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  johnpi 2:49 pm on January 26, 2010 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: gay muslims (11), gays (15), homophobia (11), homosexuality (35), lesbians, LGBT (9), LGBTQ (3), Muslim lesbians (2)

  Islam Online has a new section called “Unveiling the homosexuality.”

  Here’s an excerpt from an interview with Dr. Awsam Hanna, an Egyptian psychiatrist who has experience in ‘reparative therapy’ where he is describing the ‘homosexual personality.’

  It is also a part of the whole “homosexual personality,” characterized by low self-esteem, lack of social skills, disconnection from body, and emotional isolation from society with varying degrees in different individuals. The isolation is not just because of the hatred and homophobia of society, it is an element in the psychopathology (disease process) of the disorder itself. Of course the homophobia of the society adds to it, but it is not entirely caused by it.

  I guess that means there is no such thing as a socially or economically successful gay person.

  Via Kawdess tweets

   

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  johnpi 8:17 am on October 14, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: gay muslims (11), gay rights (6), gays (15), homosexuality (35), homosexuals (15), lesbians, Muslim lesbians (2), violence against gays (6)

  In researching another story about homophobia in Muslim communities, I came across this three-years-and-still-going thread about in-the-closet Muslim lesbians. It seems that a lot of “secret” Muslim lesbians are finding succor on this thread, so I thought I would pass it along. The descriptions of flourishing lesbian communities in some Muslim countries are also noteworthy. Some excerpts:

  From Saudi Arabia:

  Yes there are many Muslim Lesbians around. I am from Saudi Arabia, the worst country there is for Homosexual yet, I am telling you I have never faced any problems. Ok, I am not very “visible” but it is my choice for a variety of reason one of which is my style and fasion taste. But, dykes are every where. We have a famous shopping mall here in Riyadh with a floor for women only. That place is heaven! Just visit the place on weekends and you will be amazed at the number of “couples” strolling around, window shopping etc. There are a few lesbian spots on the floor as well.

  From Malaysia:

  How are you? I was born, raised a muslim and I practice Islam well… quite religiously. hehe..

  I am out to most of my friends, and most of them are practicing muslims. and they cant be more supportive. Well, two or three have showed negative responds and those two/three were egyptians. But we Malaysians are really quite open about it. They treat me the same if not better.

  These supportive friends of mine, they know and love me for who i am. Alhamdulillah, being gay does not change their perspectives on me. I even changed some of their mind about lesbians and homosexuals.

   
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  johnpi 5:12 pm on March 2, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: gays (15), homosexuality (35), homosexuals (15), Keith Ellison (9), lesbians

  This will be a political nonstarter, as it is intended to help the two groups that are most loathed by the still-very-powerful religious right – gays and immigrants. Supporters however see it as part of a multi-year effort to compel passage.

  Reps. Keith Ellison and Betty McCollum are cosponsoring legislation that would help bi-national same-sex couples keep their families together. Called the Uniting American Families Act, the legislation would allow non-citizen partners of gays and lesbians to gain permanent resident status in the same manner as married couples.

   
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  johnpi 12:15 am on January 27, 2009 | 11 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: gays (15), homosexuality (35), lesbians, LGBT (9), marriages of convenience

  Imagine a delighted South Asian Muslim family receiving a marriage proposal from a promising recent med-school grad for the hand of their attractive, young daughter in marriage.

  In reality, the doctor is gay, the daughter is lesbian, and the two of them have found each other through the Internet to arrange a marriage of convenience. The two will go on to live communally with their respective lovers in the same house. “I get married to a lesbian, we sleep in different rooms, and remain friends. Meanwhile I can have a boyfriend.”

  Here’s a short film that illustrates the scenario above. The film asserts that there are hundreds of gay Muslims in America today living in such MOC marriages – maybe even a seemingly heterosexual couple you know.

  Interestingly, the narrative of the girl refers to how she grew up mostly completely separated from boys in the Muslim way and so grew close to her girlfirends, until one became her girlfriend – implying that the Islamic norm of strict sex segregation fosters homosexual connection. Recently, Umar, in his response to Yusuf Smith, referenced stories of homosexual behavior at Islamic madrassas, which again point to the possibility that strict sex segregation fosters homosexual connection.

  Regarding MOCs, if we leave aside the question of whether God is happy, everybody else is. The community’s norms are not overturned, the extended family doesn’t have to “suffer” social repercussions to their fragile honor, no one has been murdered, no heterosexual winds up unknowingly married to a homosexual, and the guy gets the girl in the end. No wait…