Joe White a co-founder of the Three Lions Pride fans’ group has called on football’s governing bodies to provide more than ‘woolly words’ for LGBTQ+ supporters heading to the World Cup.
Joe, 28, told Metro.co.uk that it would be ‘abhorrent’ if LGBTQ+ fans were forced to remain at home because of intolerance in the wealthy Gulf state, where same sex relations between men are illegal.fan called on the governing authorities to provide more than ‘soundbites’ intended to reassure fans that the games will be ‘for everyone’.the Commerce and Industry Ministry seized ‘un-Islamic’ children’s toys and other items bearing rainbow colours.
Joe said: ‘One of the issues is personal safety, and as much as the woolly words from the FA, FIFA and Qatar say it’s going to be a World Cup for everybody, there has been no concrete action to show it’s going to be safe for anybody who’s LGBTQ+ and in particularly trans. ‘Qatar is rated as one of the worst places in the world for LGBTQ+ people and there is the moral issue of whether you will make life worse for LGBTQ+ Qataris or if there is anything positive you can do.
It has been reported that the offence could also result in the death penalty under Sharia law, from which legislation is derived, although there are no recorded examples of this happening. ‘I think there will be issues with unfurling the rainbow colours, especially in public outside the stadiums,’ they said. ‘I would feel far safer inside the stadiums than outside.’
‘We want to work with LGBTQ+ Qataris and see ultimately what they want. We only went to the World Cup in Russia because LGBTQ+ people there asked us to help them be visible and, even on a micro-scale, we had such positive interactions.
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