That Ugandan
Flaming Homosexual
When the images are missing.
Superimposed by the experiences of violence, the memory images are missing, warped visions of the past.
And how are we supposed to know who we are when the images of childhood and the emotional sketches of our growing up have been erased?
The short film THAT UGANDAN FLAMING HOMOSEXUAL tells the story of growing up in Uganda from a personal perspective.
Meanwhile, the country, its government, is notorious for persecuting homosexuals; draconian punishments – in 2023, President Yoweri Museveni signed an anti-homosexual law that amounts to a death threat – create an atmosphere of fear and constant repression characterizes everyday life.
The film tells a story about DeLovie Kwagala’s constant becoming, rooted in their traumatic experience of growing up “different” but never knowing what “different” meant.
It is about navigating their sexuality and identity through a homophobic society to eventually become the first openly non-binary queer photographer in Uganda. It shows how their anger and hunger to be heard and seen transforms into my activism and commitment to a collective articulation of African queerness and resilience.
“No one is voiceless until the will to speak up has been taken away from them.”
— DeLovie Kwagala
That Ugandan Flaming Homosexual
DeLovie Kwagala (Papa De)
Kampala
2023
