Hunted: Gay and Afraid

Two years after her shocking documentary about anti-gay attacks and thuggery in Russia following the introduction of its anti-gay propaganda laws, Liz MacKean turns her attention to huge American Christian Right groups who fund and advise the drawing up of pro “traditional relationship” laws around the world, including Slovakia and Uganda. In the latter country gay oppression can be brutally violent, and she talks to a young man who’s lost everything after his arrest for being a homosexual. It’s a depressing picture of wretched intolerance. Dispatches looks into claims that US-based group the World Congress of Families has used its pro-family message to support anti-gay legislation in Russia - and even lobby the Slovakian government to pass new laws curtailing the rights of the gay community. Reporter Liz MacKean talks to victims of gay hate crime, and to the leader of the WCF, Larry Jacobs.