Yesterday we attended an event at the Houses of Parliament to support all of the incredible individuals who helped bring in yesterday’s change in law. As of 27th February 2023,…
Foundation Supports New Play: The Witness – Being Expelled as a Gay Jehovah’s Witness
We’re happy to be supporting The Witness, a new play written by Robert P Bruce to be performed in Swansea. The story is based on the true life experience of…
The Sacred Space of Sexuality & Spirituality – SOLD OUT
New event – we are proud to bring you a conversational + therapeutic writing space for queer, trans, black indigenous people of colour with a spiritual/religious practice. About this event…
Welcome to Out And Proud Parents Day 2021
Welcome to Out And Proud Parents Day 2021, a very special annual day in the calendar where we celebrate proud accepting parents of their LGBTQI+ children. July 30th is “Out…
Thank You – #OutAndProudParentsDay 2020 Was HUGE
We are absolutely delighted and over the moon with how many proud, accepting parents took part in #OutAndProudParentsDay 2020. We would love to say a HUGE FABULOUS THANK YOU to…
Out And Proud Parents Day 2020 Launches
Every year on the 30th July we celebrate out and proud parents of LGBTQI+ individuals. It’s a day when we encourage proud parents to ‘come out’, on social media, to…
Foundation Takes Part in LGBT+ Drop In
We were delighted to be invited to take part in a monthly LGBT+ drop by our friends at Forum+. The drop ins are a great opportunity for local groups, organisations…
Imaan Announces Muslim Pride Festival – Sunday Morning Live
Asifa Lahore, Britain’s first out Muslim Drag Queen, and myself Matt, appear on Sunday Morning Live to talk about the importance of queer Muslim visibility and the fabulous new announcement…
Birmingham Pride March 2019 – Education, Education, Education
The 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 by the escalating homophobic protests outside…
Welsh LGBT+ Choirs Support Foundation at Cardiff Concert
The South Wales Gay Men’s Chorus (SWGMC) led a family of three LGBT+ choirs to a packed audience at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama on Saturday 6th…
Can you be Queer and have Faith?
Navigating faith and queer identity can be tough, and often it can seem impossible to reconcile the two. On Tuesday Feb 26th, Naz and Matt Foundation teamed up with the…
Foundation delivers workshops at NASUWT Teachers’ Conference
We are proud to have spoken at the NASUWT Teachers’ Union Conference in Birmingham about our work tackling religious and cultural homophobia in schools. On Saturday 23rd February the NASUWT…
Foundation delivers talk for Police Scotland and Women’s Aid Charity
On a cold foggy morning, Naz and Matt Foundation delivered their first talk in Scotland to a packed auditorium at headquarters of Police Scotland. We were invited by our friends…
Foundation delivers moving monologue at Home Office conference
Our friends at Karma Nirvana invited Matt to speak alongside the legendary Jasvinder Sanghera CBE, founder of the charity and Britain’s most prominent campaigner tackling forced marriage and “honour based…
Foundation delivers workshops for FFLAG’s 25 Year Anniversary
As part of FFLAG’s 25 year anniversary celebrations we were invited to be part of a day long event in Manchester organised by the much loved charity. Our Foundation facilitated…
Foundation delivers ‘Religious Homophobia’ lecture at Oxford University
On a dark October evening, Naz and Matt Foundation delivered a powerful lecture at Oxford University, Lady Margaret Hall, to a full room of students and senior members of staff…
Foundation joins Coronation Street for Manchester Pride
Coronation Street made headlines throughout this year for its groundbreaking lesbian Muslim storyline, inspired in part by our very own Naz and the experiences he sadly faced from his own…
Pride In London: 48 Volunteers march with Naz and Matt Foundation
Naz and Matt Foundation and 48 fabulous volunteers marched through the streets of the UK capital for London Pride on Saturday the 7th of July 2018. We marched to raise…
HARM – Honour Abuse Research Matrix Network Launches
Thursday 5th July 2018 saw the launch of the much needed HARM – The Honour Abuse Research Matrix Network at the University of Central Lancashire. Headed by Dr. Roxanne Khan…
July Support Meetup for Religious Parents & LGBTQI+ Individuals
This session will be a very important date as it will mark exactly 4 years to the day that my darling Naz sadly passed away on July 30th 2014. We…
Foundation delivers moving speech at Birmingham Gay Symphony Orchestra anniversary concert
Birmingham Gay Symphony Orchestra is one of only three LGBTQ+ orchestras in the UK and is made up of musicians who identify as LGBTQ+ and heterosexual/straight allies. The orchestra provides…
Matt delivers keynote talk at University of Birmingham Medical School event
As part of LGBTHistoryMonth 2018 I am proud, and incredibly humbled to be invited by the University of Birmingham Medical School (where my darling Naz trained to be a doctor) to deliver…
Naz remembered: 3 Years in darkness
My darling Naz was remembered on 30th July 2017, 5:23pm, three years to the day that Naz joined the angels, with a peaceful sunflower ceremony in which we decorated his…
Matt recites Honourlogue of Naz and Matt at National Day of Memory in Leeds
In a packed hall in the middle of Leeds the silence was deafening. The ‘Day of Memory’ had arrived and its importance was being felt by the attendees in the…
Foundation delivers keynote IDAHOT speech at event for global consultancy
Matt was invited to the deliver the opening keynote speech at Capgemini’s 2017 International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) conference in Telford, UK. Jointly hosted by the HMRC, the…
Pride in London 2017: March with us to help stop religious and cultural homophobia
Update: We have now reached capacity for our marching group. Thank you everyone that has signed up. We will shortly be sending out an email with details for meeting. Please…
Birmingham Pride 2017: March with us & help stop religious and cultural homophobia
March with us on Saturday 27th May as we march through Birmingham to help end religious and cultural homophobia, and to support the campaign to criminalise gay cure therapy. As we…
The Fourth Choir to support Naz and Matt Foundation at their Christmas concert
[Update: Thank you so, so much to everyone that attended the Fourth Choir Christmas Concert on 10th December and donated. The event raised a huge £935.66 for Naz and Matt…
Naz & Matt Foundation to tackle Religious & Cultural Homophobia in Bradford schools
Naz & Matt Foundation are coming to Bradford! As part of our schools strategy and after months of hard work by Project Light UK and Bradford College (thank you both!),…
London Pride 2016: March with us & help stop religious & cultural homophobia
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 faith communities. Help us raise visibility through…