Afdhere Jama (Afdheere Jaamac)

Who is he?

Afdhere Jama is an American writer and filmmaker of Somali origin (Wikipedia, Afdhere Jama). He was born and raised in Somalia and moved to the United States as a teenager (same source). He describes himself as queer and Muslim (same source). See Somalis in the United States.

Huriyah

From 2000 to 2010 he was editor in chief of Huriyah ("freedom"), an LGBT Muslim magazine based in San Francisco (Wikipedia). It first appeared in Arabic and launched in English in 2002 (same source). He carried out a major interview for each issue (same source).

Books

• At Noonday with the Gods of Somalia (2004) (Wikipedia).
• Illegal Citizens: Queer Lives in the Muslim World (2008) (same source).
• Queer Jihad: LGBT Muslims on Coming Out, Activism, and the Faith (2013) (same source).
• Being Queer and Somali: LGBT Somalis at Home and Abroad (2015) (same source).

Films

His films include Shukaansi (2007), Berlinsomnia (2008), Apart (2010), Bits (2012), Angelenos (2013) and Hearts (2015) (Wikipedia).

Views

In 2006 he said he supported a Jewish homeland in Israel, and that Muslims in the United States had to decide how they saw groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah (Wikipedia). After the Orlando shooting in June 2016, an article he wrote in 2014 about LGBT Muslims was widely shared (same source).

In short

A Somali-born American writer and filmmaker who edited the LGBT Muslim magazine Huriyah from 2000 to 2010.