You went with him to visit his family both before and just after he came out to them, which happened during the period you were following him. You spent a great deal of time with Sammy, and then later with Sammy and Alex. A lot of it is filmed inside people’s houses, at parties and family gatherings. So he wanted to make this film for people who come from the village, like him, so that those people know they are not alone. And he told me when he was growing up and coming to terms with who he was, he had not one grown person in his life or community who he knew was queer. He comes from the countryside, and he worked in Nairobi on a construction site. He had his own motivations for being involved.
And he was interested almost from day one. So I also wanted my film to be a more representative story in that sense, because it’s more true to what’s happening. But that more mainstream story has rarely been told. That means the majority of queer Kenyan men and women are poor.
What do we do now?īut most people in Kenya are poorer than the middle class.
