David Kato

On 15 (or 13*) February 1964 Ugandan teacher and LGBT rights activist David Kato was born. Kato is "considered a father of Uganda's gay rights movement and described as "Uganda's first openly gay man".  He served as advocacy officer for Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG).

David Kato was murdered at his home in 2011, shortly after winning a lawsuit against a magazine which had published his name and photograph identifying him as gay and calling for him to be executed."

(From the English Wikipedia; *The information on the date of birth differs depending on the source.)

Selected publications

Cultures at crossroads : homosexuality and human rights in Uganda / Alex Nkabahona; Byaruhanga Rukooko. - Kampala : Fountain Publishers, 2017.

Exploring moral arguments against rights of homosexuals in Uganda / A. Byaruhanga-Rukooko.
In: East African journal of peace & human rights , vol. 21, no. 2, p. 327-354, 2015

Virtual access: the Ugandan anti-gay movement, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender blogging and the public sphere / Caroline Valois.
In: Journal of eastern African studies : journal of the British Institute in Eastern Africa , vol. 9, no. 1, p. 145-162, 2015.

Homophobic legislation and its impact on human security / Makofane, Keletso.
In: African security review , vol. 23, no. 2, p. 186-195, 2014.

Homosexuality in Uganda: The Paradox of Foreign Influence / Stella Nyanzi. - Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR). MISR Working Papers 14, 2013.

The Problem with Freedom: Homosexuality and Human Rights in Uganda / Lydia Boyd.
In: Anthropological Quarterly, Volume 86, Number 3, Summer 2013, pp.697-724

Call me Kuchu = Lege me Kuchu / Katherine Fairfax Wright; Malika Zouhali-Worrall. - Paris : Cats & Dogs, 2012

David Kato's life and death in Uganda / Sonia Shah.
In: The Lancet (British edition), 2012, Vol.380 (9839), p.330-330

Remembering David Kato / Alex Iantaffi.
In: Sexual and relationship therapy, 2011-05, Vol.26 (2), p.125-126

Two views of a transgender struggle in Uganda : Victor & Georgina / Alice Smits; Lee Ellickson. - [S.l.] : Looking Glass Production, 2009

For more publications see the ASCL Library Catalogue.

Call Me Kuchu - the Guardian Film Show interview, 5-11-2012
In this episode, Call Me Kuchu director Malika Zouhali-Worrall reflects on filming with Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato in the year before he was murdered.

LBGT rights in Africa, via Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons