Affirming mosques help gay Muslims reconcile faith, sexuality. - NBCOUT
, 10 years ago to allow lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Muslims to attend prayers without having to hide their sexual orientation or gender identity for fear of discrimination.
While Khaki said Unity Mosque was one of the only explicitly LGBTQ-inclusive spaces he had heard of when it opened in 2009, he noted things are starting to change. “The details are important,” he added. “In the Quran, there is no word that explicitly describes homosexual or transgender persons; the Arabic terms were invented after the Quran’s revelation, by medieval jurists and contemporary journalists, doctors and social critics.”
“I just kept getting drawn to being around them and being close to anything that resembled Islam,” she said.
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