Call Me Kuchu (2012)

Call Me Kuchu: Directed by Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall. With David Bahati, David Kato, Gilles Muhame, Naome Ruzindana. In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato – Uganda’s first openly gay man – and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.

“Moving beyond tears, and the shocking ending caught me by surprise. Empathy goes a long way, but this film shows that, empathy, like charity, must begin at home…along with compassion, tolerance, and fairness. Whether its fear, errant biblical application, or plain stupidity that motivates a nation to u0026quot;outu0026quot; suspected homosexuals, things need to change there in Uganda. Note the word u0026quot;suspected,u0026quot; since some citizenu0026#39;s names and photos have been published in the Ugandan scandal-rag u0026quot;Rolling Stoneu0026quot; and targeted for prosecution and murder. Of course, itu0026#39;s easy to pick on Uganda. The whole world is filled with intolerables and people who support them, but letu0026#39;s face it, you got to pt out the biggest fires first, and Uganda is a raging inferno. I realize that this film probably wonu0026#39;t be seen by those who most need to see it, and if perchance they do, itu0026#39;ll just harden their stone quarry mid-sections. But AfroPixFlix says see this. Be aware.”