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Out in the Dark is a 2012 film about the gay love story of a Palestinian Muslim and an Israeli Jew. [285] Breaking Fast is a love story between Mo, a gay Muslim doctor in Los Angeles and Kal who get to know each other over nightly iftars. [286] [287] In 2015, the documentary film A Sinner in Mecca was released. It was directed by Parvez Sharma.
On August 20, 2016, a local source in Nineveh province, Iraq, revealed that ISIL executed four men on charges of homosexuality and sodomy, including two of its own members, by throwing them off a building. [11] On December 5, 2016, ISIL threw a gay man accused of 'homosexual relations' off top of a building in Maslamah City in Aleppo, Syria. [12]
Khaled El-Rouayheb, who wrote Before Homosexuality in the Arab‐Islamic World, 1500–1800, believed that Islamic Homosexualities's depiction of same-sex behavior in the Arab and Islamic world was "homosexual" when such behavior was not homosexual, and El-Rouayheb argued that the depiction of the same-sex behavior in Islamic Homosexualities ...
Gay Muslims (2006) is a Channel 4 documentary about a man named Joe Zakar, produced and directed by Cara Lavan, about the experiences of five Muslim people who identify as lesbian and gay and how they challenge the heterosexual-worldview within Islam, and attempt to integrate Islam with homosexuality.
In a feature on the film titled "Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma risks personal safety to tell the stories of queer Muslims around the world", Cinema Politica said. In a piece entitled "Two tickets for Jihad Please", which is a direct quote from Parvez Sharma's interview with the Black Filmmakers Collective, the journalist also noted that ...
Public attitudes toward homosexuality in the Muslim world underwent a marked negative change starting from the 19th century through the gradual spread of Islamic fundamentalist movements such as Salafism and Wahhabism, [28] [29] [30] and the influence of the sexual notions and restrictive norms prevalent in Europe at the time: a number of ...
The Iranian government is denying any prior knowledge of a gay sex scandal that has led to the suspension of an official in the ultra-conservative Islamic nation. Reza Tsaghati, the head of ...
Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims is a book by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle. It was published in 2010 by Oneworld ...