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…
Our mission is to never let religion, any religion, come in the way of the unconditional love between parents and their children
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…
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…
Foundation delivers workshops for FFLAG’s 25 Year Anniversary
byAs part of FFLAG’s 25 year anniversary celebrations we were invited to be part of a day long event in Manchester organised by the…
Foundation delivers ‘Religious Homophobia’ lecture at Oxford University
byOn a dark October evening, Naz and Matt Foundation delivered a powerful lecture at Oxford University, Lady Margaret Hall, to a full room of…
Foundation delivers training workshop to LGBTQI helpline
bySwitchboard, one of the most widely known LGBT+ helplines recently approached Naz and Matt Foundation to provide a custom training workshop for their helpline…
World Suicide Prevention Day
byToday is World Suicide Prevention Day. Is today the day you reach out and ask for help? Is today the day you send that…
Foundation joins Coronation Street for Manchester Pride
byCoronation Street made headlines throughout this year for its groundbreaking lesbian Muslim storyline, inspired in part by our very own Naz and the experiences…
Matt interviewed for Karma Nirvana
byAs a Survivor Ambassador for Karma Nirvana, Matt was interviewed about Naz, honour abuse and shame.
Pride In London: 48 Volunteers march with Naz and Matt Foundation
byNaz and Matt Foundation and 48 fabulous volunteers marched through the streets of the UK capital for London Pride on Saturday the 7th of…
HARM – Honour Abuse Research Matrix Network Launches
byThursday 5th July saw the launch of the much needed HARM – The Honour Abuse Research Matrix Network at the University of Central Lancashire….
Foundation’s response: Banning ‘gay cure’ therapies under the ‘LGBT action plan’
byNaz and Matt Foundation was interviewed by BBC News 24 about the UK Government’s announcement to ban so called ‘gay cure therapy’ (also called ‘conversion therapy’).
Will a UK ban on gay conversion therapy work?
byWriting for NewStatesmen, Precious Adesina interviews Matt about ‘gay cure therapy’ and the need to criminalise it. ‘Late in 2017, an assistant pastor in…