“It was the mainstream Muslim community’s projections upon me that sparked that anxiety and panic. “I didn’t think that God didn’t love me,” she explained.
“I just kept getting drawn to being around them and being close to anything that resembled Islam,” she said.Īs a black, queer Muslim, Little said she initially felt that her queerness could disqualify her from practicing Islam. Taylor Amari Little, now 20, said she had just started high school when she began to learn more about the Muslim community in the Detroit area. NBC OUT Stoning gays? Amputating thieves? Brunei slammed for 'vicious' new laws