Gay people livg unr radar Qatar prepare warily for World Cup | Rters

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• AS QATAR BE FOC OF LGBTQ MPAIGNS, WHERE ELSE THE WORLD IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY?
• QATAR HAS TAKEN 'REAL STEPS' FOR SAFETY OF GAY FANS, SAYS FOREIGN SECRETARY
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• GAY PEOPLE LIVG UNR RADAR QATAR PREPARE WARILY FOR WORLD CUP
• GAY LIFE QATAR
• WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND QATARI
• 70 COUNTRI WHERE IT'S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE

AS QATAR BE FOC OF LGBTQ MPAIGNS, WHERE ELSE THE WORLD IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY?

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.

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.

(Beit) – Qatar Preventive Secury Department forc have arbrarily arrted lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and subjected them to ill-treatment tentn, Human Rights Watch said today. A Qatari gay man who has experienced ernment reprsn, cludg arbrary arrt, said that secury forc surveilled and arrted him based on his onle activy.

QATAR HAS TAKEN 'REAL STEPS' FOR SAFETY OF GAY FANS, SAYS FOREIGN SECRETARY

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. Homosexualy is prohibed by Qatari law, and n lead to seven years is taboo the untry, and g out public is unthkable for the vast doctor Nas Mohammed earlier this year took the pletely unique cisn to e out to the media and publicly say that he is gay, to show the world that there are ed gay people Qatar, and to raise awarens of the suatn now that the world's spotlight is on the untry ahead of the football World Cup the untry later this year.

"The Proud Maroons" will help highlight how different is for LGBTQ people large parts of the rt of the world pared to how is Qatar, says Mohammed a prs to ntribute to velopmentNas Mohammed himself has not been to Qatar sce g out as gay, and the prs release the group scrib how unique is that they are a supporter's club that nnot have any members their they wre that they hope that this way they n help wh velopment the untry.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

"The Proud Maroons" was created to shed light on the persecutn of LGBTQ people Qatar, and highlight what is happeng beyond the temporary PR msage that says "gay fans are wele, " they wre.

ARCHIVE: See the report wh Nas Mohammed:Javascript is disabledJavascript mt be enabled to play vioRead more about browser supportReport: Gay Qatari Nas Mohammed hop for help om David Beckham. Homosexualy is illegal Qatar, punishable by up to seven years prison, and the furore surroundg the natn's polici towards gay people has only creased sce the amid reports that players were banned om speakg out or monstratg agast anti-gay laws while supporters the stands had rabow-loured garments Qatar is by no means the only untry where beg gay uld land you prison - or worse. Homosexualy is still prohibed 69 untri acrdg to both the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) and Erasg 76 Crim, a media anisatn dited to monorg LGBTQ rights across the world.

GAY PEOPLE LIVG UNR RADAR QATAR PREPARE WARILY FOR WORLD CUP

And the ath penalty is still applied several Ain and Asian untri, most recently Iran where two women LGBTQ rights activists were sentenced to ath September on charg of promotg, MailOnle breaks down where beg gay uld st you your life, or nfe you to a cell for years of . Homosexualy is illegal Qatar, punishable by up to seven years prison, and the furore surroundg the natn's polici towards gay people has only creased sce the tournament (streaker rri LGBTQ pri flag onto the pch Qatar, Nov.

Around 30 Ain untri currently have bans place on homosexualy, wh most applyg stiff prison sentenc or even pal Somalia and Mrania, those found guilty of sleepg wh people of the same sex n be given the ath sentence. Conversely, 13 Ain untri cludg the Ivory Coast, Mali, Rwanda and Niger never crimalised homosexualy and several more have crimalised recent years.

The island natn of Sao Tome & Prcipe is the most recent Ain terrory to remove legal rtrictns for gay people, havg done so earlier this year.

GAY LIFE QATAR

File pic: LGBTQ activists gather for the lg on whether to uphold or nullify law banng gay sex, outsi the Milimani high Court Nairobi, Kenya May 24, 2019. A startlg total of seven untri n still technilly impose the ath penalty on homosexuals unr Sharia law - Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Sdi Arabia, Uned Arab Emirat and Yemen - though several of the terrori pal punishment for homosexualy has not been meted, Yemen and Sdi Arabia however ntue to execute people found to be homosexuals.

In Afghanistan, where gay men were stoned to ath unr the first Taliban regime om 1996 to 2001, the returng fundamentalists have aga outlawed homosexual relatns but have not specified how LGBTQ people would be punished. Beyond the natns where pal punishment is a threat, Malaysia stands out as one of the most opprsive plac as homosexualy rri a prison sentence of up to 20 years.

WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND QATARI

But around half of the untri Asia have crimalised homosexualy sce the 1950s, wh six plac - Cambodia, Indonia, Laos, the Koreas and Vietnam never havg crimalised to beg wh. A woman wrapped the rabow flag is seen at the Pk Dot rally, Sgapore's annual gay pri rally, at a park Sgapore July 1, 2017South Ameri and The Caribbean All of South Ameri is LGBTQ-iendly, at least law. However, there remas a small ntgent of plac where homosexualy is still punishable by huge prison nvicted of homosexualy Barbados and Guyana n be hand a life sentence - although the law Barbados is not enforced and thori have discsed repealg the law and grantg some protectns for same-sex upl.

Homosexualy remas illegal Domi, Grenada, Jamai, Sat Lucia, and Sat Vcent & the Grenad and is punishable wh a maximum sentence of between 10-15 years, though the law is rarely Kts and Nevis and Antigua recently led the law agast homosexualy was unnstutnal.

70 COUNTRI WHERE IT'S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

27, 2022Europe and North AmeriHomosexualy is legal every untry Europe and North Ameri, wh Wtern Europe particular wily seen as one of the most tolerant plac for LGBTQ people to micro-state of San Maro was the last state Europe to legalise homosexualy, havg done so 2004, but most European untri had already removed any bans on gay sex prr to the turn of the 21st ILGA claims that three European untri - Belgium, Malta and Luxembourg - are at the foreont of promotg gay rights and there are still several terrori Europe where, though homosexualy is legal, LGBTQ people face nsirable dispari terms of their than a dozen European natns cludg Armenia, Geia, Belas, Moldova and Poland do not regnise any kd of same-sex North Ameri, Canada crimalised homosexualy 1969, but the procs the US was far more plex. The state of Illois removed s legal ban on gay sex as early as 1962, but would be 41 more years before the Supreme Court crimalised homosexualy across the untry.

MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE

OceaniaHomosexualy is legal the majory of Oceania, though the liftg of bans on gay sex me the later stag of the 20th century and the 2000s.

Sgapore's parliament this week chose to repeal s Brish lonial-era law which ma homosexualy illegal - though did rerce s nstutnal fns of marriage which damaged the prospect of Sgaporeans obtag equal marriage rights the future. In 2018, India's Supreme Court stck down a rarely-enforced statute also troduced by the Brish more than 150 years earlier that crimalised gay sex and threatened people nsensual same-sex relatnships wh up to a urt went further on November 25, when agreed to hear a se brought by a gay uple seekg equal maral rights. Lotho, Mozambique, the Seychell and Angola are among those to have crimalised homosexualy while nearly a dozen other untri had never banned the first are LGBTQ rights beg rolled back?

As tolerance spreads across the globe, a handful of untri have gone the other way, choosg to buck the trend towards endg the persecutn of LGBTQ people by implementg new, reprsive Rsia, homosexualy was nsired a crime up to 1993 and a mental illns until 1999. After 20 years of progrs, lawmakers turned back the clock 2013 by approvg a law punishg gay 'propaganda' among November 24, Mosw extend that le to adults, wh lawmakers unanimoly approvg a bill banng all forms of LGBTQ 'propaganda' Hungary, a law passed 2021 bans any ntent that is seen as promotg homosexualy or genr change schools. Four transgenr women, one bisexual woman and one gay man were reportedly imprisoned whout charge, legal unsel, or trial, and forced to sign pledg promisg they would “cease immoral activy”.

Chebbak polely did not engage wh a qutn that mentned Benza as the first player at a senr tournament to play hijab, stead directg her answer towards the sense of rponsibily the team feels to achieve a rult at this World Cup and the spiratn they felt watchg the Morocn men’s team upset teams like Spa and Portugal a tense moment, a prenter for BBC World Service asked Chebbak if there are any gay players the squad given is illegal Moroc to have a same-sex relatnship. Image source, PA MediaQatar has taken "real steps" to ensure the safety of gay fans attendg the World Cup, Foreign Secretary Jam Cleverly has Cleverley told the BBC he had had "difficult nversatns" wh Qatari unterparts and had been clear how serly the UK tak the build-up to the tournament has seen ncerns raised over LGBT as well as broar human rights Qatar.