So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history.
Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service.
I just got back from a BBQ with a lesbian social group and let me just say
never ever think that it’s too late. 17 or 21 or 25 may feel old, but today I met a lady that realized she was a lesbian at 45 – after marrying a man and having three kids. now she has a girlfriend, and she manages a brunch group with other lesbians.
it’s easy to feel like you’ve lost so much time to self doubt or fear, and it’s okay to mourn that lost time. but it’s never too late to find happiness in who you are.
Reminder: trans Muslims and gay Muslims exist and we’re not going anywhere.
The amount of support that this post has gotten is, quite honestly, incredible. LGBT Muslims are constantly forgotten and ignored because people from both the LGBT community and the Muslim community view our existence as a contradiction or an impossibility. It’s time that people acknowledge us and our experiences with islamophobia and homophobia/transphobia because like I said: we’re not going anywhere.
Those numbers are fairly consistent with self-identified Christians in the same country. Ergo, if you live in the U.S. and can get your head around LGBT+ Christians, you should have no trouble throwing the ol’ brain lasso around LGBT+ Muslims.
When given the ability to live in a true democracy with freedom of religion, many people have no trouble reconciling their faith with their identity, or the identities of others. We should all understand that and support it, and at the same time, never forget about those trapped in the terrible laws of hostile governments.
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