Affirmg mosqu help gay Mlims rencile fah, sexualy

Contents:

• GAY MLIMS FD SANCTUARY SOUTH AI'S 'PEOPLE'S MOSQUE'
• ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
• MOS GAY
• MOS J. MOSELEY GAY: WAS THE WALKG DEAD ACTOR GAY?
• AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
• INSI CAPE TOWN'S GAY MOSQUE
• A GAY MOSQUE CAPE TOWN SOUNDS THE LL TO PRAYER FOR EVERYONE
• IS CAPE TOWN’S WOMEN AND GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE A SIGN OF NEW MLIM ATTUS?
• WILLIAM HENRY GAY
• GAY DATG MPUMALANGA

GAY MLIMS FD SANCTUARY SOUTH AI'S 'PEOPLE'S MOSQUE'

South Ai's gay mosque is a small room wh wdows vered wh veian blds, a greenish rpet and a ksch Qibla pass potg to Mec.

ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK

" On Fridays, more than a dozen gay men and women vis the place of worship n by the untry's only openly gay imam, Muhs Hendricks. Homosexualy here is not a s.

MOS GAY

* * *Compared to many untri Ai, where gay sex is a crime and some n be punished by ath, South Ai is a bastn of liberalism.

MOS J. MOSELEY GAY: WAS THE WALKG DEAD ACTOR GAY?

Gay, lbian and transgenr people face "rrective rape", discrimatn and vlence on a daily basis, say activists.

AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY

Unlike Hargey's place of worship, The People's Mosque, n by Hendricks, explicly scrib self as a gay place of worship, and has managed to stay out of the Muhs Hendricks ns the gay Mlim support anizatn The Inner Circle alongsi The People's Mosque. Photo by Salym FayadHendricks has been a pneer for gay rights among South Ain Mlims for the past 18 years.

INSI CAPE TOWN'S GAY MOSQUE

The son of an imam himself, he always wanted to be a cleric, but as a gay young boy, he thought he would go to hell. It should be a place where you uld also qutn Islam; that's what I thk a mosque should be" years, Hendricks has studied the vers of the Quran, particularly those which talk about Sodom and Gomorrah and have been ed as to nmn homosexualy.

A GAY MOSQUE CAPE TOWN SOUNDS THE LL TO PRAYER FOR EVERYONE

Before that I was always lookg around, so nobody would go and tell my father that I was openly gay. "I ed to read the vers of the Quran where Allah speaks about Sodom and Gomorrah, those vers that imams e to nmn homosexualy, and I would cry, askg why would a god of love, of mercy, would nmn such a small boy?

IS CAPE TOWN’S WOMEN AND GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE A SIGN OF NEW MLIM ATTUS?

I went to a gay support group, but they uldn't help me wh my relign. That's when I met Imam Hendricks, and he told me, Ziyaad is is not haram [forbidn] to be a gay and a Mlim. "For the past year, Ziyaad has been attendg the gay mosque, and helpg other gay men semars where they learn a "queer narrative" which n help them rencile wh their sexualy.

Photo by Salym FayadFriday service at the gay mosque tak the same form as that any other mosque the world.

WILLIAM HENRY GAY

It's not a gay thg. The practice of homosexualy has bee much more celebrated wtern society and has ed tremendo nversatn to be kdled around the shiftg moraly of our tim. Many Christians today beg to wonr what the Bible really says about homosexualy.

Yet, the msage of the Bible is unified s prohibn of homosexual practice. Let remember that God tends good for our liv and often His prohibns the Bible are to protect om tent here is to prent how the Bible speaks on the very sensive matter of homosexualy, not to be ammunn for divisive cred: ©Getty Imag/pamela_d_mdams.

GAY DATG MPUMALANGA

Do the Bible Say Homosexualy a S? Plaly speakg, the Bible tells that the practice of homosexualy is a s.