Naomi Campbell shared a sweet mother-daughter moment with her followers. On Sunday, the 51-year-old model posted two photos on her Instagram page, showing her and her daughter walking together in a grassy field.
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A 35-year-old doctor, who has become the first Qatari to come out publicly as gay, has sought asylum in the United States. Nas Mohamed, who is currently living and working as a physician in San Francisco, said he no longer wished to remain “anonymous”. Mohamed said that it was not safe for him to return to Qatar and live his life as an out gay man. Qatar’s human rights record and its treatment of LGBTQI people have come under the spotlight after the country was selected to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Qatar ranks at the 143rd position out of 150 countries on the LGBTQ+ travel safety index. Homosexuality is illegal in Qatar, which criminalises “sodomy” and “sexual intercourse between persons of the same sex”. Under its Penal Code, gay men can be punished with a prison term of up to seven years and fines.
The country also implements the Islamic Sharia law. Muslim gay men can face death by stoning, though there is no known case of the sentence having been imposed in recent times. A 2020 US State Department report said that “there were no public reports of violence against LGBTI persons, who largely hid their sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex characteristics due to an underlying pattern of discrimination toward LGBTI persons.”Nas told The Independent that there were a “lot of gay people in Qatar”.
Nas said he grew up in an “extremely religious” society and found he liked boys during his teens. However, he could not come out or confide in anyone while growing up in a place where “male, macho, righteous and misogynistic culture” was celebrated. Nas revealed that there were gay conversion therapy centres in Qatar. Nas revealed that it was during a trip as a medical student to Las Vegas in his 20s that he first
.Naomi Campbell shared a sweet mother-daughter moment with her followers. On Sunday, the 51-year-old model posted two photos on her Instagram page, showing her and her daughter walking together in a grassy field.
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