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World Wide Wave

10 Mar 2018

PAKISTAN: MIGRATION AND FINDING YOUR QUEER PLACE IN THE WORLD

Asia/Pacific, News & Politics

Immigration is a hot topic around the world at the moment.  Canada has been one of the countries held up as a progressive and accepting beacon in a changing world.  But is that perception a reality.  For one man originally from Pakistan, the migration process brought pain and journey of self-acceptance.

  • How do you begin to explore your sexuality in a new country when you don’t even know the word ‘gay’?
  • What caused his parents to become more conservative when they moved to a more accepting country?
  • Why would you want the world to know your story?

Looking at the LGBTI world through the lens of films at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, we were joined by Arshad Khan, Director of the documentary Abu – one of the fantastic films at the 2018 Melbourne Queer Film Festival (www.mqff.com.au), Australia’s longest running and largest queer film festival.

Broadcast: March 6, 2018

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