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First-Ever Gay Play in Uganda, August 2012
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Credit: Jan Cattebeke/RNWA theatre play on homosexuality is being staged for the first time in Uganda - a country which has proposed an Anti-Homosexuality Bill. "In Ugandan society, we hide so many things. Why not talk about it?", says one of the actors in the play entitled The River and the Mountain. -
Credit: Jan Cattebeke/RNWUganda is a country where gays and same-sex relationships are regularly condemned by conservative pastors and politicians. The play features a concerned mother over her homosexual son Samson... -
Credit: Jan Cattebeke/RNW...Who is forced to cure himself of his homosexuality to the extent of even seeking help from traditional healers. -
Credit: Jan Cattebeke/RNWHowever, all attempts fail because Samson says that being homosexual is how he was born. -
Credit: Jan Cattebeke/RNWThe play comes to a close with Samson being killed by his own employees using machetes.
The play has attracted throngs of spectators including many Western expatriates.
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