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In Good Faith

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November 2019

Founded as a safe haven for Indian LGBTQIA+ Muslims, to talk, share, and heal, today The Queer Muslim Project is a movement: a coterie of more than 13,000 followers from all over the world, reshaping the ideas of diversity and inclusion. Founder Rafiul Alom Rahman elaborates...

- Humra Afroz Khan

In Good Faith

A practising LGBTQIA+ member, in any religious set-up, is often faced with an additional predicament: not only are they considered a non-adhering faction (for their sexual orientation) by a majority in the faith, they are sometimes also ostracised by the LGBTQIA+ community for their religious beliefs.

A believer can’t be gay, the former claim. One can’t be queer and religious, the latter opines.

It was this dilemma that Rafiul Alom Rahman wanted to rid the community of—the feeling of being alienated by your own; of being a minority within a minority. Starting at home, he founded The Queer Muslim Project (TQMP), to provide the LGBTQIA+ Muslims a platform to be heard, acknowledged, supported, and belong to.

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