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
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. ”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.
GAY, MLIM AND PROUD: LONDONERS ON KEEPG THEIR FAH THE PAL
* lgbt muslim london *
” 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 Transgenr drag queen“When I went to sendary school, sectn 28 [a legal clse, sce repealed, that said lol thori should not “promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship] was very much force.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.
’ Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian‘I would cry on my prayer g: “Give me ncer or anythg.
By sayg that they have disunted gay Mlims and closed the doors of gay spac to and that means we have nowhere to go.
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
So there are two sis, the Brish-born people who want to keep quiet and safe, and then people who are sperately fleeg opprsn for their genr, and sexualy, who sperately need everyone to see that they are very obvly gay. What udon noodl and ntactls payment have ever done to end homophobia will forever rema a the surface, London Pri celebrat the cy as a place of LGBT equaly.
The relatnship between gay equaly and good bs even domat Pri London’s blog such, Pri feels much more like an o to palism than a fight for actual civil rights. When wtern palism is pated as a haven for gay rights, I experience a ictn between the Mlim and queer parts of my inty.
This is particularly sensive a ntext where, for stance, a large number of gay men Paris voted for Mare Le Pen 2017, persuad by her rhetoric that Islam was a threat to civic last year’s Pri saw s fair share of Islamophobia, wh groups holdg plards readg “Fuck Islam”, wh some specifilly damng the East London lol mosque. And while the treatment of LGBT people remas dire many Mlim untri, this ant secularism mut the fact that many queer Mlims also hope to march at Pri, and that a majory of Mlims nmn homophobia (the East London mosque notably mpaigned agast homophobic hate stickers the lol borough, Tower Hamlets).