Resources for LGBT Muslims 1. http://www.safraproject.org/aboutus.htm The Safra Project is a resource project working on issues relating to lesbian, bisexual and/or transgender women who identify as Muslim religiously and/or culturally (Muslim LBT women).
2. http://www.huriyahmag.com/
Queer Muslim magazine Basically, I believe it is not ‘haraam’ to have a monogamous, samesex relationship that indicates by looking at it, there is a consensual loving relationship and they share their intimacy with each other; I call it a marriage, plain and simple. You as a Muslim man, or woman, deserve to seek a consensual monogamous relationship as would any Muslim, regardless of sexual orientation. (http://huriyahmag.com/spring/features.daayiee.htm )
3. http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/pamela_k_taylor/2007/03/gay_people_are_people_l ike_any.html http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/pamela_k_taylor/2008/05/equal_rights_for_all_incl udes/all_comments.html Article: Gay People are People Like Anyone Else Article: Equal Rights for All Includes Marital Rights Pamela Taylor ~ Co founder Muslim for Progressive Values
4. http://www.well.com/user/aquarius/
Faris Malik, the author of this web site, has been researching the subject of eunuchs and ancient conceptions of sex and gender identity since 1991.
5. http://www.alfatiha.org/
AlFatiha Foundation is dedicated to Muslims who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, questioning, those exploring their sexual orientation or gender identity, and their allies, families and friends.
6. http://www.well.com/user/queerjhd/ Queer Jihad is the queer Muslim struggle for acceptance: first, the struggle to accept ourselves as being exactly the way Allah has created us to be; and secondly, the struggle for understanding among Muslims in general.
7. http://www.albab.com/arab/background/gay.htm Provides information on queer Muslim literature, movies and other news items
8. http://www.globalgayz.com/gpakistan.html Two native Pakistani men write about living inside their sexually ambivalent culture where gay men live and love in secret.
9. http://www.salaamcanada.com/
An organization dedicated to Muslims who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual and/or transgender, as well as those questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity, and their friends.
10. http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/world.htm
Indicates Laws around the World and provides a host of other information 11. http://www.monotheizm.com/bb Click on the LGBT Issues section and you will find much of my work here. Famous LGBT Muslims: Millionaire Waheed Alli, given a life peerage at the age of 34 in 1998, became the youngest and first openly gay peer in Parliament… Irshad Manji (Canadian author, journalist, activist), Ifti Nasim (pioneering Pakistani gay poet), Sid Saeed (vicepresident of Deutsche Bank's global exchange services division)