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The Village Voice's Raillan Brooks tackles the topic of being a gay Muslim in the U.S.. Check out that opener:

After coming out three times, you'd think it would get easier. The first time was in 2002, deep in the U.S.'s post–9-11 miasma. My brown skin worked as camouflage; on my mother's advice I'd allowed people to assume I was from some more palatable latitude. For six months I was from Mexico or Brazil, a rude fiction that I nonetheless let continue because I believed it was a matter of survival. But eventually the lying became too much to bear, and at twelve years old I began quietly correcting people: I'm Saudi Arabian and Muslim ("yes, like Osama").