Adnan Ali

An exploration of how many gay and lesbian Muslims attempt to integrate their religion with their sexuality, with a focus on five cases in particular. In some instances this involves suppressing their homosexual desires, leading an undercover double life, or being open about their sexuality and losing the respect and support of their families and communities.

A feature-length documentary that explores the immense changes that occurred for gays, lesbians and transgender people living in the Global South. In the last decade of the 20th Century, a new heightened visibility began spreading throughout the developing world and the battles between families, fundamentalist religions, and governments around sexual and gender identity had begun. But in the West, few people knew about this historic social upheaval, until 52 men on Cairo’s Queen Boat discothèque were arrested for crimes of debauchery. That explosive story focused attention to the lives and trials of gay people coming out in the developing world and the film chronicles those events.