Foundation Proudly Sponsors Nazir Afzal Essay Competition 2020
byCalling individuals who have a passion for writing and a story to share! £500 prize available. Are you an activist, survivor, student, academic, health…
Our mission is to never let religion, any religion, come in the way of the unconditional love between parents and their children
ITV News – Homophobia Within Religious and Cultural Communities
byIn this episode of ITV’s From The North, myself, the incredible Lucky Roy Singh and presenter Sarah Rogers discuss the challenges of homophobia faced…
Interview: I’m Coming Out
byAt the end of 2019 I met up with Jonny from the “I’m Coming Out” podcast. He’d invited me to give an in-depth interview…
Love Is Too Beautiful To Be Hidden In The Closet
by“Growing up in Bangladesh, I was told that homosexuals would go to hell. And I believed it. I knew I was gay, but all the time I was told that it was dirty and sinful.” Nadim share’s his deeply personal journey to find acceptance, and love.
Our patron Bhavna Limbachia takes on Celebrity Catchphrase
byWhat an amazing performance! It gives us great pleasure to announce that our fabulous patron Bhavna Limbachia supported Naz and Matt Foundation on yesterday’s Celebrity…
Interview: Husbands Amir and Aamir
byThe “You Don’t Love Me Podcast” is life from the perspective of a gay South Asian couple – husband and husband team Amir and…
Foundation Takes Part in LGBT+ Drop In
byWe were delighted to be invited to take part in a monthly LGBT+ drop by our friends at Forum+. The drop ins are a…
Interview: The real cost of Homophobia
byOne calm, peaceful April afternoon in 2018, Clare Freeman from the deeply emotive F**k It Moments Podcast sat down with me and switched on…
Imaan Announces Muslim Pride Festival – Sunday Morning Live
byAsifa Lahore, Britain’s first out Muslim Drag Queen, and myself Matt, appear on Sunday Morning Live to talk about the importance of queer Muslim…
BBC Radio London: Sunny and Shay Talk Religion and LGBT Homelessness
bySunny and Shay Interviews BBC Radio London’s Sunny and Shay invited Matt, Leigh Fontaine from Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT) and Faye to talk about…
BBC World News: Naz Remembered 5 Years On
byOn 30th July 2019, five years since Naz passed away, BBC World Service broadcast globally a short film about our journey and how religious…
LGBT+ People are ‘being made homeless due to religion’
byNew research has found that nearly half of young LGBT+ people who are left homeless after coming out are from religious backgrounds.
ITV News – LGBT Schools Row – The Human Impact
byITV’s Balvinder Sidhu interviews Matt about what tragically happened to Naz five years ago. And now, years later, the same homophobic attitudes that Naz…
Foundation delivers monologue at major West Midlands Police Conference
byIn front of a crowded auditorium in Birmingham, beneath a huge 70ft photo of Naz and Matt, I walked slowly up the staircase on…
Coming out for Pride [video]
byWe interviewed Majid during Croydon Pride 2018 about the importance of LGBTQI+ Pride and why everyone should come out to fight for the freedoms of…
Khakan Qureshi – Gay Muslim Activist [video]
byKhakan Qureshi is Founder of Finding A Voice (a social group for LGBTQI+ South Asians), a public speaker and LGBTQI+ Conference Organiser. We caught…
Birmingham Pride March 2019 – Education, Education, Education
byThe official Birmingham Pride theme for 2019 is “LOVE OUT LOUD”. So this year, let’s be out, proud, and loud! If you’ve been affected…
Thank you Bhavna Limbachia
byOn behalf of Naz and Matt Foundation I’d like to say a huge, heartfelt thank you to the multi-award nominated actress Bhavna Limbachia for…
Welsh LGBT+ Choirs Support Foundation at Cardiff Concert
byThe South Wales Gay Men’s Chorus (SWGMC) led a family of three LGBT+ choirs to a packed audience at the Royal Welsh College of…
Foundation signs joint letter with Stonewall, Tell Mama, Muslim Women’s Network UK
byOn the 28th March 2019 MPs voted in favour of LGBT inclusive sex and relationship education for primary schools, the first time relationship education…
Our Response to Homophobic Protests Outside Parkfield Community School
byOur organisation, Naz and Matt Foundation, was founded because a community and a conservative religious family did not understand what it means to be…
Foundation Wins IKWRO Award For Its Work Tackling Honour Based Violence
byWe are truly honoured and thankful for Naz and Matt Foundation to have been awarded by IKWRO, the inspirational “Iranian & Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation”, an award…
Can you be Queer and have Faith?
byNavigating faith and queer identity can be tough, and often it can seem impossible to reconcile the two. On Tuesday Feb 26th, Naz and…
Foundation delivers workshops at NASUWT Teachers’ Conference
byWe are proud to have spoken at the NASUWT Teachers’ Union Conference in Birmingham about our work tackling religious and cultural homophobia in schools….
Foundation Delivers Full Day of School Talks in York
byFoundation delivers full day of ‘religion, homophobia and bullying’ school talks during LGBT History Month for Queen Ethelburga’s School in York.
To Chechnya, With Love – London’s protest against the LGBT purge in Chechnya
byOn Sunday 27th January 2019, a large group of protesters gathered in the pouring rain outside the Russian Embassy in London. They stood in…
A legal form of abuse: Conversion therapy
byWe speak to CNN about the hidden dangers of ‘conversion therapy’ and ‘gay cure therapy’ and why we must all work together to end…
Foundation delivers talk for Police Scotland and Women’s Aid Charity
byOn a cold foggy morning, Naz and Matt Foundation delivered their first talk in Scotland to a packed auditorium at headquarters of Police Scotland….
BBC Radio 5 Live Investigates: Shocking LGBT+ Domestic Abuse
byGalop, the LGBT+ anti-violence charity, recently completed a report based on the analysis of 626 domestic survivors between January 2013 and August 2017. Of…
Foundation delivers moving monologue at Home Office conference
byOur friends at Karma Nirvana invited Matt to speak alongside the legendary Jasvinder Sanghera CBE, founder of the charity and Britain’s most prominent campaigner…