queercomicsconnection:

jedifinnrey:

loonyloomy:

Just wanted to share this coming out story from a guy I saw on First Dates. He came out to his dad when he was 20, and then his mum when he was 21, after trying very hard to hide that part of himself and never really discussing anything like that in their household. Hearing his mother’s response after he explained all that was really gratifying. To all Muslim LGBT+ people, As-Salaam-Alaikum ❤

[Caption: Ten screencaps of a Muslim man sharing his coming out story. “She was really upset and I understood that. / Obviously, as a Muslim woman, I wasn’t expecting her to, / you know, be jumping for joy, ‘Yay, I’ve got a gay son!’ / But when I asked, like, ‘Why have you been crying for so long?’ / She said, ‘I’m not crying because you are who you are, / I’m just crying because you held it inside you for so long / and you felt that you couldn’t tell me, and as a mother / I felt so guilty that I made an environment around you / that you felt that you couldn’t share something so fundamental / about yourself to me.’”]

I think this person’s name is Sameer Poselay!