Abstract
In the opening sequences of the documentary, Vanguard: Missionaries of Hate (Current TV 2010), American Christian evangelists are related to the context of Uganda:
[Image of white male (Scott Lively) gesticulating in front of a class room] “The Gay Movement is an evil institution”
Voiceover of Mariana van Zeller: Scott Lively is an American who preaches about what he calls the gay agenda.
Scott Lively: I have spoken on these topics in almost forty countries.
Van Zeller: True, Lively has given this talk many times, in many places. But this particular video is from a conference that Lively headlined in [the] East African nation of Uganda, and many believe that it had an explosive effect. One month after the American’s visit a bill was introduced that would make homosexuality a crime punishable with life in prison, or in some cases death.
Current TV’s documentary places the context of the West, and specifically Christian evangelists, as the likely cause for problems within “Third World” Africa.1 The discourse of Missionaries of Hate and the presence of Mariana van Zeller (see Figure 1.1) offer complex subjectivity in exploring the relationship between the Western, and the non-Western.
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Pullen, C. (2012). LGBT Transnational Documentary “Becoming”. In: Pullen, C. (eds) LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373310_2
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