A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans.
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WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN
Qatar’s laws agast gay sex and treatment of LGBTQ people are flashpots ahead of the first FIFA World Cup soccer petn to be held the Middle East. * gay fans world cup *
“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.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
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.
Some have been mullg whether to attend the tournament, or even watch on ’s laws agast gay sex and treatment of LGBTQ people are flashpots the n-up to the first World Cup to be held the Middle East, or any Arab or Mlim untry. Wh his untry facg cricism over a number of issu, Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim b Hamad Al Thani, recently argued “has been subjected to an unprecented mpaign” that no host untry has ever ambassador for the World Cup Qatar, however, has scribed homosexualy as a “damage the md” an terview wh German public broadster ZDF. Aired this week, the ments by former Qatari natnal team player Khalid Salman highlighted ncerns about the nservative untry’s treatment of gays and LGBTQ rights activists are seizg the moment to draw attentn, wh a heightened sense of urgency, to the ndns of LGBTQ cizens and rints Qatar.