The official fictn, Brian Whaker explas, is that gay people don’t exist the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, attus of fay and society are a bigger problem than fear of beg persecuted
Contents:
- LIKE MANY GAY MLIM PEOPLE, I HAVE NO FAH PRI
- GAY, MLIM AND PROUD: LONDONERS ON KEEPG THEIR FAH THE PAL
- EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
LIKE MANY GAY MLIM PEOPLE, I HAVE NO FAH PRI
Parents have been prottg over relatnship tn, sayg is patible wh their relig valu. Where do the row leave gay Mlims? * lgbt muslim london *
Amanullah De Sondy, a lecturer ntemporary Islam at Universy College Cork, has wrten about homosexualy Islam.
GAY, MLIM AND PROUD: LONDONERS ON KEEPG THEIR FAH THE PAL
As the world stggl to procs the attack at LGBT nightclub Pulse Orlando, gay Londoners om a Mlim background share their imprsns of Sunday and what means for the future * lgbt muslim london *
”Theologilly, he pots out, is the story of Lot that is often poted to as the basis for homosexualy beg forbidn Islam, but he argu this is a misunrstandg of the s the story is highlightg – which is rape, not nsensual sex. ” And he worri that the parents are not nsirg “that one of those children at the school uld be gay. Transgenr drag queen“When I went to sendary school, sectn 28 [a legal clse, sce repealed, that said lol thori should not “promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship] was very much force.
My parents took me to see my GP, not out of malice, but bee they didn’t unrstand what meant to be gay.
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
’ Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian‘I would cry on my prayer g: “Give me ncer or anythg.