1. David Kato was educated at King's College Budo and Kyambogo University and taught at various schools including the Nile Vocational Institute in Njeru near Jinja.
15 Facts About David Kato
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David Kato left to teach for a few years in Johannesburg, South Africa during its transition from apartheid to multiracial democracy, becoming influenced by the end of the apartheid-era ban on sodomy and the growth of LGBT rights in South Africa.
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David Kato continued to maintain contact with pro-LGBT activists outside the country, with LGEP executive director Phumzile S Mtetwa later citing an encounter with Kato at the 1999 ILGA World Conference.
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When St Herman Nkoni Boys Primary School was founded in 2002 in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Masaka, David Kato joined the faculty.
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David Kato became highly involved with the underground LGBT rights movement in Uganda, eventually becoming one of the founding members of SMUG on 3 March 2004.
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David Kato was given a one year fellowship at the Centre for Applied Human Rights based at the University of York in the United Kingdom, a centre which provides fellowships to vulnerable and threatened human rights activists as a reprieve from the dangers they face in their own countries.
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David Kato was among the 100 people whose names and photographs were published in October 2010 by the Ugandan tabloid newspaper Rolling Stone in an article which called for their execution as homosexuals.
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On 26 January 2011, at around 2:00 PM EAT, after talking on the phone with SMUG member Julian Pepe Onziema a few hours before, David Kato was assaulted in his home in Bukusa, Mukono Town, by a man who hit him twice in the head with a hammer.
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David Kato later died en route to the Kawolo General Hospital.
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David Kato was sentenced to 30 years with hard labour, by Justice Joseph Mulangira, on Thursday 10 November 2011.
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David Kato's funeral was held on 28 January 2011, in Nakawala.
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David Kato was a powerful advocate for fairness and freedom.
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In 2014, David Kato was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display in Chicago, Illinois which celebrates LGBTQ history and people.
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David Kato was interviewed by US filmmakers Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall for a documentary film on his life, Call Me Kuchu, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on 11 February 2012.
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David Kato met Roger Ross Williams shortly before his death and was an inspiration in the making of God Loves Uganda, a documentary exploring connections between Christian evangelism in North America and in Uganda.