Topic: LGBTQI+

My mother gifted my girlfriend a saree of purple threads, holding my queer family together

I still look for a future in which families like mine, who are both trans and religious in nature, might survive without losing one another

Jaheim Karim
Weekend with Junaid Ahmed: ‘I hope I can inspire other families to accept their children’

The Towie star on being the UK’s first openly gay Muslim reality TV personality, staying connected to his culture, and his love of desi-English breakfast

Helena Wadia
Support services for Muslims in the UK

Here’s a list of faith-sensitive helplines and community resources to reach out to in times of need

Anita Mureithi

I chose to not be a mother so I could be free

I am working on a family tree that is richer and more expansive than tracing the original patriarch
‘A man constructing his own line in life’: on the legacy of Hamad Butt

Contemporaries remember Butt’s influence as a Young British Artist, and call for his work to be recognised as part of a larger canon.
Women and non-binary writers from minority backgrounds are leading a German literature revival

Fatma Aydemir, Ronya Othmann, Aria Aber are leading a wave of novelists from migrant backgrounds winning praise and prizes from international audiences
My Beautiful Laundrette: restoration returns with renewed immediacy

Forty years after it was first released, Hanif Kureishi’s screenplay remains a shining beacon of British cinema
To be transgender and religious is to live a life of tension

In living as I do — Muslim, transgender, whole — I have found a middle ground that feels sacred
Kazim Ali: ‘I don’t stake a claim to being Muslim with a capital M, but it’s what I will always be’

The author and poet on his relationship with writing and religious identity