Behind the Mirrior features Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, Transgender, and
Intersex Ugandans how they face many challenges, including discrimination in healthcare, workplaces, homes, and schools. Many LGBTI Ugandans are treated unfairly, with hatred and lack of respect. However, this is gradually changing because of the visibility of some courageous Ugandan LGBTI activists, as well as more gays and lesbians coming out of the closet.

Now the Ugandan LGBTI communities demand space, dialogue, and equal rights, to be understood and accorded the same healthcare rights like every one else in Uganda. Some members of the LGBTI communities who are living with HIV/AIDS had difficulties in accessing treatment, due to stigma.

LGBTI Ugandans are constantly harassed by the law, because Ugandan laws criminalize consensual homosexual relations. Some members of the LGBTI communities have been evicted from their homes, abused, isolated, beaten, outed in the media, and denied employment because of their sexual orientation.

In this documentary we will investigate and advocate for responses to the many challenges
faced by the LGBTI community in Uganda. This documentary will feature testimonies of LGBTI Ugandans, about their struggle to survive and to comprehend their sexual orientation, in a very hostile and homophobic society. Among those featured in the documentary will be
members of the various LGBTI communities in Uganda.

The documentary will address many issues: confronting healthcare discrimination of LGBTI
communities; why, when and how to come out; understanding of the transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS, reaching out to MSM (men who have sex with men) to seek out their voices, painting a clear picture to the world on what responses have been undertaken to eliminate HIV/AIDS within the LGBTIcommunities in Uganda, as well as the constraints
in executing these responses within the LGBTI communities.

Among those interviewed will be LGBTI activits, doctors, HIV/AIDS key players , human rights activists, and members of the LGBTI communities. Through their testimonies and wisdoms, we will seek the future directions for the LGBTI communities and movement in Uganda, to make Uganda one of the more progressive countries for LGBTI rights and equality in Africa.

We hope you will support Icebreakers Uganda in this pioneering project. Thank you very much for supporting the LGBTI struggle in Uganda.