Logo (AfterEllen.com's parent company) kicks off its “beCAUSE” documentary series this Saturday with BBC Worldwide’s The World’s Worst Place to Be Gay?, one of the most depressing and frustrating hours of television that I will ever wholeheartedly recommend that you watch in its entirety.
Narrator Scott Mills is an openly gay BBC radio presenter – one who is young and urban enough that he’s never really experienced any hassles for being gay, and, indeed, he admits that hasn’t really thought much about the gay rights movement because he hasn’t had to. Mills travels to Uganda, a country in the middle of a massive and terrifying wave of homophobia. Gays and lesbians in Uganda face public shaming and harassment, beatings, arrests, and much worse: It’s common for lesbians to be subject to "corrective rape," and Ugandan Lgbt activist David Kato was beaten to death with...
Narrator Scott Mills is an openly gay BBC radio presenter – one who is young and urban enough that he’s never really experienced any hassles for being gay, and, indeed, he admits that hasn’t really thought much about the gay rights movement because he hasn’t had to. Mills travels to Uganda, a country in the middle of a massive and terrifying wave of homophobia. Gays and lesbians in Uganda face public shaming and harassment, beatings, arrests, and much worse: It’s common for lesbians to be subject to "corrective rape," and Ugandan Lgbt activist David Kato was beaten to death with...
- 10/20/2011
- by Ali Davis
- AfterEllen.com
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