What 's like to be gay and a Mlim

Contents:

• WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM
• I'M GAY AND MLIM. I SAW MYSELF THE QURAN
• GAY AND MLIM?
• WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM AMERI
• IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC

WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM

Beg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or any other sexual orientatn or genr inty is difficult enough on s own, but beg Mlim as well n e one to stggle wh rencilg their inty wh Islam and Allah. If you're stgglg to rencile your LGBT+ inty wh your Islamic fah, n help to unrstand that Islam do not explicly forbid beg homosexual or havg a diverse genr inty.

Unrstand that the Quran do not necsarily nmn homosexualy. Homophobia exists any relign, and sometim, people will grasp at straws jt to prove that they are "right".

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

However, beg gay or bisexual is actually not explicly nmned the Quran, ntrary to what many Islamic schools of thought believe. There are many terpretatns of the Quran, but there's no chapter or verse that directly says homosexualy is an offense.

The verse often quoted to nmn beg gay Islam, the story of the Prophet Lut, is equently misterpreted. The words "homosexual" and "homosexualy" are never explicly ed the Quran, and lbian or bisexual women are not mentned.

GAY AND MLIM?

Furthermore, the Quran even mentns "men who are not need of women" (which n be terpreted as men who are gay or asexual) Verse 24:31-24:33, and the men are not nmned anywhere.

No thentic hadh will claim that LGBT+ people (or people who engage gay sexual relatns) should be put to ath. Some imams have publicly e out as gay, such as Imam Muhs Hendricks, Imam Daayiee Abdullah, [9].

and Imam Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed (who opened Paris's first gay-iendly mosque). It's okay to be a Mlim who don't nform to a homophobic or transphobic view of Islam, the same way that other aspects of Islam have evolved and changed over time. Imam Daayiee Abdullah lls homophobia, and the teachgs of homophobia, "the real s".

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM AMERI

Avoid webs and other sourc that are transphobic and homophobic.

WikiHow has articl that may assist you g out, such as (but not limed to) How to Come Out, How to Come Out As Gay or Lbian, How to Come Out As Transgenr, How to Come Out to Your Friends, and How to Come Out to Your Parents. It n often be upsettg, and jtifiably so; jt remember that homophobia and transphobia often stems om a lack of knowledge about the subject.

If other Mlims tell you that you aren't a te follower of Islam bee you're LGBT+, you may wish to script a rponse such as, "Actually, the Prophet Lut was nmng the celti occurrg Sodom, and he nmned rape rather than homosexualy. It wouldn't make sense for Lut's wife to be punished if he was upset about the men of Sodom beg gay".

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

If you are gay, accept and fd someone who lov you for who you are; then you n adopt a child together. However, gay upl uld still have children per means of adoptn, sperm donatn, or even if one partner was transgenr and pre-op. The Orlando shootg was a hate crime agast gay people – even if, once emerged that the attacker had been a Mlim, many people claimed this as a terrorist attack rather than a hate crime.

Sce the massacre there has been a lot of speculatn about Islam and homosexualy and there are fears that one man’s spible act of terrorism uld fan the flam of Islamophobia and other forms of social excln, leadg to disrd and unrt an era of elevated Islamophobia. It is difficult to fe the “Islamic posn” on homosexualy, as a monolhic phenomenon, simply bee Islam is a very diverse fah group wh some 1. In most Mlim untri, homosexualy is illegal and some untri, cludg Iran and Sdi Arabia, is punishable by ath.

But others, such as Jordan and Turkey, homosexualy is not nsired a crime. Most Islamic scholars are agreement that homosexualy is patible wh Islamic theology.