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Hidden Voices Seek Path to Full Inclusion Lear Corp. To Offer People just need “to realize that love is Partner Benefits unconditional. It knows no sex, no race, no culture. It Margaret Warner just knows itself. Steps In At REC – Brandy EXCLUSIVE ” Q+A The Gay Muslim Struggle Hidden Voices Seek Path To Full Inclusion WWW.PRIDESOURCE.COM JAN 17, 2013 | VOL. 2103 | FREE COLOR 2 BTL | January 17, 2013 www.PrideSource.com COVER STORY 4 Gay muslims struggle to find inclusion I already did my coming out, about a Chris Harvey / Shutterstock.com thousand years ago, back in the Stone Age. In those People just need to realize that love is very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open Lear Corp. To Offer “ unconditional. It knows no Partner Benefits sex, no race, no culture. It just knows itself. EXCLUSIVE Q+A Margaret Warner ”– Brandy Steps In At REC up to trusted friends and family and co-workers and The Gay Muslim Struggle then gradually and proudly to everyone who knew her – to everyone she actually met. Hidden Voices Seek “ Path To Full Inclusion - Jodie Foster accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award, Pg. 12 JAN 17, 2013 | VOL. 2103 | FREE WWW.PRIDESOURCE.COM NEWS Join The Conversation @ PrideSource.com 4 Out and outspoken: Faisal Alam to ” speak at UM-Dearborn CALENDAR ENTER TO WIN 6 Mich. court upholds partner benefits for state employees 7 Lear Corp. to offer partner benefits 8 Stepping in as Ruth Ellis interim: Margaret Warner 9 LGBT latino Blanco to make history at Obama inauguration OPINION 10 Viewpoint 11 Parting Glances 12 Creep of the Week 12 Jodie Foster coming out and contributing to the LGBT community BTL wants to know: What is your idea of a romantic Promote Your Events For Free See Big Freedia At The Crofoot LIFE Valentine’s evening? Dinner and a horror flick? 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Copyright 2013 Pride Source Media Group, LLC www.PrideSource.com January 17, 2013 | BTL 3 Gay Muslims Struggle To Find Inclusion BY ANDREA POTEET and most homophobia within the community comes from ews out of France of Everyone belongs to the culture and misinterpretations Europe’s first openly-gay of the Quran. Nmosque in the last weeks group and if one individual “Everyone belongs to the of 2012 again brought to the “ group and if one individual does forefront two points rarely heard does something that’s not something that’s not promoting in the mainstream media: There promoting the group as being the group as being the proper are gay Muslims, and they are kind of family or tribal group, struggling to find inclusion in a the proper kind of family or it stands out and the person culture that has traditionally cast and the family group then them aside. tribal group, it stands out and becomes suspect or open to Imam Daayiee Abdullah, of the person and the family being ridiculed,” Abdullah said. of Masjid An-Nur Al-Isslah, “So a lot of it has to do with the a progressive prayer center group then becomes suspect or culture versus the actual aspects in Washington D.C., knows of being gay. “ this firsthand. In addition to open to being ridiculed. Raised Baptist, Abdullah counseling gay Muslims for the converted to Islam while past 12 years, the Detroit native studying at the University – Imam Daayiee Abdullah is one of two gay imams known ” of Beijing in the ‘80s after in the religion worldwide. studying law at Georgetown He said the Quran never University. He had already condemns homosexuality, using been out for 12 years and said the term for “mate” more often Imam Daayie Abdullah of Masjid An-Nur Al-Isslah. than for those for husband or wife, Continued on Next Page Out And Outspoken: Faisal Alam To Speak at UM-Dearborn BY ANDREA POTEET for most of his life: He was gay, and Opening.” In 1998, Alam formed an which he has taken to more than 100 his religion not only condemned organization with the same name and colleges and universities around the Growing up, Faisal Alam thought those who were like him, many didn’t a mission to spread counseling and world in the past five years. there was no one else like him. even believe they existed. resources to Muslims throughout the He said he hopes people leave As a devout Muslim in suburban “You will have strict followers tell world grappling with their sexuality. with a better understanding of Islam Connecticut, Alam had never heard you that there’s no such thing as gay Before it disbanded in 2008, the and the challenges faced by its of anyone else in his religion being Muslims; they don’t exist,” Alam organization had 800 members LGBT members. gay. said.” It varies all the way to people in eight U.S. chapters and sister For Alam, those challenges have “I almost had to convince myself who say it’s a test from God and you organizations in three countries. included being unwelcome in many that if I pray hard enough or become would have to stay celibate.” Those involved plan to start a similar of the Muslim spaces he used to once religious enough that these feelings After graduating high school and organization next year. call home. On a spiritual “journey,” inside of me will somehow go away, going off to college, Alam began Alam said the organization was one he has found a few progressive that God will take them away,” facing his sexuality head on. Soon, of the first to start the conversation Muslim organizations and has Alam, who will visit the University the model Muslim teen was out - and about homosexuality in Islam on a attended their prayer services, but of Michigan-Dearborn Jan. 24 to outspoken. national level. is still weighing his religious options. present his program “Hidden Voices: “It was really a shock to a lot of “We were really the first “I was able to create spiritual The Lives of LGBT Muslims,” said. people because here I was, this poster organization in the U.S. that brought spaces for LGBT Muslims but that “I became very religious in high child of my community and all of the the issues of Islam and homosexuality was the only time I got to practice school and became very involved sudden I was saying that not only out on a national level and really my faith,” he said. “So im still on the in the Muslim community. I was was I gay, but it’s okay to be gay and made people alware of the many journey ...we’re dealing with 1,400 organizing camps and conferences I’m going to tell the whole world challenges that LGBT Muslims years of theology that’s against us Faisal Alam for American Muslim youth .” about it,” Alam said.
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