Out gay Muslim filmmaker Parvez Sharma wanted some answers as he struggled with his sexuality within his own faith so he went on a holy pilgrimage to Mecca. By doing so he very bravely took his own life in his hands by not just being in Saudi Arabia where homosexuals are still beheaded for simply being gay, but he endangered himself even further by using his cellphone to secretly film his whole journey.
The end result is his stunning movie ‘A Sinner in Mecca’ which opens today in New York and selected movie theaters around the country : here is the review from our sister site queertiques.com. This is one movie that so needs to be seen, especially by the LGBTQ community, to help us start to try and understand what Sharma and other gay Muslims have to confront.
