Queer Politics of Postcoloniality
Channel: War Studies KCL
Date: 2021-02-25

To mark LGBT+ History Month, the School of Security Studies Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee welcomed Dr Rahul Rao to discuss the correlation between queerness, violence and law within Uganda in his new book 'Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality'.

Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer rights. The law attracted attention for the draconian nature of its provisions and for the involvement of US evangelical Christian activists who were said to have lobbied for its passage. Focusing on the Ugandan case, this book seeks to understand the encounters and entanglements across geopolitical divides that produce and contest contemporary queer-phobias. It investigates the impact and memory of the colonial encounter on the politics of sexuality, the politics of religiosity of different Christian denominations, and the political economy of contemporary homophobic moral panics.