Can a Mlim Be Gay?

Contents:

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

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

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". However, beg gay or bisexual is actually not explicly nmned the Quran, ntrary to what many Islamic schools of thought believe.

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM AMERI

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. 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.

CAN A MLIM BE GAY?

Imam Daayiee Abdullah lls homophobia, and the teachgs of homophobia, "the real s". How do you know if you’re gay?

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.

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

It wouldn't make sense for Lut's wife to be punished if he was upset about the men of Sodom beg gay". If you are gay, accept and fd someone who lov you for who you are; then you n adopt a child together. Isn't homosexualy forbidn bee gay upl n't?

However, gay upl uld still have children per means of adoptn, sperm donatn, or even if one partner was transgenr and pre-op.

Lamya H., a gay Mlim, said she saw what she felt was a pictn of her feelgs the Quran while studyg as a schoolgirl. Ebenhack)Gay Mlims tend to be virtually visible the Uned a culture that has been alternately skeptil of and downright hostile toward Mlim Amerins, g out as LGBTQ si that muny isn't exactly easy.

GAY AND MLIM?

Too many are left to live and love the shadows—foreigners their own land, tranged om their after the tragedy that saw 49 killed and 53 jured at a gay nightclub Orlando last weekend—and wispread reports that the perpetrator Omar Marteen was stgglg wh his sexual inty and mental health—gay Mlims fd themselv unr new my nversatns wh gay Mlim Amerins this week, the roundg msage was that Omar Mateen is no reprentative of the Mlim muny—LGBTQ or otherwise. "The narrative was first that Mateen was a homophobe bee of Islam. Now that we're told that he may have been secretly gay, the narrative has bee that he was self-hatg bee of his Islam.

The only notable difference between those whe men and Mateen, of urse, is that the latter was brown and Mlim, the extremist iology he flirted wh supposedly be sure, homophobia is a real problem the Mlim muny, one that n produce alienatn for many young people. The problem is that Amerin media prents Islam and s people as a monolh: They validate the view that all Mlims are homophobic.

CAN A MLIM BE GAY?

"As for gay and lbian Mlims whout the support work she enjoys, Alam says, "I wish we didn't have to be brave jt to ntue livg. He spent years unselg and ex-gay therapy, as he and his parents tried their bt to engeer him to a hetero-normative liftyle. "When I was llege, I was practicg a mornist versn of Islam but one that was still homophobic, " he says.

He's a Paltian Amerin and works as a public health profsnal, travelg to untri the Middle East and Ai where there are large Mlim majori and strict laws agast homosexualy.

"Though Kamal is grateful for openly gay Mlim voic, he remas gnizant that his journey is far more mon among men and women of his muny—who rema silent for fear of beg ostracized at bt, or victims of vlence at worst. "The tth is you n still be nied a job or hog bee you're gay, " he adds. But there are jt as many plac where I am aaid to be gay.