Overview

Awarded the Cosmopolitan India Blogger Award for 'LGBTQIA+ Voice of the Year 2022', The Queer Muslim Project is Asia's leading digital and cultural platform for queer, Muslim and allied voices, with a growing global community of over 40,000 people. We use art, culture, media, and storytelling to challenge harmful stereotypes and norms, build power and visibility of underserved LGBTQIA+ artists, storytellers, and communities, and enable them to shape their own narratives. Our work re-narrates public conceptions of queerness in a way that makes visible the diversity of queer lived experiences in the region and transcends intentional misrepresentation and socially-reinforced stereotypes. We are currently building a pipeline of underrepresented queer talent from South Asia through artist development programs, content creation, campaigns, research, and showcasing opportunities. Founded in 2017 in response to the lack of accessible, safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ Muslims to come together and tell their stories, The Queer Muslim Project has today grown to be one of the largest global online networks of LGBTQIA+ Muslims. Our partners include leading corporate organisations and arts institutions such as Meta, Google, MUBI, British Council, BBC, Goethe-Institut, among others.