Film Showing
and Discussion with Special Guests
"God Loves Uganda"
Join us
at Revolution Books next Tuesday, June 17, 7pm, for a screening of "God
Loves Uganda" (83 minutes), a powerful documentary of American Christian
fascists' campaign to enforce their deadly "traditional American
values" of homophobia and patriarchy on this African country.
"Filmmaker Roger Ross Williams exposes the missionary movement in
Uganda as an outgrowth of Africa's colonialist past and a twenty-first
century crusade to recreate a continent of people in the image and
likeness of America's most extreme fundamentalists. Williams captures
vérité footage so shocking that viewers may be squirming in their seats.
Masterfully crafted and astonishingly provocative, God Loves Uganda may
be the most terrifying film of the year."
Sundance London, April 2014
Discussion following the film will include Brent Holman-Gomez and Wayne Besen:
Brent Holman-Gomez's work with Gay Liberation Network has
developed international solidarity of LGBTQIs, particularly from Iran,
Russia, Honduras, and Nigeria, while calling attention to scapegoating
and those that would deny LGBT communities' very existence. As part of
the Planning Team for Chicago Coalition of Welcoming Churches, he has
promoted African organizations that work to make religious groups
inclusive of LGBTIs.
Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out
and author of "Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies
Behind the Ex-Gay Myth" (Haworth, 2003). In 2006, Besen was recognized
in the Advocate Magazine's "People of the Year" issue. He hosts "I've
Got Issues" on Chicago's WCPT radio. He organized the American Prayer
Hour, an event that shined a spotlight on the role American evangelicals
played in the introduction of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
$5 suggested donation to keep Revolution Books open; no one turned away.
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