[3] Because of the threat of violence and persecution he faces in Uganda, Wambere was approved for asylum in the United States by the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services on September 11, 2014.
[5] In an interview on Legal Lines with Timothy Lynch, an LGBTQ Massachusetts Bar Association production,[6] Wambere said of his childhood, "We heard about gay people.
They hold workshops to encourage people to check their HIV/STI status and use condoms and proper lubricants; they also provide advocacy support to help combat LGBTI discrimination.
[8][9] However, recent, intensifying anti-homosexual sentiment in Uganda has been associated with the dissemination of anti-gay rhetoric by evangelical Christians, particularly Scott Lively, who came to Kampala in March 2009.
[12] Museveni was criticized by the UN, who said the law "violates basic human rights and endangers lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the country.
"[1] He was forced to move homes and change phone numbers several times; still, he continued to receive death threats.
"[15] The tabloid was criticized by the Human Rights Watch for putting these men in danger of increased government harassment.
About a year before the film was released, on 26 January 2011, Kato was brutally murdered; he had just won lawsuit against a magazine which had published his name and photograph identifying him as gay and calling for him to be executed.
[5] Wambere visited the United States on 20 February 2014 to rally support against the increasingly violent crackdown on the LGBTI community in Uganda.
[19] Facing death threats and life imprisonment if he returned home, Wambere worked with GLAD to file for asylum with the U.S.
"I have devoted my life to working for LGBTI people in Uganda, and it gives me great pain not to be with my community, allies, and friends while they are under increasing attack.