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After receiving positive and encouraging feedback from schools in Oldham and London where we successfully delivered talks to their students, our Foundation is now rolling…
Gaydio’s Emma (and Chris) met with Matthew Mahmood-Ogston (Naz & Matt Foundation), Khakan Qureshi (Finding a Voice) for the start of Birmingham’s 2016 Gay…
ZoomIn.tv’s film crew followed Ahmer, a practicing gay Muslim as he experienced his first ever gay pride – during Ramadan, and as he was…
Filmed during Matt’s LGBT History Month Talk in February 2016, this short film documents Matt’s two-hour dedication to his undying love for Naz, and their thirteen…
March with us in this year’s London Pride and help us put an end to religious and cultural homophobia, and discrimination against LGBTQI people within…
March with us in this year’s Birmingham Pride and help us put an end to religious homophobia. Help us raise visibility through the streets of…
Join myself (Matt), Peter Tatchell, Asifa Lahore, Khakan Qureshi, Sohail Ahmed and Aria Alagha for a panel discussion about creative activism against the prejudice…
Asad Dhunna writes for The Independent about Channel 4’s recent survey into British Muslims’ attitudes to living in Britain. In the survey an overwhelming 86 per…
We recently collaborated with talented photojournalist Lisa Bretherick to help her produce a new photo essay for Unbreakable Rope – an exhibition being launched in…
In conjunction with the StandUp Foundation, Quilliam Foundation organised a day long Interfaith Conference to bring together individuals from different parts of the LGBT+ and faith…
Oxford University Students Union’s “Mind Your Head” campaign organised a panel event to talk about issues and stigma around mental health issues within the…
Chris Holliday from Gaydio (the UK’s largest LGBT radio station) caught up with Matt, from Naz and Matt Foundation, about some of the recent…
Please join me Monday 15th February evening for my talk for LGBT History Month (which runs throughout February). The event has been organised by our…
As part of Naz and Matt Foundation’s strategy of tackling religious homophobia, I was invited by a lovely teacher at Hathershaw College to come to…
Naz and Matt Foundation are pleased to introduce Ashton Ross Law – a law firm we are currently working in association with. Ashton Ross…
It is with great honour that I have been voted the 6th most influential person on this year’s Independent on Sunday Rainbow List – an annual list…
The partner of a doctor who killed himself after being told to seek treatment for his homosexuality has welcomed a Parliamentary debate to ban…
Today is our anniversary. 14 years ago today, I met the man of my dreams. I met the man I would fall in love with. I…
For most people finding the love of your life is something to be shared and celebrated with family and friends. But for some, the…
High profile, celebrity street artist Pegasus met Naz a few years ago when he asked permission for Naz’s clinic’s (Face Clinic London / Soho…
Quran Speaks interviewed Dr. Shabir Ally, President of the Islamic Information Centre, about how homosexuality is actually discussed in the Quran. THe aim of…
On Monday 24th August 2015, Channel 4 broadcast a groundbreaking documentary that explored the lives of three Muslim drag queens in the UK. Naz…
Approaching the first anniversary of Nazim’s death, Gareth Johnson from the Gay Star News met Matthew in the Soho neighborhood of London – outside…
30th July 2015 marked the anniversary of Naz joining the angels, the day that Naz sadly passed away. The day is going to be…
Back in May 2015 I was contacted by the UK’s leading publication for the gay community – Attitude Magazine – about their inaugural Attitude…
During the weekend of Portsmouth Pride, 20-21st June 2015, That’s Solent TV (the local TV station for Portsmouth), invited me in to their studio…
Vanessa from London Live interviewed Matt at the start of the Journey To Find Acceptance in Hampstead Cemetery. http://www.londonlive.co.uk/embed/news/2015-05-25/journey-to-find-acceptance-sponsored-walk
Thank you so, so much to everyone who supported and participated in what was an incredible 150 miles walked from London to Birmingham. I was…
Matt was interviewed by BBC’s Radio WM (West Midlands) several times over the course of the Journey To Find Acceptance. This was longest of…
Shortly after the start of our ‘Journey to Find Acceptance‘ on 17th April 2015, The Association of British Muslims published an official statement announcing their support…
After the Northern Ireland Health Minister Jim Wells resigned, following a canvassing incident in Rathfriland where he told a lesbian couple he believed their…
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ITV News have been incredibly supportive and covered our 150 mile journey from London to Birmingham. The ITV team invited me in to their studio…
“The fiancé of Harley Street doctor Nazim Mahmood from Birmingham – who killed himself after his mother told him to find a ‘cure’ for…
8 days, 130 miles to find acceptance in our communities On 30th July, 2014, my fiancé and eternal soulmate Naz (Dr Nazim Mahmood) sadly…
Matt is interviewed by Gaydio’s Emma and Chris on Wednesday 15th April 2015 about his fiancé Naz, and the charity (Naz and Matt Foundation)…
London Evening Standard’s Rachel Blundy reports “The fiancé of a troubled Muslim doctor who killed himself after his mother asked him to “cure” his…
Breakfast Television in Edmonton, Canada, host a video segment called DiverseCity during their morning show, which explores the lives and challenges of real people…
On Tuesday evening I attended the election hustings at St James’ Church, organised by West Hampstead Life. With the help of Louise, a close…
Our friend Vanessa-Jane Chapman writes about losing her friend Naz, and supporting our Foundation. “On 30 July 2014, my (real life) friend Matt lost his partner…
Sarfraz Manzoor, a writer for the Guardian contacted Matt to see if he would be willing to be interviewed in-depth about what happened to…
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny…
Meet Ali, a gay Pakistani asylum-seeker preparing for his first performance as a drag queen. Ali fled Pakistan, where he was persecuted for being…
The BBC contacted me (Matt) and asked me to talk to them about my beautiful Naz, and some of the emotional challenges that he…
An Asian doctor took his own life days after telling his family he was gay. His partner Matt Ogston has started the Naz And…
The partner of a man who took his own life this year after coming out to his mother has set up a foundation in his…
At the inquest into the death of Dr Nazim Mahmood (Naz) who died in July, the coroner said: “It seems desperately sad that in…
Immediately following the public inquest about what happened to Naz, Sky News went live with a day long news feature that investigated the the…