Editing LGBTQ people and Islam (section)

====Same-sex marriage====
In 2007, there was a gay party in the [[Morocco|Moroccan]] town of [[Ksar el-Kebir|al-Qasr al-Kabir]]. Rumours spread that this was a gay marriage and more than 600 people took to the streets, condemning the alleged event and protesting against leniency towards homosexuals.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-05-21 |title=Lawyer: Two Moroccans jailed for homosexuality |url=https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2013/05/21/Lawyer-Two-Moroccans-jailed-for-homosexuality- |access-date=2023-07-19 |website=Al Arabiya English |language=en |archive-date=2023-07-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719082420/https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2013/05/21/Lawyer-Two-Moroccans-jailed-for-homosexuality- |url-status=live }}</ref> Several persons who attended the party were detained and eventually six Moroccan men were sentenced to between four and ten months in prison for "homosexuality".<ref>{{cite web|date=12 December 2007|url=http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/12/12/42868.html|title=Al Arabiya: "Morocco sentences gay 'bride' to jail"|work=alarabiya.net|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417024322/http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/12/12/42868.html|archive-date=17 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In [[France]], there was an Islamic same-sex marriage on 18 February 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.france24.com/fr/20120330-france-mariage-homosexuel-musulmans-gay-religion-imam-coran-corps-livre-ludovic-mohamed-zahed|title=FRANCE – Concilier islam et homosexualité, le combat de Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed – France 24|work=France 24|date=30 March 2012|access-date=29 November 2012|archive-date=17 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217121914/http://www.france24.com/fr/20120330-france-mariage-homosexuel-musulmans-gay-religion-imam-coran-corps-livre-ludovic-mohamed-zahed/|url-status=live}}</ref> In Paris in November 2012 a room in a Buddhist prayer hall was used by gay Muslims and called a "gay-friendly mosque",<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20547335|title=Gay-friendly 'mosque' opens in Paris|last1=Banerji|first1=Robin|date=30 November 2012|access-date=12 February 2013|archive-date=21 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921070447/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20547335|url-status=live}}</ref> and a French Islamic website is supporting religious same-sex marriage.<ref>{{cite web |title=Homosexual Muslims – HM2F |url=http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227151103/http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html |archive-date=27 December 2016 |access-date=29 November 2012 |work=homosexuels-musulmans.org}}</ref> The French overseas department of [[Mayotte]], which has a majority-Muslim population, legalized same-sex marriage in 2013, along with the rest of France.

The first American Muslim in the United States Congress, [[Keith Ellison]] (D-MN) said in 2010 that all discrimination against [[LGBTQ]] people is wrong.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://minnesotaindependent.com/74635/bradlee-dean-keith-ellison-is-advancing-sharia-law-through-homosexual-agenda|title=Bradlee Dean: Keith Ellison is advancing Sharia law through 'homosexual agenda'|last1=Birkey|first1=Andy|date=1 December 2010|access-date=15 January 2013|publisher=Minnesota Independent|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114072615/http://minnesotaindependent.com/74635/bradlee-dean-keith-ellison-is-advancing-sharia-law-through-homosexual-agenda|archive-date=14 January 2013}}</ref> He further expressed support for gay marriage stating:<ref>{{cite news|url=http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/keith-ellison-minnesota-marriage-amendment-fail.php|title=Keith Ellison: Minnesota Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment Will Fail|last1=Taintor|first1=David|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121211142044/http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/keith-ellison-minnesota-marriage-amendment-fail.php |archive-date=11 December 2012|date= 9 June 2012 |access-date=16 January 2013}}</ref>

<blockquote>I believe that the right to marry someone who you please is so fundamental it should not be subject to popular approval any more than we should vote on whether blacks should be allowed to sit in the front of the bus.</blockquote>

In 2014, eight men were jailed for three years by a Cairo court after the circulation of a video of them allegedly taking part in a private wedding ceremony between two men on a boat on the Nile.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Tadros|first1=Sherine|title=Crackdown As Men Jailed Over 'Gay Wedding'|url=http://news.sky.com/story/1367670/crackdown-as-men-jailed-over-gay-wedding|access-date=13 November 2014|date=6 November 2014|archive-date=9 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709223932/http://news.sky.com/story/1367670/crackdown-as-men-jailed-over-gay-wedding|url-status=live}}</ref>