For many LGBT Mlims, g out of the closet to their fai and relig muni n be a ght cisn. One Mlim lear says she receiv lls regularly om young gay and lbian Mlims who are aaid to reveal their sexual inty.
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IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
I felt ee to be who I am, a gay man. In late 2013, was announced that Qatar and other gulf stat will exame the possibily of banng the entry of homosexual foreigners. In the Gaza Strip, gays are beg executed by their relativ as a form of “honor killg.
As a polil advisor the Israeli parliament, I personally tried to promote the requt for Israeli cizenship ma by a gay Iranian, Payam Feili, so that he uld pe the severe persecutn by the regime. I also know that many gay Paltians fd refuge Israel, and that all Arab cizens of Israel enjoy the ee choice of whom to love.
Udi is a member of a group that advoted for LGBTQ rights Israel and worked as a polil advisor to a gay member of Israel’s parliament. Acrdg to Frank Parmir, a nvert to Islam and anizer wh MPV-Columb who staffed the booth wh Michael Toumayan, HRC’s relign and fah program manager, a man “Salafi garb” lectured them on homosexualy and s. “To be a ‘real Mlim, ’ one mt assert that homosexualy is a s, ” Parmir relled the man sayg.