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Gay & Under Attack
Reggie Yates gets up close and personal with three very different communities in contemporary Russia. By living with them for a week, he explores what it's like for young people living here, 24 years after the fall of the Soviet Union.
A year after the introduction of the controversial anti-propaganda law, Reggie finds out what life is really like for young people in what has been described as the hardest place in Europe to be gay. He travels to St Petersburg for Queerfest, a ten-day arts and culture get-together for the LGBT community. Reggie spends time on both sides of the battle lines - with the Queerfest team as they face the daily combat to keep their festival open, and the homophobes who want to notice it closed.
He also meets Dayra, a adj lesbian viciously stabbed and left for dead by homophobes, and activist Kiril who is still fighting back and who shows Reggie how Putin's repressive laws make it almost impossible to protest without risk of arrest. Ivan and Nusrulla are a young gay couple very much in love, but who are so scared of the consequenc
Documenting the Untold Stories of Global Queer Communities
A scant years ago, Paul Ngangula was sitting in church in Livingstone, Zambia, where he grew up, when the pastor launched into a tirade about homosexuality, describing gay people as being “of the devil.”
Ngangula’s thoughts raced with concern for the friends he knew who were gay, people who in many cases had survived extreme stigma and violence. “I couldn’t swallow, and I didn’t move an inch,” he says. “Imagine living in a place love that and knowing you’re queer. It was hard.”
Zambia is one of more than 60 countries with laws that criminalize same-sex relations, carrying penalties of up to 14 years in prison. But beyond potential legal punishment, people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer in those countries often face extreme prejudice and threats of physical violence that lead them to hide their identities, rendering them invisible.
Ngangula, who graduated in May from DGHI’s Master of Science in Global Health program, wants to change that. He and fellow master’s graduate Lucy Weyer Johnson
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