Banned Kenyan gay film set to be streamed across Ai

Contents:

• KENYA BANS GAY-THEMED MOVIE, SPARKG DEBATE ON LGBTQ RIGHTS
• I AM SAMUEL: KFCB RTRICTS KENYAN GAY-THEMED DOCUMENTARY FILM
• ‘THE SKY DON’T LLAPSE.’ A FILMMAKER EXPLOR GAY LIFE KENYA.
• I AM SAMUEL IS A TENR LOOK AT A GAY KENYAN UPLE’S LIV AND LOVE
• BANNED KENYAN GAY FILM SET TO BE STREAMED ACROSS AI
• KENYAN GAY FILM ‘I AM SAMUEL’ PREMIERS AT LONDON FTIVAL

KENYA BANS GAY-THEMED MOVIE, SPARKG DEBATE ON LGBTQ RIGHTS

" Of urse, his own circumstanc are different om Samuel's, a closeted gay man livg Nairobi wh his partner, knowg that the revelatn of his sexual orientatn, will tear his fay apart. He adds, "It is very rare for a poor, unted gay man to be given a platform to tell his story om his pot of view, particularly Kenya where such love is not accepted by society.

I AM SAMUEL: KFCB RTRICTS KENYAN GAY-THEMED DOCUMENTARY FILM

Money and privilege n buy some privacy and secury if you are gay, but Samuel has none of that.

" In Kenya, homosexualy is still crimalized unr lonial-era laws. We are ed to people beg eher one thg or the other, but here we have a man who is nservative, tradnal, relig and gay. He is not the image people have when they thk of a gay man, and I thk this is an important part to pture.

‘THE SKY DON’T LLAPSE.’ A FILMMAKER EXPLOR GAY LIFE KENYA.

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Jim Chuchu, Kenya, 2014Kenyan filmmaker Jim Chuchu and the Nairobi-based Nt Collective's anthology, one of Okayai's Top Films of 2014, picts queer life Kenya through a seri of five black-and-whe vigte is based off of a te story om a larger photo project, also tled Stori of Our Liv, which The Nt Collective archived the ttimoni of persons intifyg as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and tersex om Kenya begng June 2013. Roger Ross Williams, USA, 2013Amy Award-wng filmmaker Roger Ross Williams' 2013 documentary is a powerful exposé on how Amerin evangelils are brgg vlent homophobia to Uganda.

I AM SAMUEL IS A TENR LOOK AT A GAY KENYAN UPLE’S LIV AND LOVE

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‘I Am Samuel’, which took director Peter Murimi five years to shoot, is a documentary which tells the story of two gay men who mt both balance their relatnships wh fay duti. Acrdg to the Kenyan Penal Co, troduced by the Brish lonial admistratn more than a century ago, homosexual acts rry a 14-year prison sentence.

BANNED KENYAN GAY FILM SET TO BE STREAMED ACROSS AI

NAIROBI, Kenya— The Kenya Film Classifitn Board recently banned the documentary film “I am Samuel” about a relig gay man’s stggle for acceptance om his fay and untry, sparkg bate on the rights of the LGBTQ muny as well as terpretatns of the Bible on same-sex relatnships.

The ma difference is that Samuel, our ma character, had to reckon wh homophobia and vlence.

KENYAN GAY FILM ‘I AM SAMUEL’ PREMIERS AT LONDON FTIVAL

Gay sex is treated as a crime Kenyan law, punishable by up to 14 years prison a penal datg to many stanc, those opposed to LGBTQ rights strs that Kenya is a Christian natn and that such practic have no place there.

She heard about a gay man who was an alholic. John 3:16 tells that God loved the whole world and gave J for all of , the gays clud.

The suatn is worse for the gays and lbians, and we try our bt to help them live quietly their muni. ”Kenya’s laws about media and homosexualyA lonial-era law, Article 165 of Kenya’s penal outlaws homosexualy, while provisns the Films and Stage Plays Act (Cap. 222) require licensg and thorizatn om the ernment Film Classifitn Board before d-visual ntent n be created or has been an pennt untry for 55 years, and s current nstutn is s 11th, the film board’s CEO, has argued that any film or broadst ntent that appears to “legalize, advote, normalize or glorify” gay sex ntradicts the law on homosexualy and is therefore unacceptable.