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Gay Muslim influencer Ali Darwich and his inclusive Ramadan meal | PRIDE Daily’s Queer Cheer · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 5: this week to celebrate our third birthday. We're all about
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  Speaker 5: the more upbeat side of LGBTQ plus life from the
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  Speaker 5: year so far with some bonus queer cheer. Coming up,
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  Speaker 5: some scary pride flags. First, though, a gay Muslim influencer
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  Speaker 5: in Berlin and his inclusive Ramadan meal. Ali Darwish is
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  Speaker 5: known for his videos highlighting the struggles of being queer
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  Speaker 5: and following Islam, such as having no one to break
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  Speaker 5: your fast with because family has disowned you. What saves
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  Speaker 5: the 33-year-old from eating alone is when friends step up.
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  Speaker 5: He explains to 15 pals sharing a meal with him,
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  Speaker 5: who are a mix of Muslim, Christian, queer and straight,
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  Speaker 5: the importance of acceptance.
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  Speaker 4: No matter where a person comes from, no matter who
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  Speaker 4: that person loves, no matter how queer that person is,
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  Speaker 4: they cannot be too queer and they cannot be right
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  Speaker 4: or wrong because they are exactly as they should be.
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  Speaker 4: And that is why I am delighted that we are
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  Speaker 4: able to be here today. And we say bismillah and
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  Speaker 4: bon appetit.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks to AP. Ali's German with Palestinian and Lebanese heritage.
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  Speaker 5: He's got nearly 140,000 followers on TikTok and Instagram. Pride Daily. Next,
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  Speaker 5: the 81-year-old nun who's helping Catholic parents in America to
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  Speaker 5: support their transgender children. Sister Nancy Corcoran from the Sisters
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  Speaker 5: of St. Joseph of Carondola in Missouri has weekly dinners
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  Speaker 5: where mums and dads get together. It's all about how
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  Speaker 5: to affirm their kids so they can live their best lives.
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  Speaker 3: They come for supper at the mother house and they
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  Speaker 3: sit around and they help one another. They share their story.
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  Speaker 5: Sister Nancy was clueless about all things transgender until she
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  Speaker 5: decided to educate herself a decade ago, spent two years
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  Speaker 5: traveling the U.S., going to trans conferences. Now she speaks
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  Speaker 5: up on the failure of the Catholic Church to recognize
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  Speaker 5: gender transition.
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  Speaker 3: I tell the parents, you know, as a Roman Catholic nun,
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  Speaker 3: I say the church is wrong. And I also let
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  Speaker 3: my bishop know everything I'm doing.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks to the Kelly Kitley podcast. Sister Nancy's archdiocese doesn't
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  Speaker 5: officially endorse what she's doing, but it doesn't stand in
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  Speaker 5: the way either. Pride Daily. Italy's first LGBTQ plus nightclub
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  Speaker 5: is the focus of a new documentary. Kinky, with an
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  Speaker 5: I at the end, was born in 1975 and initially
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  Speaker 5: had a men-only policy. Same as me, but I've maintained mine.
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  Speaker 5: It was described as a theatre of experimentation and transgression.
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  Speaker 5: Even back then it had three bathrooms for men, women
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