Diego Garcia Rodriguez

Research García Rodríguez’s doctoral research at University College London focused on gender, sexuality and religion in Indonesia, especially the everyday lives of queer Muslims and their allies. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this research examined faith and spirituality as sources of agency and explored how queer Muslims negotiated religious, gendered and sexual subjectivities in contemporary Indonesia. This work later informed his monograph Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia: Queer Muslims and Their Allies. In 2024, his research on LGBTIQ+ lives, family, and religion in Indonesia was cited by El País in a feature on queer experiences in Indonesia. In 2025, he was quoted by the Washington Blade on Japanese electoral politics and debates over LGBTIQ+ rights. He has also contributed writing to outlets including ABC Religion & Ethics and has had commentary syndicated in news aggregators.

Queer(y)ing Asylum Podcast García Rodríguez hosts Queer(y)ing Asylum, a podcast on LGBTIQ+ asylum and forced migration featuring conversations with scholars, practitioners, artists, and people with lived experience.

Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium García Rodríguez founded the Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium at the University of Nottingham on 8 November 2023, which the university described as a ground-breaking event bringing together national and international participants. The symposium continued as a conference series, with a 2024 edition hosted by the University of East London in London (9 November 2024) and a third edition hosted by Lund University (30–31 October 2025), which Lund University described as a leading global conference on queer asylum.

Selected works García Rodríguez, D. (2023). Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia: Queer Muslims and Their Allies. Routledge. Garcia Rodriguez, D. (2025). “You are a gay man, and you’re also Christian – how is this possible? Homosecularism, religion and LGBTIQ+ asylum in the UK”. Ethnic and Racial Studies.