Faisal Alam is a gay Pakistani American who began the Al-Fatiha Foundation, a group that is committed to helping further the cause of gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims.[1]
Alam came to the United States from Pakistan in 1987, when he was ten, and lived in Ellington, Connecticut. In 1997, after a marriage engagement to a Muslim girl[2] did not work out, he began a Yahoo! group for LGBT Muslims which became popular fast.[3] He started Al-Fatiha in 1998 and was the group's president until he stepped down in 2004.[4]
Alam is also a member of the National Religious Leadership Roundtable and the LGBT Programme of Human Rights Watch.[3]
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