Hey there— thanks for reading our open letter about marriage equality! Interested in learning more? Here’s a list to get you started of resources on LGBT issues and advocacy within Muslim communities. Please check these sites out— and feel free to share and respond with your own thoughts!
— Reza Aslan and Hasan Minhaj
Muslims in Support of LGBTQI Equality
- A Muslim American’s Thoughts on Gay Marriage
- American Muslims Supporting Gay Marriage Speak Up
- Largest U.S. Muslim Organization Supports LGBT Anti-Discrimination Bill
- Marriage Equality is Islamic and American
- Progressive Muslims Launch Gay-Friendly, Women-Led Mosques in Attempt to Reform American Islam
- Queer Muslims Deserve More than Scriptural Zealotry
- Stop Trying to Split Gays and Muslims
- These Young Americans are Just as Overjoyed About Marriage Being a Legal Right as You Are
- Why I Support Same-Sex Marriage: A Religious Argument in Solidarity
LGBTQI Muslim Resource Organizations
- Arabs for Tolerance
- LGBT Muslims Retreat
- LGBT Muslims and Their Allies
- Light of Reform Mosque
- Mecca Institute
- Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD)
- Muslims Against Homophobia and LGBT Hate
- Muslims for Progressive Values
LGBTQI Muslim Information Resources
- Debating Homosexuality
- Hidden Voices: The Lives of LGBT Muslims
- Islamic Texts: A Source of Acceptance for Queer Individuals into Mainstream Muslim Society
- Just Me and My Allah: A Queer Muslim Photo Project
- Just Me and My Allah: Interviews with Queer Muslims
- LGBT Muslims
- Muslim and Gay: Islam Begins to Confront the Issue
- Muslim LGBT Inclusion Project
- Queer Jihad
- Quranic Values as an Inspiration for Gay Marriage
- Same-Sex Relationships and the Fluidity of Marriage in Islamic History
- Sexual Diversity in Islam: Is There Room in Islam for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Muslims?
- Stances of Faith on LGBT Issues: Islam— Sunni and Shi’a
- To Be Young, Muslim and American
- What Does Islam Really Say About Gay People?
- What it’s Like to Grow Up a Lesbian in Saudi Arabia
LGBTQI Muslim Blogs
Online Communities for LGBTQI Muslims
Books about LGBTQI Muslims
- Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Muslims
- Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Muslims
- Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
- Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex and Intimacy
Films about LGBTQI Muslims
- A Jihad for Love
- A Sinner in Mecca
- Al Nisa: Black Muslim Women in Atlanta’s Gay Mecca
- I am Gay and Muslim
- Naz + Maalik
Videos about LGBTQI Muslims
- Al Jazeera America: Coming Out: Growing up Gay and Muslim in America
- Arabs for Tolerance: Dispelling Negative and Harmful Myths about LGBT Arabs
- Moral Courage Project: I Came Out and My Muslim Dad Stood by Me
- Muslims for Progressive Values: LGBTQI Lecture Series
Articles about America’s first openly gay Imam
- Huffington Post: 6 Questions with a Gay Imam, Daayiee Abdullah
- Vice: Life as a Gay Imam Isn’t as Bad as it Sounds
- Al Jazeera America: Meet America’s first openly gay imam
Our Fellow American Muslims 
I liked your outreach to those who aren’t “there” yet. I try to make the same case to the American Christian community – respectfully and gently.
I am sure the Quran is much like the Bible in that there is a lot of content that you can engage in many ways depending on how you are “wired”
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Reza and Hassan, thanks for your commentary and support for LGBTQIA Muslims. Great to be mentioned in an issue that has its important in respecting human rights are for all people. Continued support.
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Reza and Hassan, your letter reaches all ethnicity. It was very informative.
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Jazahki allah khair for the work that you do!
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Great admirer of you, Reza. Loved the article you penned with Hassan. As an atheist, I firmly believe in the rights of all my fellow citizens. Such a reasonable concept.
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