFORE HOLDG WORLD CUP WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL
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. 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.
“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.