Zahra, not her real name as she wished to remain anonymous, said she "felt depressed, anxious, and secretly wondered why Allah couldn't have just made me straight".

She told BuzzFeed News of the tension that exists for queer Muslims: Islamophobia deems Muslims as too "evil, old-fashioned, [and] backwards" to accept homosexuality, and many in the British Muslim communities do view homosexuality as a sin.

"Overall, both communities essentially deny that queer Muslims exist," Zahra said. "Being a queer Muslim is exhausting and since this tragedy it will be even more so."

As well as not being openly queer, Zahra said that she is not visibly Muslim either, since she doesn't wear the hijab.

She also worries that many Muslim communities will "continue to pretend that [there] isn't a problem" with homophobia and simply "avoid the issue".

"Most Muslim scholars who apparently spoke out against the Orlando tragedy refused to mention the queerness of the victims, which in my opinion is also homophobic," she said. "And, at the same time, we fear for our lives and wellbeing as Muslims."

Zahra said that there aren't enough safe spaces for queer Muslims in the UK, and the ones that are available are not well funded.

"LGBT Muslims need a platform where we can feel safe and not necessarily have to be out in the open about our identity if we don't feel safe enough [or] protected," she said. "We need the tools to be able to be critical of the fiqh [religious theory] from traditional Islamic scholars... We have been following the same fiqh for centuries."