I have a lesbian friend who wears a hijab and whenever she goes to LGBT spaces wearing it, she gets comments about why she’s there because it’s just assumed she’s heterosexual.’ I ended up getting engaged to my cousin in Pakistan to get them off my back.’ĭo you worry about Islamophobia, especially after Orlando? ‘It’s scary and there is Islamophobia within the LGBT community. The options I was given were be celibate or marry a woman. ![]() ![]() My parents took me to the GP at first, who told them it was something they had to accept. Was it difficult to come out? ‘I waited until I was 23. You grew up in a conservative Muslim family. When I first went on stage in a burkha and did a parody song, half the audience were laughing at the jokes and the other half were like: Should we be laughing at this?’ She pokes fun at being LGBT, she pokes fun at being Muslim. ‘She’s a bombshell and mixes her Muslim culture with her British upbringing. ![]() Tell me about your drag persona, Asifa Lahore. Asif Quraishi, Britain’s first Muslim drag queen
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