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By Jeff Sharlet
Jeff Sharlet is a contributing editor ofHarper’s Magazine and a fellow at The Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund. His bookC Street will be published by Little, Brown this month.
A young man who called himself Blessed had agreed to meet me in front of the Speke Hotel, the oldest in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, but he was late, very late, and I had no way to contact him. Emailing me from a café, he’d said he didn’t have a phone; calling from a pay phone, he’d said he didn’t have a watch. The friends who’d put me in touch with him said he didn’t have an address. I’d seen a picture of him: he had a long neck, a narrow face, and a broad smile that made him look both kind and a little sly. I wanted to talk to him precisely because he was hard to find, because he was gay, and because he was on the run.
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| SEE ALSO:Capital punishment;Bahati, David;Homophobia;Homosexuality;Influence;Ssempa, Martin;Kyazze, Michael;Religious fundamentalism;Warren, Richard;Uganda;Views on homosexuality in Uganda | |||||||||||||
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