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When Faith and Family Collide
November 11, 2004
Jaheda is challenging prejudice with honesty and courage.
Jaheda is a 28-year-old British Asian whose family came from Bangladesh. Raised in Sheffield, she lives now in Manchester and struggled for years with how to explain to her mother that she was gay."When I finally told my mum that I'm the kind of woman who didn't like men - there's no word for gay in our language - she stood up, stared at the fish-tank, put on her burqa and went out of the house for about five hours," says Jaheda.
"She's still convinced I'll burn in hell, but gradually she's coming round." Jaheda rejected her strict Muslim upbringing and ran away from home when she was 17.
[Black, Muslim and Gay - BBC - 11-11-04]
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