Horrific and uplifting, the excellent documentary Call Me Kuchu is partly framed as a portrait of David Kato, Uganda's first openly gay man. An activist of enormous courage and persistence — against ...

When Ugandan lawmakers introduced an anti-homosexuality bill in 2009, it called for the death penalty for "serial offenders." That legislation failed, but a new version was reintroduced in 2012 in an ...

In a time when states are ratifying gay marriage at a record pace and the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy is old news, when the Boy Scouts of America reverse a controversial policy and now ...

Created as a documentary to expose the horrifying human rights offenses committed by the Ugandan government against the LGBT community, directors Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall ...

It’s opening night of the 62 nd Berlinale, and we’re tottering down the gleaming red carpet, tipsy with exhaustion after a marathon three-week final push to finish our documentary Call Me Kuchu for ...

When winter starts to declare its inversion-choked presence, I like to mentally and spiritually prepare for those days with a bowl of something hot. When winter starts to declare its inversion-choked ...

The 2012 Teddy Awards, a subprogram of the Berlinale that puts the spotlight on the fest’s LGBT/queer content, were announced tonight at a special “jubilee gala” at Tempelhof airport. The big winners ...

In 2009, a bill was proposed in the Ugandan parliament that would outlaw homosexuality, making the offense punishable by death. In response, the newspaper The Rolling Stone began outing members of the ...

Cinedigm has acquired domestic distribution rights to ‘Call me Kuchu,” a film that chronicles the lives of the first openly gay Ugandan man (David Kato) and three other LGBT Ugandans (“Kuchus”).

There are documentaries, and then there are works like Call Me Kuchu, directed and written by Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall, that transcend such a mere definition. This ...

An excellent documentary looks at Uganda's controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill — both its personal and political implications — through the... Horrific and uplifting, the excellent documentary Call ...

A fierce, homegrown anti-gay movement and a vastly outnumbered LGBT community confront each other in Uganda to uncertain and unsettling results in "Call Me Kuchu." The hero of Wright and ...