Faisal Alam

Faisal Alam is a gay Pakistani American who began the "Al-Fatiha Foundation", a group that is committed to helping further the cause of gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims.
Alam came to the United States from Pakistan in 1987, when he was ten, and lived in Ellington, Connecticut. In 1997, after a marriage engagement to a Muslim girl did not work out, he began a Yahoo! group for LGBT Muslims which became popular fast. He started Al-Fatiha in 1998 and was the group's president until he stepped down in 2004.
Alam is also a member of the National Religious Leadership Roundtable and the LGBT Programme of Human Rights Watch.