Muslim and LGBTQ Campus Groups: An Uncanny Alliance

Before I pick at the uncloseted romance I observed between Muslim and LGBTQ student groups at my recent alma mater UCLA, I should introduce a fundamental concept to this conversation: the idea of intersectionality.

For those still unfamiliar with social-justice campus terminology, intersectionality is the idea that many different campus groups with completely different missions can interconnect and create an alliance simply because they all represent “victims.”