Our Mission

Queer Crescent imagines futures where LGBTQIA+ Muslims are building possibilities towards collective liberation. ​Our work is shaped by resisting gendered violence through cultural organizing, base-building, and defining Muslimness as an expansive and racialized identity.

Our Story

Muslims are one of the fastest growing immigrant populations in the United States. As the tides of religious fundamentalism rise, with authoritarianism powers expanding in the diaspora, queer Muslims are looking for a national healing centered political organization that builds power through a visionary framework grounded in the radical possibilities of our community. In response to Trump’s 2017 Muslim and African Ban, Queer Crescent launched with a peer-led support group for LGBTQI+ Muslims in Oakland, CA. Through this bi-weekly safer space gathering, emerging needs of the community were raised to be collectively held, and QC began to organize in response to these needs. 

In March of 2020, a global pandemic hit. Queer Crescent joined forces with Masjid Al-Rabia to raise over $65,000 to create the Radical Muslim Mutual Aid Fund, meeting the myriad needs of our diverse Muslim communities in response to COVID19. We dispersed these funds to over 350 individuals, many of whom are incarcerated.

We continue to serve our community with our unique support groups tailored towards LGBTQI+ Muslims and their families, offer workshop series like Transformative Justice and Islam, and shape cultural and policy discourse through co-leading the Partnership to End Gendered Islamophobia and the forthcoming Presencing Ourselves: LGBTQI+ Muslim Survey.