CHICAGO – Truth Wins Out founder and WCPT host, Wayne Besen, moderated a panel discussion on Sunday about the persecution of LGBT people in Uganda. It focused on American evangelicals exporting hate worldwide. The Legacy Project, an organization founded by Victor Salvo that educates Americans on LGBT history, sponsored the Chicago forum at the Center on Halsted.
The event featured Ugandan LGBT activist Pepe-Julian Onziema, who spoke of his friendship with murdered gay activist David Kato. Kato was memorialized by The Legacy Project with a plaque, which is among the 30 bronze memorials featured on rainbow-colored pylons in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood.
Panelists at the event were: Affinity Community Services Executive Director and Legacy Project board member Kim Hunt; Director of Operations for Planting Peace, Co-Creator and resident of Equality House Davis Hammet; Andy Thayer, of the Gay Liberation Network; John Ademola, of Chicago LGBT Asylum Support Program ( CLASP ); and Jenny Ansay, of the Northern Illinois Justice for Our Neighbors sat on the panel with Onziema.