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Contents:

• WHY HIGH-FLYG BARRISTER MOHS ZAIDI’S MEMOIR OF A GAY MLIM’S JOURNEY TO ACCEPTANCE IS A MT-READ
• WHAT 'S LIKE GROWG UP AS A GAY BRISH MLIM – AND HOW MY FAY ME TO TERMS WH
• IS SAIMA MOHS GAY?
• AUTHOR SHAR HEARTBREAKG STORY OF G OUT AS GAY AND MLIM: ‘MY FATHER ASKED A WCH DOCTOR TO CURE ME’
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• A DUTIFUL BOY: A MEMOIR OF SECRETS, LI AND FAY LOVE (WNER OF THE LAMBDA 2021 LERARY AWARD FOR BT GAY MEMOIR/BGRAPHY)

WHY HIGH-FLYG BARRISTER MOHS ZAIDI’S MEMOIR OF A GAY MLIM’S JOURNEY TO ACCEPTANCE IS A MT-READ

‘A Dutiful Boy’ is Zaidi’s story of growg up a strict Mlim hoehold where to be gay was nceivable – has been scribed as ‘a book that will save liv’Twter: @FoylMohs Zaidi, 35, was recently terviewed the Tim – not jt terviewed, they chose the handsome, high-flyg, Oxford-ted barrister to grace the weekend magaze’s ver. Bee Zaidi has ‘fied a Brish-Asian taboo’ and gone public wh a memoir, to be published Augt, about growg up as a closet gay Mlim.

Journalist Sathnam Sangera says ‘’s a book that will save liv’ book, A Dutiful Boy, rells a childhood growg up queer a strict Mlim hoehold wh a vout shia Mlim muny – where to be gay was neivable. He entertaed the though of suici and even lled a wch doctor to cure him of his homophobia of his childhood was tense. Sathnam wr that an uncle lled him ‘Fag Bag’ for simply listeng to Mariah Carey and that on drivg past a Gay Pri march London as a teenager, such was the extent of his self-loathg, he remarked that ‘they should all be bombed’.

WHAT 'S LIKE GROWG UP AS A GAY BRISH MLIM – AND HOW MY FAY ME TO TERMS WH

Instagram: @mohszaidi_ldnZaidi poignantly says his terview wh the Tim: ‘For gays, I was too Mlim. For Mlims, I was too gay. He is on the board of Stonewall, the chary that mpaigns for the qualy of LGBTQIA+ across Bra, named after the rts 1969 that prompted the gay liberatn movement.

Sathnam Sanghera wr that he had to put the book down on several ocsns to cry, g an example of when Zaidi’s brother works all out and texts him sayg, ‘I’m jt so sorry you had to go through alone’ FT's former edor Lnel Barber and Afua Hirsch are among the many to remend the memoir, by all acunts, ’s a eply movg acunt that is well worth lvg to – pecially sce even the 21st century, homosexualy remas a taboo many Brish Asian muni. He is a barrister, LGBT rights mpaigner – and now the thor of a memoir about the stggle of growg up as a gay man a nservative Mlim 35-year-old’s but book, A Dutiful Boy, me about after he entered a wrg petn on a whim 2016. He is gay and he leav the muny and mov to London, where he has to work as a sex worker.

Growg up, Mohs Zaidi felt that 'beg gay wasn't an optn'.

IS SAIMA MOHS GAY?

There's plenty for rears to chew over, but arguably s central nflict is between a young Zaidi’s dawng realisatn that he is a gay man and the Pakistani herage and vout Mlim fah of his parents. “Beg gay jt wasn't an optn, ” Zaidi explas. “I don't thk I was ever told anythg homophobic as a child.

I did hear homophobia om one of my uncl, but who didn't have an uncle the 1980s who was homophobic?

AUTHOR SHAR HEARTBREAKG STORY OF G OUT AS GAY AND MLIM: ‘MY FATHER ASKED A WCH DOCTOR TO CURE ME’

Zaidi rells his teenage terror at his growg unrstandg of his sexualy; pilgrimag to holy s Syria where he begged god to remove his homosexualy; throwaway jok om fay members steeped homophobia cut through his memory like kniv. Even as an adult, a succsful lawyer and openly gay, he adms to sometim feelg like an outsir.

While he thks thgs have fely improved for young gay Mlims wh more role mols, more support, and more rmatn available, Zaidi is fully gnizant of the challeng still faced by morn Brish people whose opposg sectns of inty don’t seem to gel.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Nowadays, there is no answer to the issue -Saima Mohs is gay? However, you n still fd people that say Saima Mohs is gay, but their ments haven't any nsistency or accuracy of any sort.

Celebri such as Saima Mohs never have admted they may be homosexual, this is bee they are fely not gay or bee they are and do not want to go public.

Although Saima Mohs has not said to be homosexual, 's easier to e out the world of the celebri, as there have been many to precent this. Vooxpopuli manag thoands of famo celebri and 's possible we missed some tails about the qutn - Is Saima Mohs gay? Mohs Zaidi appeared on the Jeremy Ve Rad 2 show on 3 March to discs his book about growg up gay a workg-class, nservative Mlim fay.

A DUTIFUL BOY: A MEMOIR OF SECRETS, LI AND FAY LOVE (WNER OF THE LAMBDA 2021 LERARY AWARD FOR BT GAY MEMOIR/BGRAPHY)

He spoke to Jeremy Ve about his trmatic, plex and unique experienc, both as a gay Mlim and a workg class stunt at Oxford.

While he was at universy, he explaed that he lived a “dual life as a gay man at uni and mol Mlim son at home”, who snuck downstairs at night to watch Queer as Folk.

And when he fally told his father he was gay, a wch doctor was ved to ‘cure him’.

‘I genuely believed I was a terrible person bee I was gay’. Asked how his iend reacted, Mohs Zaidi explaed: “I thk she was relieved bee I had opened the nversatn by askg if she uld still be iends wh me if I was a terrible person bee I genuely believed I was a terrible person bee I was gay. You n buy A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Mlim’s Journey to Acceptance on Amazon here, and you n listen to the Jeremy Ve terview wh Mohs Zaidi here.

At the time, the only gay men he knew of – Freddy Mercury and Gee Michael – looked nothg like him.

A Pakistani man now his 30s, he remembers the feelgs of isolatn and pa that me wh keepg his sexualy a secret until he got to universy, where he felt able to e out as gay to himself, then others. A Dutiful Boy is a betiful memoir about his upbrgg and the seemg patibily of those two facets of his inty: beg Pakistani and gay.