“It is a constant onslaught, and it is killing me,” Majid al-Qatari, wrote in Doha News last week.

Homophobia

“It is very jarring living here, it is traumatising to see that you are the cause of your parents’ anguish, that you are shaming your family.”

Al-Qatari – not his real name – was writing about his experience of being gay in Qatar, a country where homosexuality is illegal. In the moving short essay, he describes living in the shadows, rejected by society and losing hope for a meaningful future ( read Majid’s story here).

Now his story has garnered more than 6,000 shares – and it’s prompted a significant backlash. Many in Qatar have attacked the article and its author on Twitter, arguing that gay relationships are illegal and not socially accepted in the country.

Read more at www.albawaba.com

Qatar is known to be a very homophobic society, even the government and police are hunting on the LGBT people. Qatar is one of the worst places in the world to be a LGBT person. So next time you thinking of using Qatar Airlines or visiting Qatar – think about Majid al-Qatari – do you want to support state funded homophobia ? these kind of regime only understand money talk.

We admire and hails a brave person with the name Majid al-Qatari – you are inspiration for us and others in the LGBT community around the world.

Photo By אנדר-ויק (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons

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