Imam Daayiee Abdullah arrives by bus, sweaty and lugging a green bag stuffed with a Koran, two books of poetry by Persian mystic Rumi and three Islamic prayer rugs. Tonight, he's speaking to a room ...

WASHINGTON — Imam Daayiee Abdullah arrives by bus, sweaty and lugging a green bag stuffed with a Koran, two books of poetry by Persian mystic Rumi and three Islamic prayer rugs. Tonight, he’s speaking ...

Authorities have identified the Orlando gunman as 29-year-old Omar Mateen. He was born in 1986 in New York to Afghan parents. Since 2007 Mateen had worked as a security guard at G4S, the largest ...

For Daayiee Abdullah, the past weekend compressed, in sharp relief, both the good and the bad of what it means to be Muslim, black and gay in America. Friday marked the celebratory funeral of boxing ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 He’s black. And he’s Muslim. Think that’s not hard enough? He’s gay. Think that’s still not hard enough? He’s an Imam. And he loves life. Jonathan ...

Daayiee Abdullah, the first Black gay imam in the US, has been remembered as a “gentle, courageous soul”, after he died at the age of 71. The LGBTQ+ activist, who founded Mecca Institute, a ...

The religious right's outrage over the greeting "Happy Holidays" is Grinch-like in its obsession with the trappings of Christmas instead of its meaning. As a gay Muslim, the author finds the season's ...

Two of the world’s three major religions – Christianity and Judaism – have made relatively great strides in welcoming LGBT people into their communities and in considering LGBT equality an issue of ...

What was your reaction to the Orlando mass shootings? I felt a sense of sadness and shock. Being a Black person, when such incidents happen, one hopes that it is not a Black person. Similarly as a ...

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