First gay marriage between Muslims is celebrated in the UK

Jahed Choudhury, 24, and Sean Rogan, 19, have just married legally in a ceremony full of emotion and love. Muslims, they wore traditional clothes of their culture and thrilled people around the world.

The couple has been together for two years and met at a delicate moment in Choudhury's life, the day he cried on a bench, alone. Concerned, Rogan approached and asked if all was well. That kind gesture was what Choudhury needed most at the moment, and the hope he felt was what gave him strength to overcome the difficulties.

For him, being gay and Muslim is something that makes him feel like the “black sheep” since, for religious reasons, he had a hard time accepting his own homosexuality. Choudhury spent a lot of time trying to deny his sexual orientation and even tried to find ways to "cure" homosexuality with medicine and religious pilgrimages.

Paradigm change

His family did not attend the wedding ceremony, but he still believes that publicizing this union is important to other LGBT Muslims: “My family didn't want to come on the day, they just didn't want to see it, it's too embarrassing for them, ” he said. Choudhury, in a statement published in Metro.

He also revealed that for many of his family, the relationship he has built with now husband Rogan is just a disease or just a phase of his life. "I want to tell all the people who go through the same thing that it's fine - we'll show the whole world that you can be gay and Muslim, " he said.