Being Gay and Muslim After Orlando

On the Media | Jun 17, 2016

One of the questions driving media coverage after the Orlando shootings has been: how is this massacre to be viewed? As an attack on LGBT people; the latest in a long history of violence; or part of a continuum of terrorism that includes the attacks in Brussels, Paris, and San Bernardino? And do we have to choose? Raillan Brooks, who is gay and Muslim, wrote in the Village Voice that after the shootings, the "the narrative couldn't find room for me." He talks with Brooke about his response to Orlando as someone in a position of "double jeopardy."

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