I spent years struggling with my identity as a Queer Palestinian

I had openly been out since thirteen, and was the first in my grade to do so (Picture: Nisreen Fox)

‘Yeah you’re a lesbian, but you’re not Muslim as well are you?’, a Christian boy barked at me in my school’s library.

‘No’, I responded adamantly, ‘of course not’.

‘Okay good’, he said.

Later that day, I felt so guilty for lying about my faith, that I asked Allah for forgiveness.

I had openly been out since thirteen, and was the first in my grade to do so. What I didn’t expect was the years of confusion, interest, e...