Homosexuality is criminalized in more than 60 countries around the world, and for the past five years, an annual theater festival in New York City has elevated the work of playwrights from countries where their queerness can land them in prison, or worse. Adam Odsess-Rubin founded the National Queer Theater in May 2018 to promote queer storytelling, community and representation. But later that year a play submission arrived and opened a new chapter in the organization’s queer advocacy.
” The journey for Olwoch’s “The Survival” began in 2016, when she wrote the play about the life of a young Ugandan woman faced with a decision to be a surrogate mother for a gay couple. As a queer woman living in Uganda, Olwoch said, she was assaulted in 2017 for the perceived promotion of homosexuality in her work. The attack left her unable to walk the entire following year.
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