American reporter Grant was wearing a rainbow T-shirt to watch the game, but was asked by stadium security to take off his clothes.

(The picture is taken from Grant Twitter)

[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] The 2022 Qatar World Cup is in full swing. The United States and Wales played against each other on the 21st local time, and finally shook hands 1:1.

Former Sports Illustrated writer Grant (Grant Wahl) said that when he was going to the stadium to watch the US team's first game, he did not expect that he was wearing a rainbow T-shirt in solidarity with the LGBTQ (gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) community. , was asked to take off his T-shirt by the stadium security staff.

According to a Reuters report, due to Qatar's ban on homosexuality and other LGBTQ groups, the anti-human rights controversy has attracted worldwide attention.

And Grant complained that when he was wearing a T-shirt with a rainbow printed on it to watch the game, the stadium personnel refused to let him in, asked him to take off the T-shirt, and told him that he had to change because of the T-shirt. T-shirts "are not allowed here".

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Grant tweeted about the incident shortly after a guard took his phone away and detained him for nearly half an hour.

A security guard told Grant that his clothes had "political connotations" and could not be worn inside the arena, while refusing to return Grant's cell phone.

After a long stalemate between the two sides, a senior security officer in charge of on-site security walked up to Grant, apologized to him and allowed him to enter the venue. The two also shook hands.

Grant mentioned: "I was told by the security guards that they just wanted to protect me from being hurt by other fans in the stadium. They might hurt me because I wore this T-shirt. A representative of (FIFA) came to apologize to me."

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