RAINBOW WORLD “I’m the world’s only out LGBTQ Qatari”
knew I was different at 11 but was raised Muslim in very rural Qatar — a village of 5,000 with no internet access and absolutely no LGBTQ visibility. I couldn’t even imagine dating or having sex. I heard awful stories about persecution when you even try to do that: undercover cops setting up hookups to arrest people, for example. When I was very
