Mlim and Gay

Contents:

• GAY, MLIM AND PROUD
• MLIM AND GAY
• GAY ARAB & MLIM ACTN & SUPPORT GROUP
• SDI GAY SCENE: 'FORBIDN, BUT I N'T HELP IT'
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

GAY, MLIM AND PROUD

”The show featur artwork themed around issu of Islamophobia, racism and homophobia to “highlight the stggl mon among ntemporary Mlim queer, trans and genr non-nformg muni, ” said -curator and activist Yas tle for the show, The Third Mlim, om breakg the two-tier stereotype around Islam today’s world, pecially light of the recent “Mlim Ban”. 95% rpectively, which supports the Indiana Universy fdgs of 10%, or 1 10For the sake of simplicy maths, let assume that fdgs suggt that 1 10 mal are homosexual. I also sat the mosque, listeng to the imam talkg about how homosexuals will be thrown to the fire that feeds on the bon of men like the people of Lot.

MLIM AND GAY

I know mlims that lie, steal, cheat and backbe regularly, but as soon as you mentn the word “gay”, they turn up their nos as if to say that they are once aga p the face of the “abomatns” of men. Akshash (a llectn of two short stori about gay Mlim men) Sex and Dperate Hearts: Short Fed (featur Fatima Thompson, an activist who talks about g out and livg as a Mlim Ameri. )The Wrg on My Forehead by Nafisa Haji (Pakistani-Amerin protagonist navigatg fay and culture, mor gay character)The Taqwar by Micheal Muhammad Knight (novel about an “Islamic punk” subculture, featurg queer characters)The Cy of Devi by Manil Suri (Indian novel wh a gay Mlim man as one of the ma characters a love triangle)Two Gay Mlim Coupl by Ali (about two pairs of gay men livg the Mlim world)The When We Wake seri by Karen Healey (protagonist’s bt iend is Mlim and attracted to multiple genrs)Other:150 days by KnightJJ (webic where an Arab Mlim fds a Che prce the.

sert and proceeds to fall love wh him)Non-fictnGeneral books: Assorted memoirs by Abllah Taia (the first openly gay Morocn tellectual, vers issu of culture, inty, and East/Wt relatns. Most are the origal French) Bareed Mista3jil (stori of LGBTQ+ Lebane women)Gay Travels the Mlim World by Michael Luongo (tells the stori of both Mlim and non-Mlim gay men the Mlim world)Homosexualy and Islam: Cril Reflectn on Gay, Lbian, and Transgenr Mlims by Stt Siraj Al-Haqq Kugle (scholarly work that challeng hetero/cissexist terpretatns of scripture)Hse & the Nomad and Khalil & Majnun by Rahal Eks (memoirs om a gay Sufi man livg Moroc, explorg spirualy and love)Illegal Cizens: Queer Liv the Mlim World by Afdhere Jama (stori about queer people untri where same-sex activy is forbidn)Livg Out Islam: Voic of Gay, Lbian, and Transgenr Mlims by Stt Siraj Al-Haqq Kugle (personal stori of LGBTQ+ Mlims)Love, Inshallah and Salaam, Love by Nura Masnavi and Ayha Mattu (queer-clive anthologi about the love liv of Amerin Mlim women and men, rpectively) Progrsive Mlims: On Jtice, Genr, and Pluralism, piled by Omid Safi (anthology of wrgs by var thors on progrsive Islam)Queer Jihad: LGBT Mlims on Comg Out, Activism, and the Fah by Afdhere Jama (a look at the liv of queer Mlims, mostly activists workg towards endg homophobia) Sex, Longg, and Not Belongg: A Gay Mlim’s Qut for Love and Meang by Baldd Khan (memoir om a Pakistani gay man)Wantg Arabic: Poems by Trish Salah (poetry about trans and racial inty by an Arab thor)Shorter piec:“Brown and Queer Ameri” by Mona M. (”creative nonfictn”-type says that lve to the thor’s inty as a queer person and/or Mlim) “Mlim, Queer, and Femist: It’s as plited as sounds” by Aamah Khan (reflectn on the thor’s journey to fah and tertwg of inti)Scholarly works:Assorted publitns by Andrew Yip (studi about queer people of fah, many of which om 2004 to 2010 foc on Mlims)“ Azima ila Hayati–An vatn to my life: Narrative Conversatns about Sexual Inty, ” by Sekneh Hammoud-Becket (article about the ncept of “the closet”, analysis here)Before Homosexualy the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 by Khaled El-Rouayheb (explor the ncept of homosexualy pre-lonial tim)Dirg Arabs (Google Drive) by Joseph Massad (chronicl the Arabs’ change attus towards their sexual sir, om the 1800s to the prent)Female Homosexualy the Middle East: Histori and Reprentatns by Samar Habib (trac the history of female homosexualy om the 9th century to today)“Gay Imperialism: Genr and Sexualy Disurse the ‘War on Terror’” (Google Drive) by J Haraworn, Tamsila Tqir, and Esra Erm (relatively easy-to-read overview of gay imperialist polics and queer Mlim affairs)“Gay Rights as Human Rights: Pkwashg Homonatnalism” by Maya Mikdashi (article on Wtern-imposed “rights” for queer Paltians while they are occupied and nied other human rights)“Homonatnalism and the Death of the Radil Queer” by Haley O’Shghnsy (discs the gay rights’ movement search for cln rather than revolutn, and how is tied up wh Amerin homonatnalism)“Islamic Texts: A Source for Acceptance of Queer Individuals to Mastream Mlim Society” (PDF) by Imam Muhs Hendriks (overview of the arguments for a queer-supportive terpretatn of Quran and Hadh)Queer Beit by Sofian Merabet (ethnographic study of queer liv the Middle East)“Queers of War: Normalizg Lbians and Gays the US War Mache” (PDF) by Hilary Kg (nsirs Amerin sexual rights disurs the broar ntext of imperialism)“Seekg home: The liv of gay and transgenr asylum seekers of the Middle East” by Nile Crowr (article about Arabs st out for their sexual/genr inti)“Sodomized by Relign”: Fictnal Reprentatns of Queer Mlims the Wt (PDF) by Ibrahim Abraham (analyz the “hybrid inty” of queer Mlims as picted two films and two novels) Terrorist Assemblag: Homonatnalism Queer Tim by Jaspir Puar (exam the role of the whe gay movement rercg racist and Islamophobic attus)Magaz/publitnsKaos GL (n by Turkish LGBT anizatn sce 1994) (Jordan, onle and prt bi-monthly) Q-Magaze (Kosovo, bilgual: English and Albanian, sadly seems to be active but there are old issu available)Roopban (Bengali, new magaze, ntact on Facebook if you want a py)Totally Radil Mlims ze (piec by queer and other margalized Mlims)OtherThe Empire of Sexualy: An Interview wh Joseph Massad (transcript where an amic challeng Wtern sexual inty polics & the imposn of the hetero-homo bary) **Warng: The ments on all the web-based piec are furiatg**.

This has been the state of terror Algeria for more than a addn to the dangers on acunt of my homosexualy, I uld face up to five years jail for evadg the draft. It is therefore likely that homosexuals suffer discrimatn, and on ocsns are subjected to physil and verbal abe by non–state agents as a rult of their sexual orientatn. If I was sent back, I uld be jailed and tortured by the Algerian ernment — or be hunted down and murred by the homophobic 100, 000 people have been killed by the fundamentalists (and another 50, 000 by the Algerian police and army their btal attempts to csh the Islamist surrectn).

GAY ARAB & MLIM ACTN & SUPPORT GROUP

The victims of the Islamists clu women who refe to be veiled, gay partners who vlate the strict taboo on same–sex love, people who hold a liberal terpretatn of the lslamic fah, and progrsive stunts, tellectuals, journalists, lawyers, tra unnists and left–wg assassated clu femist lear Nabila Diahne and theatre director Ablkar Alloula.

SDI GAY SCENE: 'FORBIDN, BUT I N'T HELP IT'

Same–sex relatns are punishable by ath eight Islamic natns, cludg Iran, Sdi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, northern Nigeria and Sudan (where the racist Islamic fundamentalist ernment is currently lludg wh the massacre of black Ains Darfur) some of the more progrsive Mlim societi are vlently homophobic. Our mds are nstantly troubled by the possibily of disvery, blackmail, disherance and personal stggle for eedom as a Mlim gay man began a long time ago. It is a horrible feelg to live a society where you have no place and where people like you are beg killed whout arog any sympathy wh your years later, the GIA posted notic around my area, sayg homosexuals would be killed.

If the mob had any spicn I was gay, at that moment of hysteria I uld easily have been stoned to Febary 2002 I heard about the police raidg a private gay party, after a neighbour’s plat. I also knew my ary exemptn was due to expire, and I would be forced to jo the army, where gay nscripts suffer vlent and sexual January 2003 the Milary Police me to my hoe. A motn to give legal regnn to people who are persecuted bee of their sexual orientatn has been roundly rejected by the Hoe of ernment argued that homosexuals were aquately protected by current asylum laws as members of a “particular social group”, reflectg the view of the Uned Natns Commissn on Human Rights(UNHCR).

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

”Amnty poted out that homosexual acts are still illegal 85 untri – predomantly Mlim and Ain on, although also several parts of the Uned Stat – and punishable by ath Iran, Mrania, Nigeria, Qatar, Sdi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen. But acknowledged that only recently had a growg number of asylum claims been ma by lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) paper nclud that “ternatnal and natnal velopments sexual orientatn se law clearly show that LGBT persons may be regnised as a ‘particular social group’ and, as such, are entled to protectn unr the 1951 Conventn” [see box] anisatns have never been so vol on this issue. Then Homosexual muni and works started to emerge morn ci benefg om the creatn of virtual work by means of the World Wi Web to prepare their physil relative visibily, eher virtual or physil entails an emergence of a mon subculture between the homophile muni that provis a background of nfince movg towards the fights for their rights to is problematic wh the Morocn homosexuals is that they are a pyt mol of Wtern same sex movement disregardg the mappg of social ntext they operate .

Knowg that at the societal level, homosexualy is a threat to the stutnal secury of the heterosexual fay and also is a threat to masculy at the dividual level, recently homophil creased their mands for equivalent legal stat as visibily public spac and the right to tablish their own associatns and events.