A nversatn wh Amy Award-wng documentary filmmaker Roger Ross Williams about his new film, God Lov Uganda, and the state of global anti-gay sentiment.
Contents:
- WHERE BEG GAY IS A LIFE-AND-DEATH STGGLE
- A NEW ANTI-GAY LAW UGANDA LLS FOR LIFE PRISON FOR THOSE WHO ARE NVICTED
- NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)
- 'GOD LOV UGANDA': HOW RELIGN FUELED AN ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT
- HOW AMERIN EVANGELILS MA LIFE UNBEARABLE FOR GAYS UGANDA
WHERE BEG GAY IS A LIFE-AND-DEATH STGGLE
The documentary “Call Me Kuchu” chronicl the stggl of the gay rights movement Uganda, and s prime mover, David Kato, who was bludgeoned to ath January 2011. * uganda gay rights documentary *
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.
A NEW ANTI-GAY LAW UGANDA LLS FOR LIFE PRISON FOR THOSE WHO ARE NVICTED
In the documentary, director Roger Ross Williams explor the role of Amerin evangelils the anti-gay movement there. Williams and Christopher Senyonjo, an exmunited Anglin bishop, discs the llisn of relign and polics. * uganda gay rights documentary *
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 first openly gay man, he was bludgeoned to ath January 2011 at 46. 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.
NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)
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. The film’s most upsettg scene is a clash between antigay and gay activists at Mr. 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.
'GOD LOV UGANDA': HOW RELIGN FUELED AN ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT
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. To those pursug antigay legislatn, he has urged utn and moratn.
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. A Ugandan wearg a mask wh a rabow sticker tak part the Gay Pri para 2015. Uganda has passed one of the world's tought anti-gay laws that lls for life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy.
HOW AMERIN EVANGELILS MA LIFE UNBEARABLE FOR GAYS UGANDA
Ugandan print Yoweri Meveni signed the Anti-homosexualy act on Monday spe wispread nmnatn om many Wtern ernments and human rights activists. It lls for the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy, " which is fed as same-sex relatns volvg HIV-posive people, children or other vulnerable people. Anyone nvicted of "attempted aggravated homosexualy" n be imprisoned for up to 14 years.
Ugandans who engag gay sex n receive life prison, while anyone who attempts to have same-sex relatns n face 10 years prison.
"We are appalled that the dranian and discrimatory anti-gay bill is now law, " the Uned Natns' Human Rights office said a tweet on Monday. By late Monday eveng Uganda gay activiss had filed a petn the nstutnal urt, challengg the new Anti-homosexualy law.