Everyone welcome? Gay football fans prepare for Qatar

DOHA: World Cup 2022 host Qatar has given the clearest indication yet that LGBT fans will be welcome, engaging with gay supporters as it hosts the Club World Cup - despite criminalising homosexuality.

The head of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Nasser al-Khater says"any fan, of any gender, orientation, religion, race rest assured that Qatar is one of the most safe countries in the world - and they'll all be welcome here". Advertisement"There was clearly some apprehension, indeed my husband said on the eve of flying that he wished he had not agreed to go," the 50-year-old council worker wrote in a report for Kop Outs that he shared with AFP.

Openly LGBT players are well represented in the English women's game however, with former Lionesses captain, the defender Casey Stoney, the best known. Amann said that"if people basically observe the no PDA advice, then I can't see them being necessarily identifiable". "We are living in a society where gay people are not recognised yet. Being gay is haram to their religion," said a gay barman from the Philippines living in the conservative Muslim country who spoke on condition of anonymity.He shared a commonly held fear that police monitor gay apps and periodically deport homosexuals - although there is limited evidence for this.

"No one should be detained because of who they love," said group member Elina Steinerte, a Latvian human rights expert.A gay choreographer visiting Qatar from South Africa described the country as"challenging".

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