A Missionary Position

A first-generation Ugandan American with personal relationships and ties to Uganda, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine has been engrossed in on-the-ground research and documentation there throughout the past year. Interviewing and meeting with leading figures on many sides of the issue over recent months, Mwine has gathered and shot video footage and still photographs from the front lines of the African nation’s LGBT movement.

The resulting solo show layers this documentary material with riveting portrayals of the LGBT community as seen through the eyes of a Ugandan government official, a transgender sex worker, a gay priest and a lesbian activist drawn from the in-person interviews to create a complex investigation of the burgeoning resistance to state-supported oppression–and more hopefully, the countering forces of a growing gay rights movement–currently unfolding in Uganda.