Unfortunately for you and our other LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) brothers and sisters, you are born to one of the most hetero-male domated culture ever. And we thought our liv as straight men or women were tough?
Contents:
- A GAY MAN’S STGGLE FOR ACCEPTANCE THE SIKH MUNY
- GAY DATG PUNJAB
- GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT
- CAN A MLIM BE GAY?
- SHEP SGH: “I WANT TO ASSURE OTHER YOUNG QUEER SIKHS THAT ONE COULD BE GAY AND SIKH”
- GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
A GAY MAN’S STGGLE FOR ACCEPTANCE THE SIKH MUNY
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While Sikhism has no teachgs on sexual orientatn, and neher do the holy book, the Gu Granth Sahib, refer to homosexualy, some gay Sikhs feel their culture is prejudiced agast them, says Kulj.
GAY DATG PUNJAB
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Kulj now leads group therapy ssns for Sikh men and women who stggle wh their inty and says: "Punjabi culture's attu towards homosexualy remas an jtice" and eded by Ben Moore and Ey FordProduced by Mreet Kr.
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GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT
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20 years and many difficult nversatns later, most of Merchant's fay has e to accept his sexualy, though he says some of his relativ still stggle to fully embrace him as a gay LGBT Mlim Amerins have not gotten nearly the kd of support Merchant has worked so hard to enjoy, and stead rema closeted for fear of social stigma and faial seems to have been the se wh Omar Mateen, a Mlim man, who killed 49 people when he opened fire on a gay nightclub Orlando last month.
The attack may have been motivated by ner turmoil, acrdg to Mateen's ex-wife who said that he had "gay tennci. Merchant never felt that his fah was at odds wh his sexualy, part bee of a long tradn of acuntg for homosexual and homoerotic relatnships by the 13th and 14th century Islamic mystil poets Rumi and Hafiz, whose work he was exposed to om an early Rumi, Right: Hafiz"Rumi was always lurkg the background, " Merchant said.
CAN A MLIM BE GAY?
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"It exprs so betifully, so simply, so eternally what I feel about Islam and homosexualy, " Merchant said.
A week after the Orlando shootg, Merchant read that poem at a board meetg for the Mlim Public Affairs Council, a civil rights anizatn, after talkg about his own experienc as a gay him, the attack was a ll to redouble his missn "to nvce gay people that Mlims are not the enemy and to nvce Mlims that gay people are not the enemy. Dpe fears that his sexual orientatn might e his loved on to feel shame, Merchant said he has never felt that beg gay was at odds wh beg a Mlim.
"Given the prevalence of such queer perspectiv and homosexual referenc by poets like Bulleh Shah and Rumi who are often revered as sats, 's hugely ironic that LGBTQ Mlims around the world stggle to live out their sexual and genr some level, many Mlims accept that there was a ep love exprsed om one man to another--few women wrote this sort of poetry-- Islamic mysticism.
SHEP SGH: “I WANT TO ASSURE OTHER YOUNG QUEER SIKHS THAT ONE COULD BE GAY AND SIKH”
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" Siar arguments have been ma about other Islamic mystil poets, even though homosexual relatnships and all male brothels were mon across Central and South long history of same-sex love among Islamic mystics, is, acrdg to Zafer, "fely beg effaced. "Zafer and other historians attribute much of the vrlic homophobia the Middle East and South Asia to the lonial enunter, which forced European notns of genr and sexualy onto people who accepted that such inti and relatnships were far more fluid.
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"The progrsive, middle class, English-speakg, and urban muni" are often the least acceptg of homosexualy the Mlim world, Zafer said, "bee they've adopted a totally different set of norms. " The nial of a rich history of homosexual relatnships has given rise to extreme homophobia wh many Mlim muni.
GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
Even though 's not unmon to see men walkg arm--arm Amman or noodlg Karachi, outright same-sex relatnships are often rigidly only openly gay imam the Uned Stat says he refers Mlims stgglg wh rencilg their sexualy and their fah not jt to the Quran--where he fds no outright prohibns on homosexualy--but also to Islam's poetic tradns.