San Junipero: Queer Heaven on Earth
Battles will come and go and queer people do die for their identity and fights for rights, but that doesn’t mean the gays don’t deserve their happy endings in stories.
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Shebby loves nothing more than jamming out with his band, Jopana. He usually skips religious classes and sometimes even prayers for these practice sessions, to his parents` great annoyance. One day, Shebby is praying inside the mosque when his shoes are stolen by a prankster. He runs outside to give chase but loses the boy in a housing area. As he searches for him, he runs into a girl named Fatimah. It`s love at first sight, and they soon strike up a friendship. After learning that her father is an imam, Shebby vows to dedicate himself to his religion and change his ways. With an arranged marriage to his father`s friend`s daughter weighing on him, he fights to gain Fatimah and her father`s approval as soon as he can to marry the woman he loves.
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Shebby loves nothing more than jamming out with his band, Jopana. He usually skips religious classes and sometimes even prayers for these practice sessions, to his parents` great annoyance. One day, Shebby is praying inside the mosque when his shoes are stolen by a prankster. He runs outside to give chase but loses the boy in a housing area. As he searches for him, he runs into a girl named Fatimah. It`s love at first sight, and they soon strike up a friendship. After learning that her father is an imam, Shebby vows to dedicate himself to his religion and change his ways. With an arranged marriage to his father`s friend`s daughter weighing on him, he fights to gain Fatimah and her father`s approval as soon as he can to marry the woman he loves.
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