When founder of Osra Medical, Dr. Nas Mohamed, arrived in the United States in 2011, he didn’t have a community. He came with a medical degree, a poem in Arabic tattooed on his skin, and a truth he had spent a whole life protecting.

What he didn’t have was a place where that truth could live in the open. San Francisco became that place.

This city gave him a home when he could no longer return to the one he was born into. It gave him patients who trusted him, neighbors who showed up for him, and a community that taught him what it looks like when love is the default setting instead of the exception.

Dr Nas said, “When I came out publicly in 2022 as the first person from Qatar ever to do so, it was San Francisco that held me steady through everything that followed.”

So this June, as the World Cup arrives in the Bay Area, we want to say it loud:

Love is You.
Love is San Francisco.
Love is Kickoff.
Love is the Goal.

Dr. Nas founded Osra Medical in 2019 because he believes everyone deserves care without fear—sexual health care without judgment, mental health care without retaliation, a doctor who sees the whole person. “Osra” means family in Arabic. This practice is the family he built, and this city filled our waiting room with love.

In 2022, Dr. Nas founded the Alwan Foundation to fight for LGBTQ+ people in the Gulf region—people protecting their truth the way he once protected his own. Alwan’s research has been cited in human rights reporting and is now used as evidence in asylum cases like the one that saved his and many others’ lives.

Four years ago, the World Cup was held in his birth country, where being who you are is a crime. When Dr. Nas came out on a global stage, it was because LGBTQ+ Qataris were being talked about as if they didn’t exist.

Now the tournament comes to his new home — the city that proved a different world is possible.

The contrast is the message. During the 2026 World Cup, our Love Is The Goal campaign invites people everywhere to connect with the soul of a human being rather than a perception of them.

Here in San Francisco, that starts with celebration.

On Saturday, June 13, from 4:00 to 10:00 PM, this starts with holding a space at the San Francisco Mint. Dr. Nas says, “I worked with local artists and producers Natasha Koral, Phili Grasso and Simon Tam to recreate the moment I witnessed my own truth.”

Every step will carry the phrase “Love Is You” in a different language. With music, dancing, and the sunset filming of the video for “Let Your Love Shine,” the new song Dr. Nas recorded with Billboard all-star Debby Holiday, written by Dr. Nas with Simon Tam, we will recreate the moment Dr. Nas chose to protect his truth—and share his story so others could tell their stories.

Any human who wants to love and be loved welcome.

Other ways to take part

Listen to “Let Your Love Shine“:

YouTube
Spotify
iTunes / Apple Music

Pick up Love Is The Goal merchandise at alwanfoundation.org, with proceeds benefiting the Alwan Foundation’s work.

Follow the campaign on Instagram and share with the hashtags #LoveIsTheGoal and #ProudMaroons.

“And if you’re looking for care from a practice built on everything this city taught me — we’re here.

San Francisco loved me first. This month, I get to love it back.”

— Dr. Nas