What 's like to be gay and Qatari - Doha News | Qatar

Contents:

• GAY QATARIS PHYSILLY ABED THEN RECED AS AGENTS, MPAIGNER SAYS
• GAY LIFE QATAR
• DOHA - GAY LIFE - DOHA FOM
• OLR GAY MALE - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• FIRST OPENLY GAY QATARI SEEKS ASYLUM IN THE US
• GAY CAB CREW SECRETS OM THE MIDDLE EAST
• GAY DOHA TRAVEL GUI
• WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND QATARI

GAY QATARIS PHYSILLY ABED THEN RECED AS AGENTS, MPAIGNER SAYS

As the first and currently only Qatari to publicly e out as gay, Mohamed­—a doctor who has lived the U. But given homosexualy is crimalized Qatar, he is likely to rema s only member for the foreeable future.

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. TIME: As a gay Qatari, do you feel that hostg the World Cup n brg change?

GAY LIFE QATAR

Is there an unrground gay scene or is that too dangero? 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. But even the most powerful gay [person] Qatar is powerls some ways.

They uld gaybash and get away wh wh no nsequenc at all.

And if such an attack happens on a gay fan, I don’t know of the [secury] rourc to help them. Bee you uld be harmed, you n be gay bashed, you n be beaten, and people may not be able to help you. Gay Qataris have been promised safety om physil torture exchange for helpg the thori to track down other LGBTQ+ people the untry, a proment Qatari doctor and gay rights mpaigner has told the Nasser Mohamed, who liv the US but retas ntact wh hundreds of gay Qataris, said that some secret works had been promised after arrts by Qatar’s preventive secury partment.

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“A lot [of gay Qataris] don’t know about each other, ” Mohamed said. “Now there are agents the gay muny that were promised safety om physil torture exchange for workg for the preventive secury partment and helpg them fd groups of LGBTQ+ people. ”Mohamed told the Guardian that foreign gay fans Qatar would not be persecuted while at the World Cup fals tournament.

”Last month Human Rights Watch reported that Qatar’s preventive secury partment forc had arbrarily arrted lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people and subjected them to ill‑treatment tentn. Much like other small Gulf Stat the Arabian pensula fdg recent and -pth stori about gay life is not easy. The biggt public kerfluffle about homosexualy Qatar recent years has not ncerned any gay executns, wch hunts, persecutn or mands for gay marriage.

Completely overlookg the social impact of such a huge ternatnal event such a ty Islamic place as Qatar FIFA got self to hot water om human rights anizatns as well as gay rights associatns. The disptive issue was homosexualy. Very few are prepared to sudnly surrenr their sexual inty and stop beg gay for a week.

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However, homosexualy is illegal Qatar and n be punished wh lash and jail, which offends the progrsive agenda of rights groups the Wt.

It is unavoidable that a clash of cultur will occur; a llisn of east-vers-wt agast Qatar’s tightly bound sexual and social standards, both straight and gay. The UK gay football group, The Jt Campaign, as well as activist John Ameechi, said was eply ncerned: “spe their apparent mment to humanarian valu and the promotn of global solidary through football, FIFA is sendg out a msage loud and clear that the rights of the global LGBT muny do not even register on their agenda… Sport should never be allowed to tmp human rights. Some have lled upon Qatar to crimalize homosexualy by 2022.

FIRST OPENLY GAY QATARI SEEKS ASYLUM IN THE US

) by subsequent ments by the FIFA Print Sepp Blatter who tried to mimize the ncerns of the gay football fans worldwi by sayg that gays, to avoid trouble, should simply not have sex while Qatar: “homosexual fans should rea om any sexual activi that are illegal Qatar”.

In Febary 2011, UK PM Cameron was asked about awardg the World Cup to a homophobic untry that crimaliz homosexualy.

Meanwhile: Beg Gay Qatar. Simply put, if a foreigner wants to be openly gay Qatar his life will be very difficult (if not impossible).

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If they are gog to be gay private should not provoke any reactn. However, even if a gay person is most and discreet he (unlikely she) may be targeted by foul-md lol Qatari men for any number of reasons such as blackmail, money, sexual abe or relig enmy. For foreigners, beg sgle over the age of 30 is a spic cue; drsg wh some fashn, beg well groomed, sg at others, beg gentle and pole n be nsted as gay tras.

In the mid-2000’s a Fnish gay man was sced and eventually entrapped by a “geo” Qatari man who at first offered him alhol then hashish and eventually sex–“many tim”.

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One eveng another geo guy showed up wh him and thgs got out of hand and the expat found himself arrted–bee he was gay? Later I got to know that the police were all the time behd him, dictatg his actns, so I thk was bee of my gay orientatn I was arrted. That’s how much they hate –and not jt bee of gay sexualy; they envy and hate our eedom.

This mentary me om a rear of Gay Middle East Qatar about the lack of social support and absence of a gay muny. There are no gay plac here, except one, and my opn, we n’t say that ’s really gay bee ’s the only place where guys n enter whout girls, and a lot of straight guys go there as well.

Another big difference here is the lack of gay relatnships. And ’s not only love relatnships, but iendships are also rare Qatar among gays. “In Jordan, I knew many people and 90% of my iends were gay, but here, after a long time, I have succeed fdg only one gay iend whom I have met and stayed touch wh by the phone.

WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND QATARI

I thk that the the reason for this is the lack of gay plac Qatar.

I’m sure that if there were a gay fe and everyone went there every week, the bond between guys here would be stronger. ” (Neher of that would happen, but that’s the general reactn towards g out/beg gay.

“Deep down, I know he knows I’m gay, but neher of n adm .