Gay, Queer Ai: Updated Travel Advisory for Uganda

Contents:

• UGANDA MAY IMPOSE SOME OF THE WORLD’S STRICTT ANTI-GAY MEASUR: ‘YOU’RE FEARG FOR YOUR LIFE’
• TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY
• WHAT DO UGANDA'S NEW ANTI-GAY LAW MEAN FOR LGBTQ+ TRAVEL AI?
• UGANDA'S STRICT ANTI-GAY LAWS ULD AFFECT TOURISTS

UGANDA MAY IMPOSE SOME OF THE WORLD’S STRICTT ANTI-GAY MEASUR: ‘YOU’RE FEARG FOR YOUR LIFE’

Many of Uganda’s trib have a long cultural history of homosexualy, bisexualy, cross-drsg and a general blurrg of sexual orientatns.

TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY

The origal laws forbiddg homosexual activy were not troduced by Ugandan lers, but by the Brish, unr lonial le the 19th century. It is ironic, therefore, that many of the Ugandans who are opposed to homosexualy today claim that this is bee is anti-Ugandan and anti-Ain.

WHAT DO UGANDA'S NEW ANTI-GAY LAW MEAN FOR LGBTQ+ TRAVEL AI?

Dpe Uganda’s sexually liberal history, there’s a myth that homosexualy is a Wtern ctom – beg “troduced” to the ntent as a form of cultural lonialisatn. LGBTQ+ rights anisatns also pot a fger at evangelil groups and their opposn to “gay agendas”, such as the US missnari who arrived the untry 2009. In speech held ont of thoands of participants, they claimed that homosexualy was evil, and explaed how to make gay people straight.

A survey rried out by the Pew Rearch Centre revealed that jt four percent of Ugandans were willg to state that society should accept homosexualy.

UGANDA'S STRICT ANTI-GAY LAWS ULD AFFECT TOURISTS

However, the “Kill the Gays Bill” was clared unnstutnal by the nstutnal urt of Uganda.

Tour operators such as Kabiza Wilrns Safaris have weled gay visors and facilated their experienc, cludg gorilla and wildlife there may not be many LGBTQI+ tourists Uganda, many visors om untri like the US, Canada, Atralia, New Zealand, the UK, and Europe support the LGBTQI+ muny.