Queer Muslims & Allies Conference in LA

Sessions and Workshops to Include: * Sufism for Queer Muslims * Coming Out – Where No One Has Gone Before? * HIV/AIDS and Its Impact on LGBTIQ Muslims * Media Skills 101 * Islam 201 – Things You Never Learned in Sunday School * Expanding Our Community: Moving Beyond Traditional Ethnic Identities * Developing a Human Rights Agenda for Muslim Sexual and Gender Minorities * How to be an Effective Ally * Sex in Islam – What’s Love Got to do With It? * Being Queer and Muslim: Overcoming the Oxymoron * Caucuses * Our Future in the Progressive Muslim Movement * Merging Multiple Identities: Being Queer and Arab * Thematic and Contextual Readings of the Story of Lut (Lot) * The State of LGBTIQ Muslims in North America * History of Al-Fatiha and the Queer Muslim Movement in North America * Challenges Facing Muslim Lesbian and Bisexual Women * Salaat 101 – An Introduction to Prayer for Queer Muslims * Building a Successful Queer Muslim Social / Support Group * Special Events Include: Community Reception Cultural Festival & Award Ceremony First Ever Queer Muslim Film Festival