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4 Jul, 10 tweets, 4 min read

@RogerRossWill

1./ A HERO FROM UGANDA.
The struggle for equality for LGB people in Uganda has had many heroes but none perhaps greater than David Kato. It was his murder in 2011 that inspired @RogerRossWill to make his brilliant documentary 'God Loves Uganda' 👇

2./ In interviews about the film, Williams explained Kato had told him there was "an untold story of the damage American fundamentalist evangelicals are doing in Uganda and their aggressive effort to harvest young, unclaimed souls... " tfiny.org/blog/detail/ro…

3./ Kato had warned him evangelicals had come to Uganda "to preach a gospel of love intertwined with a gospel of intolerance." A founder of the country's gay rights movement Kato spoke at a UN human rights conference in Kampala in 2009. A US diplomat later described the reaction.

@dbahati

4./ In a secret cable later released by Wikileaks the diplomat recorded how reps from the Uganda Human Rights Commission heckled and joked when Kato got up to speak. Then @dbahati the notorious US-linked politician arrived to deliver a tirade against homosexuality.

@martinssempa

5./As rumours spread of a police raid, the gay activists fled the conference. At the end of Bahati's tirade local evangelical pastor and equally noted homophobe @martinssempa banged the table. He's the guy who drummed up support for the 'Kill the Gays' Bill in inimitable style...

6./ CONTENT WARNING:
Not for the sensitive

In this video, Ssempa, (a Christian pastor!) shows hardcore porn to a congregation. He uses it to claim that all gays eat excrement and take fists "up to the elbow". And you thought Mary Whitehouse was extreme…

7./ This wasn't all David Kato and his brave colleagues were were up against. A year after Ssempa and Bahati began agitating for a 'Kill the Gays' Bill, a local rag, Rolling Stone, printed the names, photographs and addresses of "Uganda's Top 100 Homos". theguardian.com/world/2010/oct…

8./ Kato was on the cover. A headline called for all 100 to be killed. "Hang them; They are after our kids!!" and "Thousands of parents face heart-break as homos raids schools". Shortly after Kato successfully sued the magazine in 2011 he was found bludgeoned to death.👇

9./ The trauma for his friends deepened when during the funeral proceedings the local priest realised Kato had been gay and started railing against immorality and angrily demanded the mourners repent. A crowd of locals joined in the barracking. slate.com/human-interest…

10./ There had been endless death threats against David Kato. In November 2011, a 22-year-old, Enoch Nsubuga, was found guilty of his murder and jailed for 30 years.

RIP David Kato, relentless battler against homophobia. aljazeera.com/news/2011/11/1…

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