Faris Malik Biography
- Title:
- Manager of Muslim-oriented gay websites, "Born Eunuchs" and "Queer Jihad"
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Is Sexual Orientation Determined at Birth?"
- Reasoning:
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“The innately and exclusively homosexual men of the ancient world inhabited the category of eunuchs. What we moderns think of as a eunuch, namely a castrated man, was simply an artificially manufactured homosexual. Natural and man-made eunuchs co-existed as distinct categories for at least a thousand years, from the first-reported mass castrations about 600 BCE until 400 CE.”
“Born Eunuchs” website, Faris Malik, 1999
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Manages Muslim-oriented gay websites, “Born Eunuchs” and “Queer Jihad”
- Head of San Francisco chapter of Al-Fatiha, an organization for LGBT Muslims
- Education:
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- MA, German Literature, Princeton University, 1989
- BA, German Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1986
- Other:
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