{"id":6762,"date":"2022-11-17T01:13:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/world-cup-gay-welsh-footballers-on-why-theyre-going-to-qatar\/"},"modified":"2022-11-17T01:13:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T01:13:11","slug":"world-cup-gay-welsh-footballers-on-why-theyre-going-to-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/world-cup-gay-welsh-footballers-on-why-theyre-going-to-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup: Gay Welsh footballers on why they&#8217;re going to Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Wales women football captain Jess Fishlock says she will travel to Qatar for this month&#8217;s World Cup despite concerns over the country&#8217;s human rights record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Homosexuality is illegal in Qatar because it is considered immoral under Islamic Sharia law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Qatari government has assured LGBTQ+ visitors that they will be welcome at the tournament though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-61842754\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">many fans have decided not to travel<\/a> to the Gulf state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">But Fishlock said it was important to her &#8220;as a gay athlete to be visible&#8221; at such a  major sporting event in the hope of sparking debate about potential change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-63657187?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales women football captain Jess Fishlock says she will travel to Qatar for this month&#8217;s World Cup despite concerns over the country&#8217;s human rights record. Homosexuality is illegal in Qatar because it is considered immoral under Islamic Sharia law. The Qatari government has assured LGBTQ+ visitors that they will be welcome at the tournament though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[1800,3142,3825,467,4501,1094,510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6764,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions\/6764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}