Can you be Muslim and gay? A bereaved fiancé goes on a deeply personal journey to try and prevent a future tragedy. Directed by Matt Mahmood-Ogston. Produced by Meera Mistry.
Philis
This documentary is dedicated to the memory of our friend Philis King
ITV News – Homophobia Within Religious and Cultural Communities
In this episode of ITV’s From The North, myself, the incredible Lucky Roy Singh and presenter Sarah Rogers discuss the challenges of homophobia faced by many LGBT+ individuals from South…
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…
Proud Muslim Father Accepts his Gay Son
Sameer came out to his Muslim family four years ago. They fully accept him and the fact that he is gay. They understand and accept that he was born that…
BBC World News: Naz Remembered 5 Years On
On 30th July 2019, five years since Naz passed away, BBC World Service broadcast globally a short film about our journey and how religious homophobia played a part in losing…
LGBT+ People are ‘being made homeless due to religion’
New 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
ITV’s Balvinder Sidhu interviews Matt about what tragically happened to Naz five years ago. And now, years later, the same homophobic attitudes that Naz experienced have spilled out on to…
Coming out for Pride [video]
We interviewed Majid during Croydon Pride 2018 about the importance of LGBTQI+ Pride and why everyone should come out to fight for the freedoms of others. Pride is first and…
Khakan Qureshi – Gay Muslim Activist [video]
Khakan Qureshi is Founder of Finding A Voice (a social group for LGBTQI+ South Asians), a public speaker and LGBTQI+ Conference Organiser. We caught up with Khakan and spoke to…
To Chechnya, With Love – London’s protest against the LGBT purge in Chechnya
On Sunday 27th January 2019, a large group of protesters gathered in the pouring rain outside the Russian Embassy in London. They stood in solidarity with the LGBT+ community in…
Matt interviewed for Karma Nirvana
As 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
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…
Foundation’s response: Banning ‘gay cure’ therapies under the ‘LGBT action plan’
Naz 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’).
Matt and Bhavna Limbachia on BBC Breakfast talking Corrie and religious homophobia
Coronation Street’s Bhavna Limbachia and Matt were invited in to talk about the hard-hitting Rana + Kate storyline currently in the soap, and its connection to the work being done…
Muslim Pride
Muslim PRIDE details the struggles faced every day by LGBTQI+ Muslims who are often at times unable to come out to their own parents and communities.
‘Marriages of Convenience’ in the LGBTQI Community – BBC Look North
Why do some individuals who identify as LGBTQI feel like they have no choice but to hide their sexuality and get married to ‘please’ their family? BBC Look North investigates ‘marriages…
‘Be The Man’, the love story of Naz and Matt [official video]
Be the Man was shortlisted for the “Best Original Track of 2017” at the BBC Folk Awards. The the album it the song is featured on, “Strangers”, won Best Folk…
Matt meets folk group The Young’uns, who wrote song about Naz and Matt [video]
In August 2017, Teesside folk group The Young’uns embarked on a journey to meet the people who inspired the songs on their forthcoming album, Strangers. “In the first video in…
‘Pray the Gay Away’ [video]
Earlier this year we backed a campaign to petition the government to criminalise ‘Gay Cure Therapy’. However before it reached its target of 100,000 signatures to trigger a parliamentary debate,…
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…
BBC Asian Network shadows Foundation’s religious homophobia talk at Bradford secondary school
As part of our Foundation’s tour of schools in Bradford, Matt was shadowed by BBC Asian Network’s Shabnam Mahmood as he talked to a packed room of students at a…
Fasting, Ramadan and Gay Pride – Marching to end religious homophobia [video]
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 fasting. Marching with Naz & Matt…
Homosexuality, Religion & Coming Out [video]
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 year relationship. Sadly in 2014 Naz…
Homosexuality – An Islamic Perspective with Dr. Shabir Ally [video]
Can you be gay and Muslim? ‘Quran Speaks’ interviewed Dr. Shabir Ally, President of the Islamic Information Centre, about how homosexuality is actually discussed in the Quran. The aim of…
Matt accepts Attitude Pride Award on behalf of Naz and our Foundation
Back in May 2015 I was contacted by the UK’s leading publication for the gay community – Attitude Magazine – about their inaugural Attitude Pride Awards launching for the first…
The Journey To Find Acceptance – ITV News Interview [video]
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 to meet with presenter Bob Warman, who…
Can you be gay and Muslim? Live TV debate [video]
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 their humanity, their dignity and personhood….
A journey to become a Muslim drag queen [video]
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 gay, but now faces abuse from…
BBC Interview: Naz’s Legacy – New Foundation Launches
The BBC contacted me (Matt) and asked me to talk to them about my beautiful Naz, and some of the emotional challenges that he faced with his family when they…