Ireland has not qualified for the ongoing 2022 World Cup in Qatar, which is taking place amid concerns about human rights abuses and the country's treatment of members of the LGBTQ+ community. Are we better off?
SAO PAULO – A journalist covering the football World Cup in Qatar on Tuesday (Nov 22) said local police hassled him outside a stadium after a regional Brazilian flag was mistaken for an LGBTQ pride flag. Brazilian Victor Pereira said authorities seized his phone after he recorded a man's negative reaction to Pereira's colourful flag of Brazil's northeastern Pernambuco state,.
The Foreign Secretary claims Qatar has made progress in ensuring gay football fans are safe despite growing criticism over the Gulf state s repressive response to rainbow-themed attire.
The journalist recorded a video on his phone of a man dressed in traditional white snatching the mistaken flag and stomping on it, but authorities ordered him to delete the video.
Two Brazilian women and a journalist were left in shock following World Cup game Tuesday when a man wearing in a white traditional dress mistook a regional flag for a LGBTQ symbol and step on it.