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Across vast Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized
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Across vast Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized

  • EDNA TARIGAN, MARIAM FAM and DAVID CRARY Associated Press

Here and there, across the far-flung Muslim and Arab worlds, LGBTQ people see glimmers of progress � but those are rare exceptions. Many Muslim nations criminalize gay and lesbian sex. And LGBTQ people routinely are rejected by their families, denounced by Islamic authorities, hounded by security forces and limited to clandestine social lives.