LGBTQ+ Muslim Experience

<p><em>The LGBTQ+ Muslim Experience</em> presents an accessible, applied discussion of transformative and intersectional approaches to LGBTQ+ Muslim research, training and clinical practice. The book asserts that LGBTQ+ Muslims can agentively build resilience pathways as they negotiate multiple minority identities and stressors. Through consciously recognizing the power-laden contexts of both conflict and development, scholars and clinicians can partner with multiple minority populations such as LGBTQ+ Muslims as they pursue social justice and enact their own transformative development. </p><p>To this end, this book aims to address four goals: (1) to amplify the voices of both sexual and gender minority Muslims; (2) to acknowledge the intersectional challenges and stressors that LGBTQ+ Muslims encounter as a multiple minority group; (3) to highlight LGBTQ+ Muslims’ relational and cultural resilience tools and (4) to introduce transformative intersectional psychology frameworks for future research and clinical practice with sexual and gender minority people of faith. </p><p>The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the <i>Journal of Homosexuality</i>.</p> <p>1. Introduction: Incorporating Transformative Intersectional Psychology (TIP) into Our Understanding of LGBTQ Muslims’ Lived Experiences, Challenges, and Growth 2. Spirituality and Religious Engagement, Community Involvement, Outness, and Family Support: Influence on LGBT+ <em>Muslim Well-Being</em> 3. Coming Home to One’s Self: Butch Muslim Masculinities and Negotiations of Piety, Sex, and Parenthood in Singapore 4. Voices of Resistance and Agency: LBTQ Muslim Women Living Out Intersectional Lives in North America 5. "<em>I feel as if I’m lying to them</em>": Exploring Lesbian Muslims’ Experiences of Rejection, Support, and Depression 6. This Being is a Guest House: Embracing Humility, Liberation & Strengths in Therapy with Sexual and Gender Diverse Muslims </p>