Free Queer Film Screening: Homosexuality in Uganda | Roxie Cinema

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“Frameline Encore”: Free Edgy Queer Film Series | Bay Area

Enjoy edgy free queer film year-round with the Frameline Encore Screening Series in San Francisco and Oakland.

Frameline Encore aims to increase accessibility to diverse queer stories, with an emphasis on films and discussions about underrepresented experiences, such as gender variant folks and queer communities of color.

Please note, the screening will take place at either The Roxie or The Landmark Theatres Piedmont.

Thursday, November 7, 2013
Call Me Kuchu | “Frameline Encore”: Free Edgy Queer Film Series | Bay Area

Frameline Encore screening series presents “Call Me Kuchu” winner of the Frameline36 Audience Award for Best Documentary

Expected guests: Directors Katherine Fairfax Wright & Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Homophobia is rampant across the African continent. But in Uganda it has been taken to a new—and perilous—extreme. Here, homosexuality is not only considered sinful; it is illegal. From Kampala to the remote villages, gay people—or kuchus, as gay people are known—are at risk of being beaten, harassed and even stoned to death. And a new Anti-Homosexuality Bill has been introduced in Parliament which would take the law several steps further, imposing a death sentence for HIV-positive gay men and a three-year prison sentence for anyone who fails to turn in a known homosexual—even your own child.

Yet amidst all the venom and homophobic fervor, veteran activist David Kato is undeterred in his fight for the rights of the LGBT community. The first openly gay man in Uganda, Kato boldly dares to protest publicly—in the courts, on television, at the United Nations—despite the great personal danger it poses to him and his small band of fellow kuchu activists. Yet no one truly expects the tragedy to come, when Kato is suddenly and brutally murdered. Call Me Kuchu is a remarkable portrait of one man’s courage and conviction and the inspiring final testimony of a true David fighting a vociferous Goliath.

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