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The LGBTQ Muslim community is gaining notice in the arts, but mainstream acceptance in their communities lags behind, particularly at mosques. “I don’t go because of that feeling that I cannot be my full self,” says one queer Muslim.
First she was placed in an adult women’s prison, now she’s in a boy’s facility. Supporters decry officials’ indifference to her age and gender identity and are demanding a new law and a new prison commissioner.
Turkey’s 12th annual gay pride march on June 29 featured plenty of outrage over hate crimes and discrimination against lesbian gay, bisexual and transgender people. But for Iranians, the country is still a haven.
After Massachusetts approved such unions in 2004, Catherine Reid wondered about where marriage would lead. “There is no model for how two women go through this process,” she says in this excerpt from “Falling Into Place,” “just steps such as proving that neither one of us has syphilis.”
Sexism-based exclusion runs rampant in these movements, says Julia Serano in this excerpt from “Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive.” In part this is thanks to false assumptions that we need to overcome.
Regulatory reform is expected to gradually improve housing safety for transgender detainees. At the same time the Department of Homeland Security is cutting beds and exploring programs that move at-risk people out of locked-in facilities and into houses and hotels.
During a tour of the only housing unit that ICE sets aside for GBT detainees to live together, one detainee in Santa Ana praised conditions. Lawyers and other advocates are still watching to see if guards’ behavior improves after a sensitivity training this summer. The third of four stories.
For 26-year-old Maryam Jum’a, the story she found in the files of Jordan’s National Commission for Women was too compelling to ignore. She hopes it will help humanize an issue that many in the conservative society still treat as off-limits.
France’s legalization of same-sex marriage on April 23 may not have been possible without her courage and eloquence. “A star is born,” say some media, and her style and courage deserve all the admiration she has won.
LGBT youth of color may have to contend with different factors when dealing with their sexuality and coming out, say Jason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill in the book “LGBT Youth in America’s Schools.” In this excerpt, they explore why and how.