First Run Features has acquired U.S. theatrical and DVD rights to “A Jihad for Love,” the first doc to explore the lives of gay Muslims. The film was directed by tyro Parvez Sharma and produced by ...

Homosexuality isn’t a choice, but often, many forget, neither is religion. And this is certainly the case for the world’s dense population of devout Muslims, now comprising the second largest religion ...

Defying tradition both openly and while hiding are at the root of two films screening here this week in Toronto. Parvez Sharma’s “A Jihad for Love” takes a look at a segment of the planet’s gays who ...

Muslims, Jews, and Christians may have their, oh, occasional differences, but as an Islamic scholar observes early in Parvez Sharma’s documentary, there is one point on which the world’s divine ...

A Jihad for Love, the new documentary about the plight of gay and lesbian Muslims, is enjoying a degree of acclaim as it casts light on a subject often shrouded in mystery. The film's gay Muslim ...

Saturday, September 15-----There are very few words in our contemporary culture that are as charged as the word "jihad". It has been used as a kind of talisman for conjuring up the fears of Western ...

If heterosexual, non-Muslim Americans were, until recently, mostly unaware of the prevalence and intolerance of homosexuality in the Middle East, the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, probably ...