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June 26th, 2012
We will be releasing HotDocs winner Call Me Kuchu this November in the UK and Ireland, but lucky audiences at the East End Film Festival can catch it at a special preview on Thursday July 5th at the Hackney picturehouse cinema.
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 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender men and women, or “kuchus.” But David’s formidable task just became much more difficult. A new “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” proposes death for HIV-positive gay men, and prison for anyone who fails to turn in a known homosexual. Inspired by American evangelicals who have christened Uganda ground zero in their war on the “homosexual agenda,” the bill awaits debate in Uganda’s Parliament. Meanwhile, local newspapers have begun outing kuchus with vicious fervor under headlines such as: “HOMO TERROR! We Name and Shame Top Gays in the City.”
David, Uganda’s first openly gay man, is one of the few who dare to publicly protest state-sanctioned homophobia. Working with an idiosyncratic clan of fellow activists, David fights Uganda’s government and tabloids in the courts, on television, and at the United Nations. Because, he insists, “if we keep on hiding, they will say we’re not here.”
After the screening there will be a Q&A with director Malika Zouhali-Worrall. Also on the panel will be David Kato Vision & Voice Award recipient Maurice Tomlinson. Tomlinson is an LGBT activist and lawyer, who had to flee his home in Jamaica because of death threats.
