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The last man standing on an island At 21, Miriam and her then partner got engaged.
She knew she wanted to tell her mum about this "massive thing" but knew it would cause pain.
And since then it's very much been about religion. She'd reply, 'God made man and woman - if you look at any verse in the Koran it's never husband and husband or wife and wife'. But her overarching love for her daughter fights with her culture.
She worries about me because she believes the life I'm living is a sin. I can tell when I look at her face that she's hurting.
She stopped going home as much and feels like their relationship has never recovered, but her mum agreed to keep it a secret. It was more than a decade before Miriam told her father.
She and her current partner had recently got engaged and she decided the time was right to tell him. As far as I'm concerned, I'm right, you're wrong. What you're doing is against Islam'.
They have managed to see each other occasionally at her sister's house, but Miriam admits she has given up wanting to change how her mum feels. When I was younger, it was 'I'm right, she's wrong'.
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It was black and white, but now it's grey. She's right in how she feels, and I'm right in how I feel. When he was about to leave for work I went up to him and gave him a big hug.
He was rigid, but I stayed there for an extra 10 seconds to have that extra contact because I bloody miss him. While there have been moves towards acceptance of homosexuality in some religions, Islam in the West has tended to stay with the Orthodox view.
Miriam and her partner, who is white British, hope to marry in She plans to wear traditional dress for part of it and there "may be a few Asian Mature escorts chattanooga.
But the rest will be "as gay as gay can be" - with a drag act as compere and DJ. If you look at some older members of the community, they are living in the 8th Century, not the 21st. But it is possible to be Muslim and gay.
I genuinely believe that although I had a girlfriend earlier in life, I wasn't out to myself.
I feel not just stronger now after having those experiences, but more accepting of myself.