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Ugandan Transgender Rights - Documentary Film ‘The Pearl of Africa’

Started by Serena, March 05, 2015, 05:07:55 AM

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March 05, 2015, 05:07:55 AM
Ugandan Transgender Rights Take Center Stage In Documentary Film 'The Pearl of Africa'

BY JENNIFER SEFA-BOAKYE | DECEMBER 4, 2014

http://www.okayafrica.com/film/the-pearl-of-africa-documentary-transgender-rights-in-uganda/

The Pearl of Africa is a forthcoming documentary feature that follows 27-year old student and transgender activist Cleopatra Kambugu as she openly transitions in her native Uganda where earlier this year parliamentarians sought, albeit unsuccessfully, to make her very existence a crime punishable by death.

Earlier this year, Kambugu was publicly outed on the front page of Ugandan tabloid magazine Red Pepper soon after President Yoweri Museveni signed the reprehensible Anti-Homosexuality Act into law. Forced into hiding with other LGBTI Ugandans to avoid mob attacks and arrest, Cleo lost her job and eventually relocated to Nairobi, Kenya.
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