Some LGBTQ Fans Skip Qatar FIFA World Cup, Fearing Hostility

At first, Saskia Nino de Rivera was excited about going to Qatar for a FIFA World Cup that would mark a significant professional event for her partner, a sports agent for Mexico football players.

She even contemplated privately proposing there during a game, and posting photos once they left the country, voanews.com reports.

But as the lesbian couple learned more about laws on same-sex relations in the conservative Gulf country, the plans no longer sounded like a good idea. Instead, Nino de Rivera proposed at an Amsterdam stadium this summer and opted to skip the World Cup altogether.

«As a lesbian woman, it’s really hard for me to feel and think that we are going to a country where we don’t know what could happen and how we could be safe», she said. «It was a really hard decision».

FIFA are known to be a homophobic organisation and don’t care at all about human rights, it’s only language they understand, is money! FIFA don’t care about the human right violations in Qatar. It’s well know that FIFA is a corrupt organisation, so Qatar paid to get FIFA World Cup 2022 – just watch the Netflix docuseries FIFA Uncovered.