Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following “A Jihad for Love,” his docu about gay Muslims, Indian-born, New York-based helmer Parvez Sharma again looks to prove ...

Before Parvez Sharma’s “A Sinner In Mecca” even premiered at Toronto’s Hot Docs this week, it was already proving of the festival’s most controversial films. Detailing the openly gay, devoutly Muslim ...

“I think my entire life has been leading up to this film,” said Parvez Sharma, director of the documentary, “A Jihad For Love,” which is produced by Sandi DuBowski, director of “Trembling Before G-d.” ...

TORONTO -- With 9/11-themed films dominating the Toronto International Film Festival this week, Indian filmmaker Parvez Sharma is grabbing attention with "A Jihad For Love," a documentary six years in ...

“My life is Iran,” says an Iranian refugee living in Turkey. “I miss everything.” He speaks for many gay Muslims in Parvez Sharma’s thoughtful but frustrating documentary, “A Jihad for Love,” which ...

Parvez Sharma’s mother just wanted him to settle down with a nice girl. Like many moms, she felt her son was errant, and wished that he’d change his ways. Sharma’s “ways,” however, was her euphemism ...

If you think being a gay Republican is a tough dichotomy to reconcile, try being a gay Muslim. In concept, the idea of being gay in a Muslim culture is terrifying. In reality, it could be much worse.

Following “A Jihad for Love,” his docu about gay Muslims, Indian-born, New York-based helmer Parvez Sharma again looks to prove that his faith and sexuality are compatible, this time surreptitiously ...