Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
Contents:
- ‘DON’T E BACK, THEY’LL KILL YOU FOR BEG GAY’
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
‘DON’T E BACK, THEY’LL KILL YOU FOR BEG GAY’
Hassan remembers watchg his iend was 2013, and Hassan’s 25-year-old iend had jt told his fay that he was gay.
On the one hand, homophobia and transphobia plague the Somali-Amerin muny.
Theirs are all stori of rilience, and of fdg strength each other amidst wav of terviewee stood outsi a popular gay bar Mneapolis and saw gay whe men ll Somali taxi drivers “goatfuckers”. It’s expected, ” Hassan said of homophobia and transphobia his Somali-Amerin muny. Even though Mneapolis’ LGBTQ muny is large and visible, many of the dividuals terviewed for this piece say has largely met them wh hostily – an extensn of the overt racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia boilg the US at asked about LGBTQ Somali-Amerins beg further tegrated wh Mnota’s larger LGBTQ muny, Michelle, a 29-year-old Somali gay woman who me to Mnota seven years ago, said: “I don’t really foree that happeng this untry.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
”“We have now a suatn that tells that we are not Amerin, overtly, ” said Hse, a 24-year-old gay Somali-Amerin man. “In Somalia, [gay people] only exist social media, not real life, ” said Ali, a 28-year-old gay Somali-Amerin man. He me to Mneapolis several years ago wh his parents, who do not know he is gay and routely prsure him to get married.
I don’t thk I n have that nversatn wh them bee of how they view homosexual people. ”“[Homophobia] is eply woven to our culture, and ’s eply woven to ntemporary terpretatns of Islam, ” Hassan said.
“At the same time that Islam is a eply homophobic relign, there is an credible amount of muny and nnectedns that helps facilate. I know might be kd of hard to terpret, but if I believed God a ltle b more, I thk that homophobia, for me, would be a small enough price to pay to still be a part of that muny. The urts enforce Islamic law, Sharia, which ems homosexualy illegal, so LGBT+ Somalis mt nceal their sexualy.