ABSTRACT

In recent times, more and more previously closeted Muslim LGBT people are coming out publicly all around the world to show their support toward living fully with their sexual orientation. This chapter examines the relationship between homosexuality and Islam through a feminist rhetorical analysis of the LGBT documentary taped in 12 countries and nine languages. It represents the struggle, persecution, stigma, and danger of Muslim queer people all around the world. The chapter employs a feminist rhetorical approach that considers the voices and discourse of diverse genders that go beyond the binaries of male and female. Feminist rhetoric can incorporate the voice of diverse sexual minority groups such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender and queers in heteronormative societal structures.