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MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
HOUSTON - Hoton has a pretty sizeable Mlim populatn and while may e as a surprise, there are members of the muny who happen to intify as gay, lbian, transgenr, or queer.
"I want them to know Iftikhar is here, and to make sure I am that rource and be like ‘hey, this is what we have, ’ and I want them to be able to have a muny that is for them to be weled to and feel fortable bee we have a lot of refuge g on asylum that are gay and everythg is the sry for them as they may not have a fay here, or know anyone or even have a muny so they all end up lost, and I don't want that, " she said. "I knew all my life that I was gay, but I jt I never really accepted for myself bee my dad was so polil the Islamic Society [of Greater Hoton] so was a very big thg for me to e out and I wasn't able to, so was very hard for me. " Currently, Rani said they have a clear unrstandg of their Islamic inty but bee var members of the Mlim muny have negative opns of homosexuals, n raise some eyebrows when others fd out about her sexualy.