Salaam Canada Publications

• Community Discussion Guide: For Support Group Facilitators 
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• Do ask, Do Tell? Coming In, Out, & Around as LGBTQ+ Muslims
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• More Than Just Feeling Alone: Understanding LGBTQ+ Muslim Mental Health
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• It's Not A Phase: Support for Family Members of LGBTQ+ Muslims
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• What is Islamophobia? Safety and Resistance
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The development of these publications was made possible through funding from the Inspirit Foundation, Community-Based Research Centre, and the Gay Men's Sexual Health Alliance of Ontario.

Research Study: Supporting Queer Muslims in Social Service Organizations

• BRINGING COMMUNITY TOGETHER:
  Enhancing mainstream Muslim social services to better support queer Muslims
   

• BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS:
  Enhancing LGBTQ+ social services to better support queer Muslims

 

Community Publications: 

• Common Myths & Misconceptions About Homosexuality in Muslim Communities by Imam Muhsin Hendricks (of Al-Ghurbah Foundation) and Sydney Queer Muslims Inc.
   

• Dealing With Being Different: A Resource Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer,
  and Questioning Black Youth - Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention
   

• I’m Muslim and I Might Not Be Straight: A Resource for LGBTQ+ Muslim Youth
  - Advocates for Youth
   

• I'm Muslim and My Gender Doesn't Fit Me: A Resource for Trans Muslim Youth - Advocates for Youth
   

• How to be Culturally Competent When Supporting LGBTQ Muslims - Rahim Thawer
   

• Overview of the Anti-LGBT Law in Egypt (2017)
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• Safe Spaces, Inclusive Services: Support Service Access and Engagement by LGBTIQ+ Muslims- Melbourne Muslim Collective
   

• Silent No More: Trans Communities in Pakistan
   

• What Safer Space Looks Like for a Queer Black Muslim Woman
  - The Body is Not an Apology
   

• Young, Positive, and Telling You Like It Is: A collection of testimonies by young people living with HIV
  - Naz Project London

 

Academic and Journal Articles:

• Islamic Texts: A Source for Acceptance of Queer Individuals into Mainstream Muslim Society
  - Muhsin Hendricks

 

Online Videos and Lectures:

• Brown, trans, queer, Muslim and proud - Sabah Choudrey
   

• Gay Muslims Confront Intersectional Challenges - Associated Press
   

• How Australia’s first gay Imam is ‘saving lives’ - BBC News
   

• How I embrace contradiction as a queer Muslim drag queen - Amrou Al-Kadhi
   

• LGBTQI Lecture Series by Imam Daayiee Abdullah - Muslims for Progressive Values
   

• LGBTQ Muslims in Islam - Junaid Jahangir
   

• Queer & Muslim in America (Interview with Eman Abdelhadi) - First Person
   

• Queer & Muslim: Nothing to Reconcile - Blair Imani
   

• We Resist: A Queer Muslim Perspective - El-Farouk Khaki 
   

• What it’s like being LGBTQ & Muslim - MTV News