Gay Muslims in the UK

With the Faith and Homophobia conference to be held on February 17th 2007 in London, Gay.com UK takes a look at a growing trend of LGBT religious and spirituality groups. Hassan Mirza has written a profile about gay Muslims.

And there’s even more to say about the Gay Muslims, who to the casual observer may seem particularly self-hating – in light of violence-preaching Imams (some fanatic ones who preach the death of gays) displayed in popular British media.

While some Muslim leaders are quick to condemn homosexuality, this group has admirably stood defiant and stayed together, and deserve respect for managing to embrace a religion which publicly rejects them.

The Gay and Lesbian Muslims, however, have acquired a somewhat precarious reputation among the gay community – most notably baffling gay parade-goers in 2005 when they appeared on a London Pride float, hiding their identities.

See also other ‘gay Muslim’ websites such as Eye on Gay Muslims, Imaan UK and the Safra Project (muslim women) and read this interesting article on Progressive Muslim about Gay Rabbis and  Gay marriage.