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.
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- FIFA CELEBRAT PRI, MONTHS BEFORE HOLDG WORLD CUP WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL
- 'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
- JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’
- FIFA MT STAND UP FOR GAY RIGHTS
FIFA CELEBRAT PRI, MONTHS BEFORE HOLDG WORLD CUP WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL
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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. Sce beg award the World Cup hostg rights 2010, nservative Mlim Qatar has faced cricism of s treatment of low-paid migrant workers as well as s crimalizatn of homosexualy.
Gurchaten Sandhu, of the Geneva-based Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, said that FIFA put “athlet a very, very awkward” posn. He also took issue wh Infanto’s fense of Qatar on Saturday, durg which he lectured Europeans who have cricized the emirate’s human rights rerd and said he “felt” gay, like a woman and a like a migrant worker.
'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
FIFA Print Gianni Infanto raised eyebrows on Saturday when he attempted to show empathy wh margalised groups by tellg reporters Qatar 'I feel gay ... I feel like a migrant worker'. * gay rights fifa *
“You don’t feel gay. You are gay, ” Sandhu said.
JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’
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.” * gay rights fifa *
18 Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal, wh imprisonment of up to three years prison and the possibily of the ath penalty (“Penalti vary Qatar, wh the maximum beg stong to ath. Item: The private publishg partner of The New York Tim, Dar Al Sharq, has repeatedly removed articl the ternatnal prt edn of The New York Tim published Qatar related to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr rights, Human Rights Watch reports.
Item: “Some of the Welsh natnal football team’s staff will not travel to the World Cup Qatar bee of the untry’s stance on gay rights, ” the BBC reported. “Head of Welsh football Noel Mooney said the team would e the event as a ‘platform’ to discs human rights Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal.
Twenty other hotels said they would acmodate them as long as they did not publicly show that they were gay, and 33 hotels had no problem wh bookg same-sex upl. DEBORAH AMOS, BYLINE: Homosexualy is illegal Qatar. Reports on gay rights the ternatnal media are censored, says Dr.
FIFA MT STAND UP FOR GAY RIGHTS
He rells knowg for sure he was gay at a medil nference the U. This year, he started speakg out publicly, apparently the first Qatari to speak so openly about beg gay. When asked about the wele for gay fans, the embassy rponds, we wele everybody.
Youn says this language is a signal to Qataris who might wave a rabow flag or post support for LGBTQ rights on social media durg the Those dividuals will fely face the risk of arrt bee the Qatari ernment has surveillance pabili that allows to track dividuals and persecute them after the World Cup is over and the ternatnal attentn Youn says Nasser Mohammed is a voice om the regn, unterg claims that gay rights are jt a Wtern import. 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. So ’s really hard to build a gay muny.