Gay people are reclaimg an Islamic herage

Contents:

• I'M GAY AND MLIM. I SAW MYSELF THE QURAN
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
• CAN A MLIM BE GAY?
• IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
• GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE

I'M GAY AND MLIM. I SAW MYSELF THE QURAN

Lamya H., a gay Mlim, said she saw what she felt was a pictn of her feelgs the Quran while studyg as a schoolgirl.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

Com Out As Gay. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen jt me out as gay... The area is also known for s ncentratn of bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots – all of which are nsired sful Islam.

A group of "gay furry" hackers has been releasg rmatn om US state ernments. SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

"We are also actually gay furri, I've seen untls people doubt that aspect of our group.". "Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments.

In the old days Mlims were que tolerant of homosexualyFOR DECADES regim the Middle East have alleged that homosexualy is both morally unacceptable and a Wtern import. Many gay activists disagree on both unts.

GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE

Homophobia is the Wtern import, they claim, troduced by puranil Europeans. “Ban the lonial law, ” cried mpaigners Tunisia December, referrg to a law crimalisg gay sex wrten by the French more than a century ago. “All the homophobic laws the Middle East were brought by lonialism to unrme Islam’s permissive civilisatn, ” says Ramy Khouili, a Tunisian to this story.

They relate how the Caliph Am nth-century Baghdad had a male lover and feted gay poets. And they rell that the Ottoman Turks, who led most of the Middle East the 19th century, crimalised homosexualy a century before Ameri and Bra.

Back then, “you uld be wh a man or a woman, ” says the transgenr founr of north Ai’s first gay movement, the Abu Nawas Associatn, named after a great Arab poet, who was gay. While much classil and Ottoman poetry featur male lovers, gay groups are disverg lbian poetry om the past.

CAN A MLIM BE GAY?

) The prent-day jihadists of Islamic State throw gay people off rooftops, cg a reported sayg of the Prophet endorsg the practice. But scholars have stggled to fd historil s of anyone takg this verse gay re-engagement wh Islam has s crics.

Still, most are willg to lend their support to gay people now facg arrt, torture and censorship by Arab lers. Can a Mlim be gay – or acceptg of a fellow Mlim who’s gay?

IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC

Ever sce the landmark US Supreme Court cisn on June 26 makg same-sex marriage legal the US, bate has emerged among Mlims worldwi about the mer of the lg, wh the obv implitn if they as Mlims approve or disapprove of a person beg a gay while profsg to be a Mlim. For the Mlims, their own relign [sic] nvictns support their views on gay marriage and believe that God’s passn tmps all. “But many Mlims on social media lashed out, ” another utned, “sayg ‘qiyamah’, the day of judgement, was near while the story of Lot nmng homosexualy holy scriptur, cludg the Quran, is beg ignored.

Insi Story Ameris – A major victory for gay equaly?

Leadg scholars of this field such as Joseph Massad have radilly ntted the manner which what he terms “gay ternatnal” has imperially domated the variety of homoerotic domas Arab and Mlim history. Samar Habib’s eded two volum Islam and Homosexualy (2009) and Khaled El-Rouayheb’s Before Homosexualy the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 (2009) are exampl of such groundbreakg work. The legalisatn of same-sex marriage the Uned Stat will do very ltle to dimish the ep-rooted homophobia this untry...

GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE

Stt Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, Homosexualy Islam: Cril Reflectn on Gay, Lbian, and Transgenr Mlims (2010) is another cril example, pl the work of other scholars such as Kecia Ali, Serena Tolo and Sara Omar. Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed wrote a ccial tobgraphy, The Koran and the Flh/Le Coran et la chair (2012), Jerry Wright’s Homoeroticism Classil Arabic Lerature, and Helie and Hoodfar’s Sexualy Mlim Contexts have expand our historil unrstandg of the issue, while Joseph Massad’s Dirg Arabs (2007) took the whole disurse of homosexualy radilly to task. In the US, gay marriage has bee legal not bee the Bible says ’s ok.

The legalisatn of same-sex marriage the Uned Stat will do very ltle to dimish the ep-rooted homophobia this untry, as ed the Emancipatn Proclamatn of 1863 did not entirely end racism; or Roe v Wa of 1973 end patriarchy, machismo, and misogyny; or Brown v Board of Edutn of 1954 end school segregatn, which has ntued apace along class l to this day. It n then e them all as exampl to enurage Mlims at large to participate open, hont, and rmed discsns articulatg and safeguardg their civil liberti across the board – which clus, but isn’t limed to, gay rights and the possibily of the acceptance of same-sex marriage wh Mlim muni. How Amerin Mlims Mt Rpond to Orlando Israel's First Gay Major General Is No Cse for Pri The Real Opprsors of Gaza's Gay Communy Beit Pri Canceled After Organizer Detaed by Authori Lebanon last year beme the first Arab untry to hold a gay pri week, though the openg event was nceled bee of safety ncerns after threats of vlence.

>> Israel's first gay major general is no e for pri >> This year’s pri week began on May 12 and was due to n until May 20. Here's a look at what the ISIS, Islamic scholars and others the regn say about homosexualy.