Thank you
@SuellaBraverman
- your dog whistle rhetoric made mine, and other people’s day at
@LondonWaterloo
extremely frightening. Your words have inspired racists to terrorise us and make it harder for
@metpoliceuk
to do their job today. You need to resign, NOW
#ThankYouSuella
Really ugly scenes during
@jessphillips
‘ acceptance speech. Absolutely appalling; men shouting down a woman when she’s legitimately won an election is disgraceful and a bad look for our democracy.
Thank you
@SuellaBraverman
- your dog whistle rhetoric made mine, and other people’s day at
@LondonWaterloo
extremely frightening. Your words have inspired racists to terrorise us and make it harder for
@metpoliceuk
to do their job today. You need to resign, NOW
#ThankYouSuella
While you're all here please consider donating to Aswat – Palestinian Feminist Queer Movement for Sexual and Gender Freedoms.
aswat-palestinian-gay-women
I experienced racist
#Islamophobic
abuse at Waterloo station yesterday. Why can’t
@metpoliceuk
use this term to describe the abuse? I was targeted for being brown and having a beard. I was called a terrorist. How much more evidence do you need before seeing this as a hate crime
We are aware of the videos filmed in Waterloo and Victoria stations yesterday which show unacceptable abuse including anti-Semitic language, as well as threatening behaviour.
The railway network, including stations, is policed by
@BTP
. We have spoken with our BTP colleagues and
Can I give a shout-out to
@DebbieChazen
- she's the busker you can hear singing at the start of the video. Her beautiful singing can only be matched by her nerves under pressure and in the face of such ugliness. Girl's just making a living! Give her a round of applause! 🎤🎶
“Israel is the only democracy in the region.”
Meanwhile, in Israel showing dissent towards Netanyahu gets you a water cannon straight in the face. Is that democracy?
@sarahditum
@NathanJSTT
Ah yes, misogyny, that hatred of femininity derived from a fucked-up gender dynamic that results from *checks notes* being told you have a dodgy haircut 🤔
@NettaBarzilai
You should be disqualified for making a political statement in your speech and you shouldn’t be appropriating the cultures of the world that do not belong to you. Do the right thing and hand back your reward - you don’t deserve it.
#NettaDisqualification
Why not let Muslims speak on what term we use to describe the racism levelled against us? I am a Muslim and I am Gay. I experience Islamophobia and don’t need a white cis man to tell me what term to use to describe the racism levelled against me.
We should drop the term Islamophobia & use anti-Muslim prejudice instead
Protect Muslim people, not Islamic ideas
Islam is an idea & it's often oppressive to women, LGBTs & liberal Muslims
Where Islam has political power (Saudi & Iran etc) it's a dictatorship
@MaryamNamazie
@AfricaFactsZone
This is what really annoys me; there’s a belief in the west that
#Muslim
men are inherently
#misogynistic
and though there’s evidence of it; I have also seen evidence to the contrary. Look at the patience of this man in the face of a violent onslaught from this
#WhiteWoman
"I have been dealing with young people who have been excommunicated from their families," he said. "That is when you have a problem.”
A gay Imam hopes to open one of the first LGBT+ friendly mosques
To all of you that are tweeting me your smoothbrained “Islam Kills Gays” comments as though that’s supposed to trigger me - newsflash 💥 I’m not triggered. The missiles being dropped on Gaza DO NOT discriminate between
#LGBT
non-
#LGBT
nor anti-
#LGBT
most are just CHILDREN!!
Just because I’m gay doesn’t mean I have to stay silent about an entire population being slaughtered.
I find people like this below account devoid of any humanity because they’re willing to excuse the killing of innocent people in Gaza.
Here’s your paedophile grooming gang
@JamesCleverly
will you emulate your predecessor in condemning the entire race and religion these vile monsters belong to? Or does that not fit neatly into the divisive narrative that constitutes her legacy in
@ukhomeoffice
?
@JeannaHoch
Babies do not need to be smothered by a narcissistic mother. Clearly, the baby doesn't remember being 'snuggled' by their mother. Who ever remembers that?? Only the mother does; she's doing it for herself, not the baby. This baby looks perfectly peaceful near to his Dad.
It was a peaceful and beautiful march. Solidarity with the Palestinian people. It's a shame that certain far-right factions tried to intimidate and cause unrest.
Some thoughts on the march yesterday:
1) Even by police estimates this was one of the largest 3 marches in British history. We believe there were at least 800k there and we know many coaches got stuck in traffic and didn't reach the start.
Well that’s me told! 😂 I think children would enjoy their childhood much more if their gender wasn’t constantly being policed by people that think there are ‘girl’ things and ‘boy’ things.
Can I just say, our
@NHS
is absolutely amazing. I was in extreme pain yesterday couldn’t sleep, called
#NHS111
by dialling 111 on my phone and after explaining my symptoms got booked in at
@WhippsCrossHosp
where they performed a surgery and kept me overnight. Staff amazing.
5 years ago today the world lost a person that dedicated his life to helping others, as so many
@NHSuk
professionals do. He had to hide his sexuality from his
#Muslim
family but when he finally came out, they shunned him and he couldn't go on. Be more compassionate to
#LGBTQ
"I'm sure some would say I'm not a proper Muslim, but it's simple," Lak says wryly. "You're born a Muslim and you're born gay, so you are both."
BBC News - LGBT people are 'being made homeless due to religion'
@shaunking
This is where I love being
#Muslim
- we have literally zero depictions of Prophet Muhammad because it’s against the religion. Christians should take a leaf 🍃 out of our holy Qur’an and remove depictions of
#WhiteJesus
. 3..2..1.. cue all the haters PREDICTABLY attack Islam ☪️ >
The Keffiyeh is a very simple piece of clothing that symbolises solidarity with the Palestinian people; no connotations with terrorism. Yet Islamophobic racists like Eve Gerber, wife of
@jasonfurman
feel emboldened enough to stalk and harass people that choose to wear it.
“Thank you for walking through neighborhoods with your terrorist scarf.”
A Harvard graduate student wearing a keffiyeh, was subjected to Islamophobic harassment on campus by Eve Gerber, wife of Jason Furman, professor at Harvard's Kennedy School and a former Obama Admin advisor.
The irony of a European woman trying to pretend to be an African woman with those stupid fake ass dreads coming for the African woman for not being woman enough for her liking cause she doesn’t conform to European standards of woman-ness just SENDS me.
#Imane_Khelif
#Paris2024
What's happening in
#Leicester
is appalling. Stop ✋🏽 these
#LeicesterRiots
now. We are one people and it's the colonisers that divided us. While they crown a new Monarch with OUR diamonds 💎 we do their bidding by fighting with one another. It stops NOW.
@Femi_Sorry
@Tara_Hewitt
@Femi_Sorry
it's important the power rests in the individual themselves to identify their own gender. The most helpful thing u can do is recognise the privilege you have not needing to worry about your
#genderidentity
being discordant to that which a doctor assigned you at birth
We watched as our father (a sub-postmaster) cried after being wrongfully arrested due to faults with the Horizon
#postoffice
system 20 years ago. Paula Vennels has some nerve expecting sympathy after being caught out. She’s venal, wicked, cowardly and evil.
#FuckPaulaVennels
I just came across your tweet Debbie. Can I just say; you have an amazing voice and are a brilliant performer. Your nerves under pressure inspire awe. I'm so sorry your set was momentarily disturbed by the ugliness on display. As you were! 🎤
I’m the busker caught up in this. One minute I’m singing “What A Wonderful World”, the next - this violent ugly hatred. Our world is broken. I don’t know
what the answer is but I know hate isn’t it 💔 🌎
@Femi_Sorry
Why should there be a state where one ethnicity is supreme above all others? Why is it OK for there to be ethnic supremacy in Israel but not ok for there to be white supremacy in the USA and the UK? Make it make sense Femi!
Lovely to see our
@McSaima
in the
@ObserverUK
😃👍🏽🙌🏽
“It isn’t about the kids any more,” says Saima Razzaq, a local Muslim activist who describes herself as “queer”.
Birmingham school row: ‘This is made out to be just Muslims v gays. It’s not’
Thank you for your generously donating for LGBT+ Peer Advocate Faraidun Fakory and his family to flee Afghanistan and relocate to Iran before we can help him reach a safer country.
@sunny_hundal
@MissMMiles
Speaking as a South Asian brown person I think it’s so important we clean up our own house of racism toward the Black community before trying to speak on their experience with is unique and different.
#AntiBlackness
Alhamdulilah 🤲🏽 one day we will completely silence these transphobic, homophobic, biphobic, queerphobic losers and be able to be our whole and authentic Queer Muslim selves without the backchatter. All you critics can do one ☝🏽 we ain’t shutting up!
The BBC has managed to write a long article today celebrating "queer Muslims" without once mentioning the orthodox, mainstream and universally accepted Islamic position that homosexuality is haram.
We reject all western liberal attempts to change our religion. We know what Islam
Last night
@iamferhankhan
and I went to
@edenbirmingham
. The doorman asked for ID and asked if we'd been there before. Then rudely said Eden Bar is a gay & lesbian bar, were we aware of that?? Nice to be profiled, felt very welcoming(!)
My name has only two syllables ‘Fer’ pronounced like the ‘ur’ in ‘occur’ (like “does it occur to you how rude it is to mispronounce my name?”) and ‘han’ like ‘man’ (like “man, your deliberate mispronouncing of my name is
#racist
”)
#SayMyName
correctly!
“The protests are homophobic, because they deny our existence.”
Gay Muslim activist Khakan Qureshi on protests against No Outsiders lessons.
Protester Amir Ahmed denies this, saying they “are accepting of them as individuals, but not their ideology"
Pleased to be starting my
#newjob
today 😊 after one whole year of being off work; I’m glad to have a routine again. A year ago I was
#burntout
after climbing the
#greasypole
of
#corporatelife
and gaining a foothold…
Every time I read this from LGBTQ 🏳️🌈 people that have found the strength to
#comeout
it motivates me even more to help other
#QueerMuslims
#GayMuslims
particularly to find the inner strength they need to accept their authentic selves.
At home for Christmas 🎅🏾 this year I dressed as gay as I could get away with; channeling “in the Navy” by the village people. My Muslim family take baby steps in acceptance and this year was more validating than the last. It’s a PROCESS and takes time and takes love.
#GayMuslim
Thank you for proving what we know already. No one gives a flying f**k what religion or ethnicity you are. No one is going to attack you for who you are at a pro Palestine rally.
Being your authentic self; not having to lie about who you are; speaking your truth. Call it what you will but it’s so beautiful when you’re finally able to do it.
Really feeling this today. I have nephews nieces and sisters that I’m unable to communicate with due to my
#sexuality
. There has been a death in the family and I’ve been shut-out of the grieving process. It’s really hard.
Coming out as LGBT+ means knowing there's parts of your life you may never go back to.
Some relationships may be forever changed. Loved ones don't always love unconditionally.
And it hurts like nothing else.
Grab yourself a copy of this fantastic cover song by
@ShoshanaBean
and help support the services provided by
@LALGBTCenter
💁🏽💖🎶
Shoshana Bean Releases Cover of 'This Is Me' to Support the Los Angeles LGBT Center
Growing up watching Bollywood movies I really loved seeing the Hindu tradition of Holi being celebrated. Holi is the Festival of Colours, Love and Spring so where better to have my very first experience at
@SouthAsianPride
Spring2024 - thank you
@AsifaLahore
for a great event 😍
@Baddiel
@Big_Les_80
@mrdarrenperry
@BinaShah
David; Winston Churchill’s mass murder of people living in the subcontinent were all British citizens under the Raj. The same thing happened. Your distinction doesn’t exist; why aren’t you getting this?
Many Congrats to Motsi Mabuse for her role on Strictly. Ignore washed up and bitter gay white man that can't handle your success!! Let's see him try and deal with
#misogynoir
Louie Spence slams Motsi Mabuse Strictly hiring as 'box-ticking' via
@MetroUK
@Glinner
Graham - deeply disappointing to hear you fearmongering like this. If we didn’t live in a society with such toxic binary gender roles we would be in a much better place. By encouraging children to be more self-accepting of their gender identity we are improving society.
Was going to ignore this, but point 3 makes me very uncomfortable. Adam Yosef is an LGBT Muslim, and you're saying Salma's association with him is homophobic?
yeahh... he's actually not even a
#Muslim
- this goes to show that
#Islamophobia
is a form of
#racism
. The white bigots that harass and intimidate us for our faith also go after other brown people that aren't even Muslim. Don't trust a person that say 'Muslims aren't a race'.
I made a little video to make myself feel better about my family situation. I’ve not been allowed to go home to Scotland for Eid Al-Adha but I’m lucky to have a sister that’s really supportive and she’s as Scottish…