[1] Alam arrived in the United States from Pakistan in 1987, at the age of ten, and resided in the rural middle-class town of Ellington, Connecticut.
In 1997, he started an email listserv for LGBT Muslims that led to the founding of Al-Fatiha in 1998.
Alam was instrumental in bringing together a diverse group of seasoned leaders to undertake this project.
[4] He is a former member of the Advisory Committee of the LGBT Program at Human Rights Watch.
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