Qatar

Qatari officials are taking anything that looks like a rainbow away from fans. They even confiscated a Brazilian state flag with a rainbow.

A planned pro-LGBTQ protest by European teams on Monday was squashed by soccer’s governing body.

Matt Walsh said he wants the US Men’s soccer team banished from America over the rainbow logo.

The rant came after the U.S. men’s World Cup soccer team expressed support for LGBTQ people in Qatar, where the penalty for being gay is death.

Homosexual acts are punishable by imprisonment and death in Qatar.

FIFA’s decision to hold the 2022 World Cup in Qatar has drawn protests from supporters of LGBTQ rights.

Qatar’s anti-LGBTQ policies are getting called out in the weeks before they host the World Cup.

“As a Spice Girl, it’s all about being who you are. That’s what the LGBTQ+ community can be. No two people are the same.”

The tweets have been brought to light two months before the World Cup is set to take place in Qatar.

Darion Minden urged the Qatar’s ambassador to abolish the Middle Eastern country’s draconian penalties against homosexuality.

As the LGBTQ landscape rapidly changes across Africa and the Middle East, new leaders continue to emerge. These leaders are helping to create a world where love is love, no matter where you live.

Sex outside of marriage and homosexuality are both illegal in the country. FIFA ignored the outcry from the LGBTQ community. Now it’s too late.

“Do I feel comfortable here? I would not say I do. But it’s not my choice to be here. The sport has taken the choice to be here.”

Being gay is “a dangerous ideology and it’s becoming nasty and people are not ashamed of it anymore,” he said during a two-minute televised rant.

Angelina Jolie says she doesn’t understand how people could be so “ignorant.”

Specifically calling out Qatar, host of the next World Cup, the Olympic diver stated, “I think it should not be allowed for a sporting event to host in a country that criminalizes… basic human rights.”

“I’m not afraid of the consequences. I feel like I’m well protected.”

A gay youth is arrested and interrogated about the murder of a young woman in “Crime in Ramallah.”

Why is J.Lo performing for a company with ties to slave labor and until recently required women to seek corporate approval to marry?

“It’s not a happy and healthy gay-for-all,” he writes, “but it’s not being thrown off tall buildings either.”