A couple of through the UK have actually hitched in standard Muslim clothing in what is the UK’s very first same-sex relationship involving a Muslim individual.

Jahed Choudhury, 24, and Sean Rogan, 19, claim to be the initial pair to own a same-sex Muslim marriage. The pair got hitched in Islamic gown at a registry company in Walsall, western Midlands, on 22 June.

The couple — who have already been together since 2015 — hope additional homosexual Muslims will see their unique wedding ceremony in order to find the courage to come off to themselves. They would like to reveal society it’s possible to end up being homosexual and Muslim.

“I just hope different dating a gay muslim see this too,” Choudhury
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. “and so they know that they have got assistance off their homosexual men and women,” Rogan added.

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the guy decided the “black sheep” of his Bangladeshi Muslim family and he’d already been continually bullied in school, prohibited from his mosque, and assaulted by different Muslims from his area.

“we endured away like a tender thumb – we never ever enjoyed soccer, I recommended seeing style programs on TV. I remember experiencing stuck,” mentioned Choudhury. “It went all-over college, men and women would spit on me, empty the waste containers on me personally, call me pig therefore the Muslim individuals would shout ‘haram’ — that is a very nasty insult during my language.”

“this really is about showing people Really don’t care and attention, my family doesn’t want in the future on the day, they just should not see it, its also humiliating for them,” claims Choudhury. “i wish to say to everyone going through the same task that’s it’s fine – we are going to show the whole world as you are able to be gay and Muslim.”

Same-sex marriages have-been taking place in britain since March 2014 after laws ended up being passed away by parliament in 2013.

Congrats toward pleased pair!