Returng emigre Mawaan Rizwan disvers unexpected facets of gay life the untry. TV review by Tom Birchenough
Contents:
- HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?
- BBC DOCUMENTARY PRENTER TAK BIZARRE £12 GAY 'MIRACLE CURE' REMEND BY RELIG LEAR
- MAWAAN RIZWAN ASKS ‘HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?’ ON ABC2
- HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?
- 7 HILAR GAY COMEDIANS WHO SLAY EVERY PERFORMANCE
- HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?, BBC THREE
- RACE IS ON TO REVIVE MUCH-LOVED LONDON GAY PUB THE JOERS ARMS
HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?
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Rizwan me out as gay to his tradnal Mlim parents at the age of 24. In 2016 he hosted the documentary How Gay Is Pakistan? Which explored the issu faced by other LGBTQ Mlims livg unr Islamic law that ems homosexualy illegal.
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MAWAAN RIZWAN ASKS ‘HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?’ ON ABC2
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HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?
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Picture: Channel 4Meet Mawaan RizwanMawaan, 28, is a wrer and edian who began his reer on Youtube when he was 16 years then, he has bee the wrer for Netflix’s Sex Edutn seri, stars Two Weeks To Live as an actor and has performed at Live At The Pakistan before movg to London when he was 2 years old, he went on to host How Gay is Pakistan? Documentary explor the issu faced by other LGBTQ Mlims livg unr Islamic law that ems homosexualy illegal. He me out as gay to his parents at the age of 24.
In 2015, he filmed the documentary How Gay is Pakistan? He me out as gay at the age of 24.
7 HILAR GAY COMEDIANS WHO SLAY EVERY PERFORMANCE
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BBC documentary prenter tak bizarre £12 gay 'miracle cure' remend by relig learPrenter Mawaan Rizwan sets out to disver what life is like for gay people Pakistan and humours an Imam who tells him he n cure himPrenter Mawaan Rizwan on How Gay Is Pakistan? Mawaan Rizwan tts out an alleged 'miracle cure' for his homosexualy after a relig Imam claimed n stop people om havg gay sexual thoughts.
HOW GAY IS PAKISTAN?, BBC THREE
Mawaan heads east the BBC Three documentary How Gay is Pakistan?, to fd out what life is like for gay people the cy and cis to humour the advice and take the £12 remedy. He viss the relig lear his qut to unrstand what means to be gay for those who follow the Islamic relign. " After Mawaan reveals he is gay himself, the Imam tells him he only has two optns to help him stay alive if he was to live Pakistan: "Eher live a secret life or leave the untry of orig.
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" The prenter is told by the Imam that as a homosexual he should "purge his md of thoughts and let God show him the right path". For Mawaan, who happily liv the UK as a gay man, he says: "I'm really lucky that I n live openly and eely and not have to be sred for my life every day, which sadly is the se for a lot of the people I met. " * How Gay is Pakistan?
Pakistani-Bron Mawaan Rizwan heads back to South Asia to try and better unrstand why his Pakistani parents stggled wh their son g out as a gay man. Homosexualy is illegal Pakistan, garnerg prison sentenc or even ath, yet the natn has a burgeong gay scene which begs the qutn – why are LGBT rights not beg addrsed? Riswan speaks to queer activists, transgenr sex workers, straight-intifyg men who enjoy sex wh other men a untry where homosocial behavur (such as men holdg hands) is monplace, yet queerns remas the greatt taboo.