A leadg gay Mlim activist feels the Orlando massacre has "shattered the notn of safety for the gay and Mlim muni." And that notn, he says, "has been shattered on multiple levels" for LGBT Mlims.
Contents:
- GAY SOMALI REFUGE FACE ATH THREATS
- ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
- GAY SOMALI REFUGE FACE ATH THREATS
GAY SOMALI REFUGE FACE ATH THREATS
Disver Toronto’s bt gay bars, queer events and LGBTQ culture wh Andrew Murphy, programmg director of the Insi Out LGBT Film Ftival. * head of lgbt toronto somali *
Cold se murrs of gay men and regular bathhoe raids throughout the 70s and 80s put members of the muny at odds wh police. It jt unrsr what we already know about how particular people are actively targeted for neglect – this clus health equi LGBTQ2S+ and QTBIPOC muni, human rights ab agast gay and lbian muni around the world, and the epimic of vlence agast Black trans women. Hassan remembers watchg his iend was 2013, and Hassan’s 25-year-old iend had jt told his fay that he was gay.
On the one hand, homophobia and transphobia plague the Somali-Amerin muny. Theirs are all stori of rilience, and of fdg strength each other amidst wav of terviewee stood outsi a popular gay bar Mneapolis and saw gay whe men ll Somali taxi drivers “goatfuckers”.
It’s expected, ” Hassan said of homophobia and transphobia his Somali-Amerin muny. Even though Mneapolis’ LGBTQ muny is large and visible, many of the dividuals terviewed for this piece say has largely met them wh hostily – an extensn of the overt racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia boilg the US at asked about LGBTQ Somali-Amerins beg further tegrated wh Mnota’s larger LGBTQ muny, Michelle, a 29-year-old Somali gay woman who me to Mnota seven years ago, said: “I don’t really foree that happeng this untry.
ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
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”“We have now a suatn that tells that we are not Amerin, overtly, ” said Hse, a 24-year-old gay Somali-Amerin man. “In Somalia, [gay people] only exist social media, not real life, ” said Ali, a 28-year-old gay Somali-Amerin man. He me to Mneapolis several years ago wh his parents, who do not know he is gay and routely prsure him to get married.
I don’t thk I n have that nversatn wh them bee of how they view homosexual people.
GAY SOMALI REFUGE FACE ATH THREATS
* head of lgbt toronto somali *
”“[Homophobia] is eply woven to our culture, and ’s eply woven to ntemporary terpretatns of Islam, ” Hassan said. “At the same time that Islam is a eply homophobic relign, there is an credible amount of muny and nnectedns that helps facilate.
I know might be kd of hard to terpret, but if I believed God a ltle b more, I thk that homophobia, for me, would be a small enough price to pay to still be a part of that muny. It igned a three-week anti-gay crackdown by the thori, which Hegazi was the only woman arrted. Fearg her eventual prosecutn as an openly gay woman a untry that routely targets and charg s gay cizens wh crim of bchery and blasphemy, Hegazi fled to Canada shortly Syria, he lived secret.
Nairobi, Kenya – Gay, lbian and HIV-fected refuge om Somalia are facg persecutn – and even the threat of ath – should they return home.