User:Deusdedit Kiriisa

Deusdedit Kiriisa

Born             Kampala

Nationality      Ugandan

Years active	 since 2009

Home town        Masaka District

BIOGRAPHY

Deusdedit Kiriisa, also known as Deus Kiriisa, (born 1986) is a Ugandan LGBTIQ human rights activist, and a filmmaker. He is a qualified journalist who uses media to advocate for social justice of the marginalized community.

ACTIVISM

Kiriisa, started fighting for gay rights when he got a chance to volunteer for a queer organization at University. In 2014, he was outed in a local tabloid Red Pepper as a gay man days after the Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni signed the anti-gay law in 2014.

Kiriisa joined Voices Combating Homophobia in Uganda (VoCHU), a televised LGBTIQ platform that was initiated by Pepe Julian Onziema together with gay video historian Tim McCarthy. There he began documenting stories, events, producing and editing short films and documentaries about LGBTIQ persons in Uganda.

In 2017, Kiriisa is among the producers of the documentary titled "See Me As" which covers a wide range of different events that have transpired in the Ugandan LGBTIQ movement over the course of the last four years. He screened a draft version in the whole Uganda days before the police raided the Queer Kampala Film Festival.

He is also a trained Peer educator for Icebreakers Uganda where he volunteered in referrals, distribution of health consumables, and giving hope to his peers.

Kiriisa has worked on numerous LGBTIQ activism projects with Sexual Minorities Uganda, Pride Uganda (as a media volunteer), Kuchu Times media, Kasha Nabagesera, and Frank Mugisha Kiriisa was among the thirty outstanding international LGBTIQ leaders who were honored by the Ambassador of Norway during the Human Rights Campaign’s Global Innovative Advocacy Summit held in Washington, D.C.

In addition to that, Kiriisa was among the activists selected to take part in the Sexuality Leadership Fellowship in Lagos, Nigeria in 2015. Kiriisa, has presented at both local and international summits, he has also been hosted on international radio talk shows to talk about his LGBTI activism in Uganda.

SHORT FILMS / DOCUMENTARIES

We gonna get a future

Police Raid

Mr and Mrs Pride

See Me As