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Contents:

• GAY UGANDA
• UGANDAN DOCUMENTARY EXPLORES PRE-COLONIAL GAYS
• WHERE BEG GAY IS A LIFE-AND-DEATH STGGLE
• IT TAK A (GAY) VILLAGE IN 'CALL ME KUCHU'
• THE WORLD'S WORST PLACE TO BE GAY?
• NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)
• UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
• HOW US EVANGELIL MISSNARI WAGE WAR ON GAY PEOPLE UGANDA
• 'GOD LOV UGANDA': HOW RELIGN FUELED AN ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT
• BEG GAY UGANDA
• WATCH: STEP INSI GAY UGANDA WH 'CALL ME KUCHU,' NOW NEW YORK AND L.A.

GAY UGANDA

The last year the life of Uganda's first openly gay man and activist David Kato, a urageo man whose achievements were not fully regnized until after his ath. In an unmarked office at the end of a dirt track, veteran activist David Kato labors to repeal Uganda's homophobic laws and liberate his fellow lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr men and women, or "kuch.

UGANDAN DOCUMENTARY EXPLORES PRE-COLONIAL GAYS

A new "Anti-Homosexualy Bill" propos ath for HIV-posive gay men, and prison for anyone who fails to turn a known homosexual.

Meanwhile, lol newspapers have begun outg kuch wh vic fervor unr headl such as: "HOMO TERROR!

" David, Uganda's first openly gay man, is one of the few who dare to publicly prott state-sanctned homophobia.

WHERE BEG GAY IS A LIFE-AND-DEATH STGGLE

Films like Portra of Jason and Tongu Untied, for stance, tell ntemporary viewers as much about the dividual stori about gay Black men prented on screen as about the muni (real and imaged) that their rpective filmmakers brought to bear on their fished films.

Siarly, aptly-tled works like Before Stonewall: The Makg of a Gay and Lbian Communy and Forbidn Love: The Unashamed Stori of Lbian Liv offer not jt potent history lsons but snapshots of how Amerins were nceivg of their own muny-buildg the years followg the 1969 Stonewall rts. Synopsis: Filmmaker Arthur Brsan missns filmmakers throughout the untry to rerd lbian and gay pri paras and march June 1977.... Synopsis: On the eve of 1987's Send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights, survivg fai and iends of...

Crics Consens: The Celluloid Closet tak a thought-provokg look at the s of omissn and misreprentatn endured by the gay muny mastream cema. Synopsis: This documentary highlights the historil ntexts that gays, lbians, bisexuals and transgenrs have occupied cema history, and shows the... Crics Consens: Outrage walks a difficult moral and ethil le -- and not always succsfully -- but spe s flaws, 's a fascatg, provotive look at homosexualy Amerin polics.

IT TAK A (GAY) VILLAGE IN 'CALL ME KUCHU'

Synopsis: Osr-nomated documentarian Kirby Dick directs this shockg and passnate dictment of the clanste hypocrisy of many closeted homosexuals Washgton,... Crics Consens: We Were Here reviss the cris facg the gay muny the early 1980s -- and offers a powerful tribute to the spirg rolve shown at a time of turmoil.

Synopsis: Durg the 1970s, San Francis beme a safe haven for the gay and lbian muny, providg a place where one...

Synopsis: Filmmaker Yoba Richen exam the reactn of the black muny to the bate over legalizg gay marriage.... Synopsis: In Uganda, openly gay David Kato and his fellow activists work to feat new legislatn their untry that would...

THE WORLD'S WORST PLACE TO BE GAY?

Synopsis: Observ the liv of four children -- G, Ebony, Matt and Graham -- whose parents are eher gay or lbian,... Synopsis: In 1976 a uple take over an adult book store, and the store be the biggt distributor of gay porn... A documentary on gay sexualy pre-lonial Ai, which aims to refute the belief that homosexualy is ‘un-Ain’, has premiered Kampala.

Behd the Mask reports that Gay Love Pre-lonial Ai: The Untold Story of Ugandan Martyrs, produced by the Uganda Health and Science Prs Associatn (UHSPA Uganda), was recently screened the pal. The martyrs were a group of Catholic missnari and nverts executed between 1885 and 1887 by Kg Mwanga II, sometim scribed as Uganda’s gay kg.

Acrdg to Behd the Mask, the film terviews people om si the Mwanga palace, “where trac of tolerance to homosexuals is still prerved today”. The film not that most of gay pre-lonial history Ai has been lost and what was rerd was done so by European lonisers and missnari. UHSPA Uganda Director Kikonyogo Kivumbi said at the screeng that he hop that the film will add a new perspective to the stggle for gay equaly Uganda.

NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)

Movi|Where Beg Gay Is a Life-and-Death Stggle ADVERTISEMENTMovie ReviewWhere Beg Gay Is a Life-and-Death StggleCred... Kathere Fairfax Wright/Call Me KuchuCall Me KuchuNYT Cric's PickDirected by Kathere Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-WorrallDocumentary, DramaNot Rated1h 27mJune 13, 2013As you listen to Ugandan policians and preachers rant agast homosexualy the documentary “Call Me Kuchu, ” a chillg sense of relivg the past sets .

It is monplace many Ain untri nowadays for homosexualy to be nounced as an un-Ain disease imported om abroad. But as this movie shows, ralli and workshops nducted by visg Amerin evangelils like Lou Engle and Stt Lively, vilent homophobia is the real import. Kathere Fairfax Wright/Call Me KuchuThe same antigay rhetoric heard the Uned Stat durg the ascendancy of Ana Bryant and the evangelil right — but much harsher — is spewed by Ugandan zealots mpaigng for the passage of the Anti-Homosexualy Bill, first troduced 2009 and still pendg.

If the bill is passed by Uganda’s Parliament, homosexuals will face life imprisonment, and anyone who knows of the existence of a homosexual but fails to report wh 24 hours will face three years prison. Leadg the list of hero is David Kato, a fearls activist and prime mover Uganda’s gay rights movement.

UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

ViotranscripttranscriptThey Will Say We Are Not HereThe filmmakers Kathere Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall explore the motivatns, sorrows and dreams of the sla Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato.

HOW US EVANGELIL MISSNARI WAGE WAR ON GAY PEOPLE UGANDA

NoneThe filmmakers Kathere Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall explore the motivatns, sorrows and dreams of the sla Ugandan gay rights activist David valiant souls clu his clost iend, Naome, a lbian activist, and Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, who has been expelled om the Anglin Church of Uganda for his fense of gay rights. Kato’s villas clu David Bahati, a member of Parliament who 2009 troduced legislatn proposg the ath penalty for a “serial offenr” of the “offense of homosexualy, ” and Gil Muhame, the managg edor of Rollg Stone, a popular tabloid unnnected wh the Amerin magaze of the same name. Unr the headle “Hang Them, ” published the pictur, nam and addrs of 100 men and women thought to be gay.

The documentary also not a victory that was won three weeks before his ath, Uganda’s High Court, which led that Rollg Stone had threatened the “fundamental rights and eedoms” of gay people and vlated their nstutnal right to privacy. Bee of ternatnal prsure, Uganda’s print, Yoweri Meveni, has warned that passage of the Anti-Homosexualy Bill uld isolate the untry. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn C, Page 10 of the New York edn wh the headle: Where Beg Gay Is a Life-and-Death Stggle.

The Ugandan tabloid Rollg Stone — no relatn to the Amerin publitn — has been a leadg player anti-gay csas the east Ain natn. Horrific and upliftg, the excellent documentary Call Me Kuchu is partly amed as a portra of David Kato, Uganda's first openly gay man. The film is stctured around their legal fight agast a Ugandan anti-homosexualy bill that lled for the ath penalty for HIV-posive gays — and prison for anyone, regardls of sexual orientatn, who failed to turn anyone known to be L, G, B or T.

'GOD LOV UGANDA': HOW RELIGN FUELED AN ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT

David Kato, a teacher and LGBT rights activist — as well as the first openly gay man Uganda — is at the foreont of Call Me Kuchu's story. We see Amerin evangelists, clearly thrilled to fd more fertile soil for anti-gay rabble-rog than they did at home, whippg up crowds to take actn agast "sodom" who would rpt their children. The cky young edor of the trash tabloid Rollg Stone — no relatn to the Amerin magaze published (ironilly enough) by out gay media mogul Jann Wenner — crows about puttg photos of gays he outed on the ver unr the headle "Hang Them.

BEG GAY UGANDA

By the end of this hair-raisg film you may share their grief, their hope and their dream of a gay village that will shelter them om a society that, spe all s trappgs of eedom and morny, ref to receive them as equals.

The gay Rad 1 DJ fds out what 's like to live a society which persecut people like him and meets those who are leadg the hate mpaign. Seven years after an act of parliament ma homosexualy a crime punishable by ath, the anti-gay mpaigners of Uganda are at aga. Last month, the parliament of my untry once aga voted to make homosexualy a crimal offence, this time wh a 10-year prison sentence.

WATCH: STEP INSI GAY UGANDA WH 'CALL ME KUCHU,' NOW NEW YORK AND L.A.

In 2014, I played a small part makg sure that anti-LGBTQI forc Uganda do not succeed wrg their hate to law: I was one of the petners the se that succsfully overturned the famo anti-gay law.

The Ugandan ernment will not sign this anti-gay legislatn to law part bee was troduced by an outgog legislator and approved by a now-dissolved parliament.

Ined, after Uganda passed the “Kill the gays bill” – as was dubbed lolly – 2014, s reputatn on the ternatnal arena suffered. While the efforts of LGBTQI mpaigners across the globe ma highly unlikely for Uganda to sign to law another “Kill the gays bill”, the fight for LGBTQI rights the untry and the rt of Ai is far om over.