HIV alarm Uganda as anti-gay law forc LGBT 'lockdown' | Rters

Contents:

• ANTI-GAY 'THERAPY' OFFERED AT UGANDA HEALTH CENTR RUN BY AID-FUND GROUPS
• NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)
• HIV ALARM UGANDA AS ANTI-GAY LAW FORC LGBT 'LOCKDOWN'
• KAMPALA
• UGANDA | ANTI-GAY ‘THERAPY’ OFFERED BY US-FUND HEALTH CENTR
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA
• ATTACKS ON LGBT+ UGANDANS SEEN RISG AFTER MISTER PROPOS ATH FOR GAY SEX
• ANTI-GAY ‘THERAPY’ OFFERED AT UGANDA HEALTH CENTR RUN BY AID-FUND GROUPS

ANTI-GAY 'THERAPY' OFFERED AT UGANDA HEALTH CENTR RUN BY AID-FUND GROUPS

In the six weeks sce Uganda’s print signed the untry’s Anti-Homosexualy Act (AHA) to law, the LGBTQ muny and s supporters Kampala, Uganda’s pal and largt cy, have faced latg harassment and secury threats. The regulatn has led to more than 300 human rights vlatns agast people spected of beg gay Uganda, acrdg to reportg om CNN.

Although gay men and their sexual works prise ls than a third of new HIV s the untry, ntag the fectn’s spread among men, women, and children pends on steady accs to HIV treatment and preventn.

He was told the bure had rmatn on the group’s volvement immoral acts and the recment of mors for homosexual behavr. It’s very hard to provi rmatn that clus sexual health for men who have sex wh men or for LGBTQ persons, bee now that is also termed as promotn of homosexualy.

NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)

And now thori are viewg jt providg lubrints as promotn of homosexualy, so our suppli of those have gone down. There’s a false narrative that clics like ours promote homosexualy and human traffickg.

HIV ALARM UGANDA AS ANTI-GAY LAW FORC LGBT 'LOCKDOWN'

I’ve heard some Ugandan activists suggt foreigners should be kd of quiet about their disagreement wh this law to avoid playg to the ia that Uganda is vg to Wtern prsure if adopts a more open stance toward homosexualy.

Cred: openDemocracyKAMPALA, Jun 30 (IPS) - At Mulago, Uganda’s biggt public hospal, a receptnist at an HIV clic for margalised and ‘most at risk’ populatns, cludg LGBT people, said that an unrver reporter’s 17-year-old gay brother uld “qu” his same-sex attractn.

KAMPALA

“Whoever wants to qu homosexualy, we nnect them, ” she said – to external unsellors, who have clud Pastor Solomon Male, a lolly known anti-gay mpaigner. She also gave our unrver reporter the phone number of a man who “was once a patient here” and “was once a homosexual but isn’t anymore” USAID aid agency – which says supports LGBTQI+ clive velopment – gave the Most At Risk Populatns Iniative (MARPI) that ns this clic a $420, 000 grant 2019, endg this September. )It is jt one of several exampl of health centr Uganda where our unrver reporters ught staff providg, or providg referrals for, ntroversial anti-gay ‘therapi’ vtigatn intified siar support for ‘anti-gay’ unsellg activi at three hospals the Uganda Catholic Medil Bure (UCMB) work.

UGANDA | ANTI-GAY ‘THERAPY’ OFFERED BY US-FUND HEALTH CENTR

This work received more than $1m om USAID between 2019 and this April, though is unclear whether the specific hospals intified this vtigatn received any of this one of the hospals – Nsambya, Uganda’s biggt private health facily – staff referred our reporters to the private office of Cabre Miibi, on the outskirts of Kampala, who mixed Frdian theori, biblil quot and anti-gay sults his diagnosis. Miibi, who is also a staff unsellor at Nsambya, stated that sex whout procreatn “be evil” – before remendg what he lled “exposure therapy”, tellg our unrver reporter to “get a hoemaid” that her supposedly gay teenage brother n “get attracted ’’, one who is “between 18 and 20 years of age”. ”‘Extremely uhil’Globally, more than 65 associatns of doctors, psychologists or unsellors have nmned ‘nversn therapy’ practic, acrdg to a 2020 report by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) rights untri (Brazil, Ecuador and Malta) have banned the practic – which range om ‘talk therapy’ to physil ‘treatments’ cludg so-lled aversn therapy, while Germany has banned them when applied to mors.

Several US stat have also passed bans, while the UK recently pledged to do the same sex is illegal Uganda, and homosexualy is heavily stigmatised.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA

He claimed that homosexualy is ed by factors rangg om peer prsure to the ter, and also said that n be “changed”. Homosexualy, said Cabre Miibi (the unsellor referred by Nsambya Hospal) is often ed by “unrolved petn” between a child and a same-sex parent for the attentn of an oppose-sex parent durg their velopment’s “phallic stage” wore a label on his at sayg “clil psychologist” when he met our reporters. Seven years after an act of parliament ma homosexualy a crime punishable by ath, the anti-gay mpaigners of Uganda are at aga.

Last month, the parliament of my untry once aga voted to make homosexualy a crimal offence, this time wh a 10-year prison sentence. In 2014, I played a small part makg sure that anti-LGBTQI forc Uganda do not succeed wrg their hate to law: I was one of the petners the se that succsfully overturned the famo anti-gay law.

The Ugandan ernment will not sign this anti-gay legislatn to law part bee was troduced by an outgog legislator and approved by a now-dissolved parliament. Ined, after Uganda passed the “Kill the gays bill” – as was dubbed lolly – 2014, s reputatn on the ternatnal arena suffered.

ATTACKS ON LGBT+ UGANDANS SEEN RISG AFTER MISTER PROPOS ATH FOR GAY SEX

Our sovereign cred ratg also took a h due to the passg of the anti-gay law. While the efforts of LGBTQI mpaigners across the globe ma highly unlikely for Uganda to sign to law another “Kill the gays bill”, the fight for LGBTQI rights the untry and the rt of Ai is far om over. The fear of retaliatn om the ternatnal muny may stop Uganda and other Ain untri om attemptg to officially crimalise homosexualy, but will not make beg gay socially acceptable on the ntent.

Today, homosexualy is simply not accepted by the majory of Ain cizens.

Ultimately, will not matter how many urt s are won, or ernments prsured to cease anti-gay legislatn, or Ain lears backed by wtern money and tn elected wh the expectatn they will challenge public perceptns of homosexualy.

ANTI-GAY ‘THERAPY’ OFFERED AT UGANDA HEALTH CENTR RUN BY AID-FUND GROUPS

Most Ains are refg to accept homosexualy not so much bee of their Christian beliefs, but bee they perceive as a “Wtern value” beg forcefully phed upon their societi by malignant and vasive outsi forc. Wh our youthful populatn, so many young, knowledgeable Ugandans, who do not rry strong anti-gay sentiments, and even support LGBTQI rights, are jog the electoral roll every electn cycle.

Two years after our legal victory agast the “Kill the gays bill”, the Ugandan electorate had reward me for my efforts by turfg me out of parliament at the 2016 general electn. Among those rejected at the polls this year was the MP whose anti-gay private members bill brought this issue back to parliament. Another was our untry’s opposn lear, Bob We, who began his polil reer 2014 sgg pop songs about burng homosexuals.

Will Uganda pass another law crimalisg homosexualy the future?