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Gender Me: Homosexuality and Islam

  • January 2008
  • 52mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Nefise Özkal Lorentzen,

    Starring

    Mansour Saberi,

    Abdullah,

    Imam Daayiee,

    Kaltham

    ...

    Gender Me is a road movie about Mansour’s voyage into the world of Islam. It is a personal odyssey through a world of taboos, filled with contradictory images. He explores questions regarding faith and gender in Islam with a special focus on the unusual stories of Muslim gays. Mansour is a homosexual Iranian refugee who has been living in Oslo for the past 18 years where he works as a pharmacist. Now he wants to travel back to Istanbul, where he lived for two years before he was granted asylum in Norway.