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South African gay imam

Imam Muhsin Hendricks
Born	Muhsin Hendricks June 1967 (age 57) Cape Town, South Africa
Occupation	Imam
Religion	Islam

Muhsin Hendricks (born June 1967)^[1] is a South African imam and Islamic scholar.

Imam Muhsin Hendricks is one of the world's first openly queer Muslim prayer leaders.

Imam Muhsin Hendricks is one of the world's first openly queer Muslim prayer leaders.

🇿🇦 Born in Cape Town, South Africa, he is credited with starting the country's first LGBTQ+ friendly mosque and over two decades of activism.

I am imam Muhsin Hendricks.

The mosque was founded by Muhsin Hendricks, an imam who has devoted his life to giving LGBT Muslims a safe space in which to worship.

A documentary feature film about Muhsin Hendricks, a Capetonian ex-dress designer who became the world's first openly gay imam, is premiering.

He has been involved in various LGBT Muslim advocacy groups and has been an advocate for greater acceptance of LGBT people within Islam. He has been described as the world's first openly gay imam, having come out in 1996.^[2]

Early and personal life

Hendricks was brought up in a traditional Muslim home,^[3] and his grandfather was an Islamic cleric.^[1] He studied at the University of Islamic Studies in Pakistan.^[4] He has stated that his "forefathers are a mixture of Indonesian and Indian background.

They were brought to Cape Town as political prisoners and slaves by the Dutch colonialists".^[5]

He married a woman in 1991, and had childr