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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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.