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harlansthoughts · 8 months

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for all the aggravated homosexuals out there

#gay #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbt pride #lgbtq community #lgbtqiia+#news #uganda #homosexuality #aggravated homosexuality #lmfao

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sweagen · 8 months

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Hi Guys

I'm remaking this post since I misgendered Mose and went off the rails in the last one.

Please donate if you can!! Every little bit helps!!!

Sincerely,

John/Philip

#GoFundMe #Uganda #Important #lgbt community

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violetjedisylveon · 10 months

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Wanna save some lives?

Don't you all just love it when someone decides that because you do something they don't agree with, you should be murdered?

It's not at all like people can do whatever they want to with their own damn lives. No no, some people are determined to ruin everyone else's lives because people do something they don't like.

So they chose to murder those people like that doesn't make them entierly in the wrong regardless of the situation.

If you know why this is happening, you know what group I am talking about.

If you for some reason, agree with fucking murdering someone for *gasp* being gay or trans or not behaving in a "proper, natural" cishet way, I've got a fucking news flash for you dickhead, very few things on this planet are 100% heterosexual, almost everything engages in a lil homo, and only us big brain dumb dumbs decide to throw hissy fit about it and kill each other for it.

Truly, the more advanced life forms.

Also literally every man was a woman at some point, fucking think about it, use your brains and think critically instead of just believing whatever some authority figure told you.

I really wish humanity was more like bonobos than chimps, there'd be very little way for any of this to happen cause 1, Bonobos aren't very violent, and 2, they are all pansexual, everyone's fucking everyone when you're a bonobo.

Bonobos are our closest relatives btw.

If you believe that people should be murdered for being gay, you are wrong, no one should be murdered for something like that. Go fuck yourself and consider becoming a better person, the world needs less assholes and I need some faith in this dumpster fire of a species. Feed two squirrels with one scone and don't be a garbage person. It's not that hard. It really isn't.

I would say sorry for pushing this bad news on you and ruining your day(it ruined mine, trust me) but, I am not, it is important to fight against so, maybe donate or protest or stop supporting the groups who use political power and influnce to push their agenda onto the governments of countries dependent upon their aid and make them do atrocious things like this.

I swear if anyone tries to fight me and say it is somehow justified, I will fucking destroy you.

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an-onyx-void · 4 months

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Ugandan LGBT activist in critical condition after stabbing

#strait times #the strait times #TST #singapore news #Singaporean news #Singaporean news source #uganda #lgbtqia+#lgbtiq #lgbtqia #LGBTQIA2S #lgbtq #lgbt+#lgbtq community #lgbt #africa

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keyki421 · 11 months

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This is why I have no desire to visit any African countries. I know some African countries are trying really hard to get Black Americans to visit them. Even Ghana has a festival called the Year of the Return. You can miss me with all that BS. African is extremely anti gay. Also all it takes is for someone to assume you are and that could be the end of your life. I think it's really foul that many black people will promote this ideal of returning to our ancestors, while completely ignoring the Black LGBT community. Which is very prevalent in our community.

I have no desire to change any of the laws in these African countries as well. Cause the way I look at it, the world is moving forward and these countries will simply be left behind. I just feel sorry for the LGBT people who are in these countries and hope they eventually get the resources to escape and build a happy life somewhere else.

#black community #uganda #lgbt

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glitterizedocean · 1 year

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Help people go against the Anti-homosexuality Project in Uganda.

#uganda #africa #lgbt community #lgbtqia+#lgbt rights #homosexual #homosexuality #free lgbtqia+ in uganda #sign this petition #lgbtqia

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kakuma-queer · 1 year

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Hello world, reaching to everyone as one of the queer refugees from Kenya Kakuma refugees camp. Life has never been good since we came to the camp years ago in 2019 ,2020 and 2021. Although life is hard, LGBTIQA refugees have continuously joined us in the camp in the latest years leading to a larger number of lgbtiqa refugees in Kenya.

The camp has over 200,000 total number of refugees with just about 1300 lgbtiqa+ refugees. Its just a smaller ratio of lgbtiqa regugees facing persevution from the bigger number of other refugees.

Most of us have fled from Uganda where things turned out to be hard on queer people including death and imprisonment of lgbtiqa people. I call upon everyone tk help and support the the fellow queer people surbive through this trauma. You can’t imagine we have lost friends through death due to homophobia. One of us who was killed badly by setting fire on them did noy live for a month later. When we rushed them to hospital, doctors knew was trans and so devided to delay him and later died. We please need everyone to help. Even contacting UNHCR can help.

Look we have a youtube channel for more information and links like petitions and fundraiser are attached to our youtube channel

Our fundraising campaign, help and donate if you can, if you can't please share, we are currently looking forward to constructing an iron sheet fence as it will improve our safety.

As the leadership team for our group, we estimated it to take $1200. We also love to install a solar system that will cost us $700, will include solar panel, battery, inverter, lights and extensions. Where we shall be able to charge our phones from our premises and also have security lights to avoid attacks at night. and avoid unnecessary movements that also put us at risk of attacks. Please help and support us so that we can improve our safety. With the iron sheet fence we shall reduce on the risks of attacking us by homophobes especially when we are sleeping. I please call upon your support as we shall account for all the money donated to us. Thanks

It takes a good and kind heart to help, you will always stick on our hearts yiu people that make us feel we sre loved and cared about. Sustaining ourselves has failed us. We would prefer having jobs however no one can give a job to a demon like how the call us to be.

Hospital treatment in the government and UNHCR hospitals is hard because of homophobia and delays on LGBT people. For the love and support of one another, we love you.

#lgbt pride #asian lgbtq dramas #lgbtqa #lgbt #lgbt art #gaystagram #gay pride #queer community #queer #queer history #biseuxal #asexual #queer spaces #lesibian #mtf trans #transmasc #trans rights #transgender #lgbt rights

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queer-africa · 2 years

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Hello world, reaching to everyone is one of the members of the queer refugees community from Kenya Kakuma refugee camp. Life has never been good since we came to the camp years ago in 2019 and 2020. Although life is hard, lgbtiqa refugees have continuously joined us in the camp in the latest years leading to a bigger number of lgbt refugees in Kenya.

The camp has over 200,000 total number of refugees with just about 1300 lgbtiqa+ refugees. Its just a smaller ratio of lgbtiqa regugees facing persevution from the bigger number of other refugees.

Look we have a youtube channel for more information and links like petitions and fundraiser are attached to our youtube channel

Our fundraiser below

Hospital treatment in the government and UNHCR hospitals is hard because of homophobia and delays on LGBT people. For the love and support of one another, we love you

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noonesgaylikegatson · 10 months

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It's extremely homophobic when people constantly talk about the privilege of gay men. It's truly the mark of a homophobe to me.

Because, gay men, existing across the world, the majority in countries where gay rights aren't legal. Many living in countries where being openly gay is punishably by law.

Uganda passing a law that essentially makes being gay illegal. A law so strict, that even housing a gay person can put you in jail.

Even when we live in 'progressive" nations, we are still affected by random acts of homophobia. Homophobia is systematic. Enforced. Engrained.

Straight people can pretend to be allies all they want, but when they refuse to address the truth that society views gay men as expendable, and unprotected, and week. And it just sucks when people in our broader LGBT+ and Queer community refuse to the address the truth as well.

Why do straight men know that they can get on grindr and find gay men to rob? Because they know that society doesn't care and the police doesn't care when we go hurt and when we go missing. A serial killer was able to go on for an extended period of time because the police refused to investigate further. And I am not talking about about just Dahmer.

Even this year in NYC, 2023, we had a gang go into clubs and drug gay men to rob them, resulting in the death of two individuals. Only when their families cried out to the media, that this issue was brought to light. And that the police knew about this issue, but didn't even think to warn us. It was gay men with good enough social media followings that had to sound the alarm. Thankfully the gang was caught.

We also had in NYC, a young black teenage boy murdered and his body burned and left on the train tracks. His assailants were caught.

A tiktok went viral recently of a brother coming to his neighbor's house to use their phone to call his dad, because his brother killed himself. His brother had came out as gay to the family, and was accepted and loved and then returned to school, and came out and was horribly bullied. He took his own life.

With teachers being called groomers for being gay, gay authors having their books taken down. Sending death threats to drag queens.

So when people are constantly talking about the privilege of gay men, I really do think they're a homophobe. Because, we have so many things going on that we need to talk about and need to address, but you're more focused on telling us to take a backseat because we have so much? Every group has their privileges and privileged. Yet, that doesn't' negate the suffering that they face from systemic discrimination.

Why do you not want to have a real conversation?

#gmadi #gay men #homophobia

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 8 months

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By: Jimmy Bangash

In Muslim communities, homosexuality is intrinsically linked to anxiety, intimidation, violence, and, in some cases, death. For many, it involves living a closeted existence for fear of being ostracised or disowned. Islamic theological teachings, disseminated by religious institutions and espoused by community leaders, range from preaching for our execution to advising us to live a life of celibacy. Yet voices on the left, historically a stronghold of LGBT support, do not sufficiently decry the abysmal treatment of gay and bi people of Muslim heritage, nor do they adequately mobilize against this specific and brutal form of homophobia.

This piece will scrutinize homophobia in the Muslim community and explore the left’s reluctance to criticize it in a consistent and productive manner. It will not explore the growth of the LGBT Muslim movement which champions equality and representation of LGBT individuals; rather it will focus on the dominant, wider Muslim community’s response to homosexuality.

Homophobia in the Muslim World

It is not a spurious exaggeration to claim homophobia is more widespread among Muslims than within other religious communities. Rather, statistically relevant polls of social attitudes consistently support the truth of these claims. This evidence provides a bleak picture, particularly when assessing attitudes in Muslim-Majority countries from which western diaspora communities originate.

A 2017 American poll found that 51% of Muslim respondents expressed support for marriage equality, an increased figure over previous years – yet 34% still opposed it. Media outlets disingenuously hailed this 51% as some type of success over Christianity, citing the figure to justify headlines such as “Majority of U.S. Muslims Now Support Gay Marriage, While white Evangelical Christians Remain Opposed.” Noteworthy in this attempt at obfuscation is the comparison between a conservative faction of Christians against a combined figure of liberal and conservative Muslims. In a more honest comparison between conservative Christians and Muslims, the data shows a far more damning portrayal of the conservative Muslim community.

Within Britain, where Muslims are more conservative than their US counterparts, the 2009 Gallup Coexist Index poll asked 500 Muslims if they believed homosexual acts were morally acceptable. 100% agreed that they were not, uniformly presenting homosexual acts as immoral. In the years since, there has been some positive traction around UK Muslims’ attitudes toward homosexuality; however, the picture remains oppressive. Most notably, a 2015 ICM poll found that 52% of British Muslims felt homosexuality should be illegal, with only 18% stating it should be legal. Equally damning was that 47% felt it was unacceptable for gay people to be allowed to work as teachers.

At an international level, the data around Islamic Homophobia is even more alarming. A 2013 PEW global study on Muslim Attitudes reported an almost unilateral condemnation of homosexuality in Muslim communities around the world. Countries expressing the highest acceptance of homosexuality among their Muslim population were Uganda (12%), Mozambique (11%), and Bangladesh (10%), with the other 37 countries, all Muslim-majority, polled showing less than 10%.

All 8 states or territories that mandate the death penalty for homosexuality are Muslim-majority. Among those that do not, many imprison people for being LGBT instead. All of these punishments are derived from mainstream interpretations of Sharia Law and Islamic Jurisprudence, which positions homosexuality as a major sin often equated to Sodomy and adultery. Where people are executed for the crime of being LGBT, the preferred methods of execution are public hanging or public stoning. Unsurprisingly, this international climate of execution and imprisonment encourages mob violence towards LGBT people.

In Brunei, where existing laws already made homosexuality punishable by imprisonment for up to 10 years, an attempt was made in 2019 to introduce the death penalty (by stoning) for convicted offenders despite a long-standing moratorium on executions for any crime. Justified by a new penal code that reflected a strict interpretation of Sharia Law, the policy led to a significant global outcry, which included boycotts and celebrity protests. The government of Brunei subsequently conceded to the international pressure, backtracking its position to clarify that the moratorium on the death penalty would extend to those convicted of “crimes” covered under the new legislation.

Pew Research picture:

Impact: Private Sphere

While an international contextualization of Islamic Homophobia is important, it would be erroneous to assume that its detrimental impact on LGBT individuals takes place exclusively in faraway places such as Afghanistan and Iran. In the West, honor culture – a community mechanism of social control in which coercive tactics such as shunning, loss of community status, and shaming are utilized to pressure family members to take corrective action against those who do not conform to Islamic rules – often thrives within Muslim communities.

In 2017, Jahed Choudhury, a UK Muslim of Bangladeshi heritage, married his white partner in what was called “the first Muslim Gay wedding.” He was featured in the press with his husband and interviewed on national television. Some weeks later, he told a BBC interviewer that members of the Muslim community spat at him in the street. He also revealed that he was receiving hate comments on social media and described a specific message from someone in the community threatening to throw acid on him the next time they saw him. Choudhury then apologized to the Muslim community on national television for the offense of having married his same-sex partner so publicly. In other words, the threats of violence and intimidation were successful.

In 2017, Mahad Olad, a gay American ex-Muslim, was invited to travel to Kenya by his family, who are part of the Somali diaspora community. When they arrived, his mother confiscated Olad’s passport, and informed him that she was aware he was gay and that he had left Islam. In order to “save” him, she had decided to send him to Somali Sheikhs who would bring him back to Islam and make him straight. Only with the assistance of Ex-Muslims of North America was Olad able to escape his kidnappers and return to the USA.

In another 2017 incident, Siddika Reza, who was Secretary General of the Islamic faith organization NASIMCO (the Organization of North American Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Communities), attended the public, same-sex marriage of her son to his fiancé. After she shared pictures of the wedding on her social media account, more than 1000 members of the Shia Muslim community signed a petition calling for her to resign, on the grounds that her endorsement of her son’s marriage “goes against the legitimate majoritarian interpretations of Jaffari fiqh, which NASIMCO must uphold” – essentially, claiming that public endorsement of her son’s wedding was endorsement of sin and was therefore un-Islamic.

The result? Reza resigned from her post. The Muslim community’s social coercion was successful in censuring a member for being too accepting; in this case, it ensured that a mother’s acceptance of her son was suitably punished.

In 2019, Seran M (full name undisclosed), a Swiss 17-year-old of Iraqi heritage, awoke in bed with his father standing over him holding a knife and shouting, “Are you gay? Are you gay?” The father then proceeded to slit Seran’s throat. Fortunately, the teen was able to scramble over a balcony and obtain aid from his neighbours; he was put into an induced coma at a hospital and managed to survive.

While these overt displays of Islamic homophobia are reported by the media, it is imperative to understand how much remains hidden. Many LGBT people of Muslim heritage are forced to live closeted lifestyles to avoid facing these kinds of consequences, with some going as far as to have sham marriages in order to avoid detection. The controlling mechanism of honor culture often causes relatives to buckle under community pressure and disown their kin, tearing families apart and causing traumatic psychological repercussions for the victims.

Impact: Public Sphere

The influence of Islamic homophobia is not limited to the private domestic sphere. Its adherents’ ambitions are to ensure that LGBT rights do not achieve acceptance and that homosexuality is not normalized within wider society, driving them to take their charge into the public arena.

In 2019, Anderton Park School in Brimingham, UK, was the target of protest from members of the Birmingham Muslim community over a primary school education program named “No Outsiders,” as well as other material which they claimed furthered the “gay agenda.” Prior to a court injunction forcing relocation, the protest was held immediately outside the school gates, creating a frightening and intimidating environment for students inside. Videos can be found online of adults from the Birmingham Muslim community shouting “Shame! Shame! Shame!” through megaphones at the school gates, with children in their midst encouraged to chant along. Such deplorable conduct must have had a detrimental impact on any adolescent present who was coming to terms with their sexuality. These protests continued for approximately nine months and included the display of banners which read, “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”

In an effort to show support with a head teacher who had refused to cave to the pressure, LGBT individuals from Birmingham decided to go to the school and hang signs of solidarity, such as pictures of hearts and rainbows, on the school gates. They decided to do this at night so that they would not encounter the protesters and risk direct conflict. Unfortunately, they had not considered that it was Ramadan, and that the Muslim community would be awake late at night, eating before fasting again the next day. In video footage of the resulting confrontation, male members of the Muslim community can be seen creating a climate of fear and intimidation, shouting at LGBT people for coming into “our community.”

Eventually, some Muslim men began throwing eggs at the LGBT people, who then departed, shaken by the entire episode. Their symbols of support on the school gates were subsequently vandalized.

The protests, eventually, were permanently banned by the courts, but it is noteworthy that Anderton Park school suspended the teaching of the “No Outsiders” program for a significant period of time – a definite win for the forces that perpetuate Islamic Homophobia.

Betrayal by the Left

Given the data and visible detrimental impact, one would expect the left, which generally sees itself as a bastion of support for LGBT rights, to champion the challenge against Islamic homophobia. Regrettably, this is not the case. Consider the outcry we see when cake-baking Christians refuse business services to LGBT people; the widespread vocal condemnation from the left reaches across continents. Similarly, there is leftist public outcry around Christian conversion therapy, galvanizing an entire movement for its legislative prohibition. Such action is mobilized by LGBT organizations, political commentators, activists, human rights organizations and even celebrities, who use rhetoric in which the Christian faith is often lambasted, ridiculed, and positioned as archaic and irrelevant – yet no such outcry is forthcoming when Islamic homophobia rears its head. The left remains silent when, for example, Muslim clerics attempt to exorcize gay demons from members of the Muslim community.

As if the left’s silence was not detrimental enough to LGBT rights, its accusations of racism and Islamophobia towards those who seek to criticize Islamic homophobia are a blatant betrayal.

At the Birmingham school protests referenced above, the LGBT community decided to hold a counter protest after the courts had forced the Muslim protesters to move away from the school gates to a more distant location. A small contingent of people, predominantly white, and armed with guitars and rainbow flags, stood across the road from the Muslim protesters, strumming and singing along to love songs. Days later, in a national newspaper, Saima Razzaq, a local Muslim activist who describes herself as “queer,” stated that the actions of white LGBT counter protesters “reek[ed] of a colonial mindset.” Razzaq had been instrumental in the Birmingham community’s response to the homophobic protests, but instead of welcoming the support of white allies, she characterized them as “white saviours” and declared that “the answers have to come from within our community.”

The message was clear: you cannot champion LGBT rights in the UK if you are white and your homophobic opposition is non-white, and to do so renders you racist and neo-colonialist. It did not matter that those Muslims who were protesting LGBT education had made it clear that they wanted it stopped on a nationwide level in a white majority country. Only people of the same color and faith were permitted to lead this challenge. Universal human rights could no longer be fought for universally.

At the 2017 London Pride march, the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) marched to challenge Islamic Homophobia – with particular focus on Chechnya, where reports of LGBT persecution and gay concentration camps had outraged the community. They carried banners listing the countries that mandated the death penalty for homosexuality, and held witty, provocative placards and signs poking fun at Islam. Near them, a separate contingent of Pride marchers held signs poking fun at Christianity. Pride, after all, had always been a safe place to criticize homophobia whether it was religious, political or cultural.

During the march, police descended on CEMB to tell them that their signs were offensive and requested they be put away. However, they did not accost the holders of signs mocking Christianity. CEMB declined the request and continued to march with their banners and signs.

Days later, the East London Mosque wrote a formal complaint to the Pride organization citing its objection to being named as a mosque which “incited murder and hatred of LGBT.” Imaan, a Muslim LGBT organization, issued a press release condemning the protest. Both organizations claimed the placards within the protest were Islamophobic and caused harm to Muslim people. Pride issued a statement to a national newspaper in which they said they would not tolerate Islamophobia, then suspended CEMB from marching in subsequent Pride marches pending an investigation. The investigation took 8 months, but in the end CEMB was cleared of the charges and eventually able to participate in the following year’s march without any restrictions.

Nevertheless, a message was communicated to the wider public that criticism of Islamic Homophobia is unacceptable. In this case it did not matter that some of the critics were Muslim and others Ex-Muslim. It did not matter that almost all the protesters were diaspora and refugees, individuals who had grown up and lived under Islam and were from Muslim families. It did not matter that many of them had fled countries and communities where imprisonment or death were the penalty for their sexuality. Any criticism of Islamic Homophobia was deemed Islamophobic (anti-Muslim) and racist.

In 2020, the iconic reality show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” invited actor Jeff Goldblum to appear as a guest judge. The drag queen competitors walked a runway with the American “Stars and Stripes” as the theme. Iranian-Canadian contestant Jackie Cox wore a red-striped kaftan and a blue hijab outlined with 50 silver stars; she stated, “You can be Middle-Eastern, you can be Muslim, and you can still be American.”

Goldblum, prompted by the drag artist’s outfit, queried, “Is there something in this religion that is anti-homosexuality and anti-woman? Does that complicate the issue? I'm just raising it and thinking out loud and maybe being stupid.” RuPaul responded that the presentation was complex, and that Drag had “always shaken the tree.”

Social and mainstream media erupted with condemnations of Goldblum’s comment, accusing him of racism and Islamophobia. His comments were labelled as dangerous. The Muslim Advocates organization issued a statement urging Goldblum to apologize; they claimed, “To not apologize for these comments is a silent endorsement of anti-Muslim bigotry.” In other words, yet another message of condemnation for those who seek to question Islamic Homophobia (as well as Islamic sexism in this case), and such questioning was characterized as being anti-Muslim.

There is a painful irony that cannot be missed in a gay man of Iranian heritage (Jackie Cox) wearing a hijab to symbolize Muslim women. Muslim women in Iran have long struggled against mandatory hijab and forced veiling laws. As movements such as white Wednesday have gained momentum in recent years, Iranian women are increasingly resisting and defying the hijab. Theocratic and misogynistic laws allow women to be punished for appearing in public with their hair showing. The BBC reports that 35 women have been arrested since 2017 in the capital city of Tehran alone. Some of these women reported being tortured and beaten.

While this betrayal by the left is abysmal, its attempt to police an audience’s response to Jackie’s art is nothing short of an Orwellian dystopia. Through his art, a drag performer was able to express his “misgivings” about the way LGBT people are treated in Muslim communities and provoke questions about the subject from his audience. Yet, the response from the left was to throw accusations of racism at that audience and eschew any useful dialogue around the real issue at hand. The message was again clear: even when presented with art by and about queer people of Muslim heritage, one may not scrutinize or question Islamic Homophobia. All dialogue around the subject must place Islam in a positive light; to do otherwise is anti-Muslim, Islamophobic, and racist.

Fortunately, Goldblum did not issue an apology – but neither has the Iranian government apologized for its Islamic- and Sharia- inspired execution of LGBT people. Iran still applies the death penalty for the “crime” of two people of the same sex loving each other. Muslim Advocacy group is quick to outrage over a scene on RuPaul’s Drag Race, but it does not appear to have written to the Iranian government to request an apology for state-sanctioned murder, nor has it declared the murder of gay and bi Muslim people in Iran to be anti-Muslim.

Islam is not a Race

The word Islamophobia is a deliberate conflation that blends criticism of an ideology (Islam) with criticism of a people (Muslims). This allows the silencing of any critics of Islam through the accusation of Islamophobia, which carries an inferred accusation of hatred against Muslims – something which would be far better described as Muslimophobia or anti-Muslim bigotry. Due to this conflation, the fear of being accused of Islamophobia makes individuals hesitant to highlight the abhorrent nature of Islamic homophobia, its theological roots, and the corresponding Islamic jurisprudence that results in the ongoing persecution of LGBT people.

Islam is a set of ideas in exactly the same way that Christianity, Capitalism, Communism and Hinduism are all sets of ideas. Ideas must be open to scrutiny, assessment and criticism. They must be open to satire and ridicule. Criticism of ideas leads to societal advancement, as can be seen in the widespread replacement of superstition with reason and the scientific method. Stifling criticism of Islam ultimately hurts Muslims and individuals of Muslim heritage; such censorship enables regressive and harmful practices (such as gay Islamic exorcisms in the UK) to continue, rather than to be scrutinized and stopped.

A majority of adherents to an ideology may be part of a particular racial demographic, whether in reality or in popular imagination. Criticism of that ideology is not, by default, a criticism of the racial demographic. If it were, one could argue that criticism of Capitalism is anti-white, criticism of Communism is anti-Chinese, and criticism of Hinduism is anti-South Asian/Indian. And it’s important to remember that in any case, Muslims are a very racially and ethnically diverse group.

Muslims are people and as such must be protected from bigotry. While all bigotry is unacceptable, we must acknowledge that using facts to highlight problematic beliefs and attitudes within the Muslim community is not bigotry – particularly when the facts themselves highlight rampant discrimination towards a sexual minority that is often in need of protection. Highlighting homophobic aggression and persecution is a responsibility that falls upon civil society, and that responsibility includes Islamic homophobia.

It is hypocritical of the left to allow consistent highlighting and condemnation of Christian homophobia and to position Christians (and, by presumed extension, white people) as robust, rational, critical thinkers able to withstand that criticism while characterizing Muslims as fragile “brown people” in need of protection from cognitive dissonance and critical thinking. This adherence to “Islamic fragility” is racist, paternalistic and patronizing.

Any focus on Islamic homophobia is inevitably challenged by the left with the question, “What about Christians?” It is perfectly acceptable to focus on one specific form of homophobia. In fact, it is essential that this be done, and in so doing it is appropriate to focus on the worst forms of homophobia. Attempting to address Islamic homophobia using an approach tailored to Christian homophobia, or a model designed for tackling homophobia in China, will miss many of the nuances particular to the Islamic faith. It will also be rendered meaningless for a Muslim audience who, by and large, consider Christianity or atheism to be erroneous or even heresy.

A specific focus on Islamic Homophobia allows focused compilation and assessment of data, theology, history, and attitudes. This then leads to specific suggestions for solutions, resource allocation, accountability and timelines for improvement. In order to plan specific remedial measures, we must look at the specific issue.

We must not be silenced by accusations of Islamophobia or racism in our efforts to eradicate the most pernicious form of homophobia that currently persecutes LGBT people across the globe. Rather, we must stand resolute and increase our scrutiny of Islamic homophobia, holding it and the Muslim community to the same standards to which we hold the rest of society. To do anything less is the bigotry of low expectations, and a racist double standard.

Notice that at no point does anyone actually refute the - completely, unambiguously true - fact of Islam being explicitly anti-gay.

https://quranx.com/4.16

If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, Leave them alone; for Allah is Oft-returning, Most Merciful.

https://quranx.com/7.80-83

We also (sent) Lut: He said to his people: "Do ye commit lewdness such as no people in creation (ever) committed before you? "For ye practise your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds." And his people gave no answer but this: they said, "Drive them out of your city: these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!" But we saved him and his family, except his wife: she was of those who legged behind.

https://quranx.com/27.54-58

(We also sent) Lut (as a messenger): behold, He said to his people, "Do ye do what is shameful though ye see (its iniquity)? Would ye really approach men in your lusts rather than women? Nay, ye are a people (grossly) ignorant! But his people gave no other answer but this: they said, "Drive out the followers of Lut from your city: these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!" But We saved him and his family, except his wife; her We destined to be of those who lagged behind. And We rained down on them a shower (of brimstone): and evil was the shower on those who were admonished (but heeded not)!

https://quranx.com/Hadith/Bukhari/USC-MSA/Volume-7/Book-72/Hadith-774/

Narrated Ibn `Abbas: The Prophet (ﷺ) cursed effeminate men (those men who are in the similitude (assume the manners of women) and those women who assume the manners of men, and he said, "Turn them out of your houses." The Prophet (ﷺ) turned out such-and-such man, and `Umar turned out such-and-such woman.

https://quranx.com/Hadith/AbuDawud/USC-MSA/Book-31/Hadith-4007/

Narrated AbuSa'id al-Khudri: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: A man should not look at the private parts of another man, and a woman should not look at the private parts of another woman. A man should not lie with another man without wearing lower garment under one cover; and a woman should not be lie with another woman without wearing lower garment under one cover.

https://quranx.com/Hadith/AbuDawud/USC-MSA/Book-38/Hadith-4447/

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If you find anyone doing as Lot's people did, kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done.

Stop defending an ideology that hates you or the people you care about.

#Islam #Jimmy Bangash #criticism of islam #homophobia #anti gay #islam for gays #gays for islam #religion #islamic homophobia #religion is a mental illness

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inkspillforthecause · 6 months

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The history of the acronym ‘LGBTQIA+’

The acronym ‘LGBTQIA+’ is used to describe those identifying outside of the gender and sexuality norms. The acronym stands for ‘Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual/Aromantic, plus’ each of which is a separate identity within the community. But how did this acronym come to be? And how can an acronym be so defining of a cause?

The term ‘homosexual’ had gained a negative connotation in the United states of America, even now it is only used in specific circumstances. The word ‘Gay’ then filled the linguistic gap and gained popularity in the 1970s, as it did not refer explicitly to sexual activity. As time went on, the word ‘Lesbian’ also became more widely known. However, disputes over what the main political aim should be; gay rights or feminism, led to a large number of lesbians branching off. This created other, smaller, social groups; one such example being the ‘Daughters of Bilitis’ who were the first lesbian civil rights activists. They eventually disbanded due to the idea that ‘butches’ and ‘femmes’ were heteronormative and patriarchal.

In the late 1970s or early 1980s, there was a push for bisexuality and transgender inclusion. After the relief felt post the stonewall riots, there was less acceptance of bisexuality leading to the misguided belief of bisexuals being men or women too scared to come out as gay. Transphobia was also common with the idea that these people were simply upholding stereotypes and traditional norms. These beliefs have been carried forth by parts of the community even to modern day, with the idea that ‘Transgender’ should be removed from the acronym.

Around 1988, the acronym ‘LGBT’ had solidified as a term used for the queer community throughout the United States. Since then the acronym has evolved and adapted to be more inclusive of an increasing number of marginalised groups, each adaption carries controversy with it.

The addition of the letter ‘Q’ includes ‘queer’ or ‘questioning’ people into the community. The word ‘Queer’ was often used as an insult and has since been reclaimed by the community. This has led to the development of ‘LGBTQ’ and ‘LGBTQQ’, however many believe that the word ‘queer’ should not be associated with the community and this argument has carried over to this day.

Around the same time, ‘GLBT’ came into existence– this was fundamentally the same, but had ‘Gay’ in front of ‘Lesbian’. The order in which the letters appeared was not standardised in any way which led to international discrepancies between the queer communities, Spain uses LGTB due to their specific preferences.

Other sexualities and gender identifications were recognised under the label of either bisexual or transgender. This is when the use of ‘LGBT+’ began gaining popularity since it meant ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and all other related identities’, others began using a letter like ‘U’ for unknowing, or ‘C’ for curious. There was a pull in many directions with a call for the addition of an ‘H’ for ‘HIV infected person’, a ‘P’ for those in polyamorous relationships, and an ‘O’ for ‘other'.

In 1990, the community and activists began to take in different cultures’ approaches to gender. ‘TS’ or ‘2S’ was used to represent ‘Two Spirit’ people, these are people indigenous to America who use to describe people fulfilling a traditional third gender. In India, ‘LGBTIH’ is sometimes used to include the third gender of ‘Hijra’ and related identities.

At this point, it becomes difficult to pinpoint when exactly the acronym evolved as it was happening through speech alone. Sometime during the early 2010s, the addition of ‘Intersex’ was controversial as many believed that it should fall under the ‘transgender’ label. Intersex people, too, were against the addition as they believed it impeded the progress being made on the rights of intersex people. Julius Kaggawa of the SIPD Uganda wrote that while the queer community ‘offers us a place of relative safety, it is also oblivious to our specific needs’. Emi Koyama has written that the LGBT community could fail to recognise intersex-specific struggles.

In roughly 2015, aromanticism and asexuality became more accepted and understood and joined the community and therefore the acronym. The ‘A’ in ‘LGBTQIA+’ stands for ‘Asexuality’, ‘Aromanticism’, ‘A-spec’, and ‘Agender’, as well as the related communities. People outside the community have claimed that the ‘A’ stood for ‘Ally’, which was met with immediate contradiction as it was erasure of part of the queer community.

The acronym is still debated to this day as many use a shorter version; ‘LGBTQ+’ and others argue that it is queer erasure. People still call for the removal of transgender as they believe the community should be focused on sexuality, and there is still bisexual and asexual erasure by a large party within the community. However, ‘LGBTQIA+’ is recognised as the full acronym to describe the queer community.

Sources: ‘The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health: A Practitioner's Guide to Service’ by Michael D. Shankle, ‘Sipdug.org’, ‘The Transfeminist Manifesto’ by Emi Koyama, ‘From LGBT to LGBTQIA+: The evolving recognition of identity’ by Erin Blakemore.

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inclusionists who think and try to force everyone else into believing that anyone who isn’t vanilla and/or is in a heterosexual relationship actually is kweer is so funny, but then i remember that they’re an actual reason why the lgb community is what it is today and i’m horrified. being in the lgbt+ community used to mean something, but now a heterosexual into bdsm or a furry or a person who identifies as one of the variations of gender fluid or thinks that because they’re a biological male that wears skirts or a furry or a male who sexualizes lesbians and is super into mff threesomes or a pedophile or would be ok with potentially dating a trans/nonbinary person kweer or other while apart of the lgbt community and so much more is wild. so called kweer/lgbtqiap2s+ people are more concerned with being called the right pronouns and having drag queens read books to children care about actual hate crimes and discrimination towards same sex attracted individuals in the western world and refuses to acknowledge other countries like uganda who declared homosexuality a crime that will receive the death sentence. a server calling you “sir” is not the same as being murdered for your sexuality, sir. and people wonder why there’s an increasingly number of people against lgb’s, but then again who cares it’s really the transgender women who have it worst in the whole entire world out of all of human history 🙄

inclus can suck my ass they're so obnoxious they literally bring back terrible memories of when i was on exclus twitter with other lesbians and they constantly attacked us for being lesbians even while we tried to placate them with all the libfem buzz words we truly believed lol like. they really all have childish mentalities and heads stuffed with cotton to believe what they do about how the world works.

#like at least i can agree w exclus arguments about the lgbt community in many regards bc inclus people are just straight up crazy fucks #like they really think any form of seeming deviancy = kweer which they use as a countrt culture when our sexualitites as lgb individuals is #not a fucking counter culture its our lives

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