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Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam | @rdispatches

August 26, 2011 islamoyankee

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam | (A)theologies | Religion Dispatches.

As scholar Scott Kugle knows well, to be both Muslim and gay means the possibility of having to “come out twice”—with the likely chance of encountering either homophobia or Islamophobia (or both), depending on the context.

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