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Studies on homosexuality in cultural minorities are rare. The scientific literature highlights the risks associated with coming out, the rejection of reductive sexual identities, and fragile mental health. This study explores the arrangements around religion and homosexuality within family dynamics. It is a qualitative study based on nine interviews with homosexual Muslim women. Data analysis was done according to interpretative phenomenological analysis. Acceptance of their homosexuality is related to the acceptance of their families. The emergence of homosexuality triggers individuation and leads them to reappropriate the religion that is at the center of family communications. Homosexuality may be an obstacle to family communication, a means of emancipation from or negotiation of religion, or may provoke a return to religion. The main limitation is the selection bias inherent in studies on homosexuality.