Queer Sikhs are challenging bigotry by mixing their identities, faith, & cultural traditions

Queer Sikhs are challenging bigotry by mixing their identities, faith, & cultural traditions

Followers of the Sikh religion believe in a genderless, eternal, omnipresent God who views all humans as equal; the religion also emphasizes the importance of helping vulnerable people in need, and its central holy religious text, the Guru Granth Sahib, contains no anti-LGBTQ+ scriptures. However, the religion also originates from India — a country with few LGBTQ+ legal protections where 59% of people consider homosexuality “morally unacceptable…