Homosexualy is taboo almost all Ain untri and illegal most cludg Uganda, where rights groups say gay people have long risked jail. Fear of vlence, imprisonment and loss of jobs means few gays Ai e out.
Contents:
- INSI THE TY CHURCH WHERE MEMBERS OF UGANDA'S BELEAGUERED GAY MUNY HAVE FOUND SANCTUARY
- UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
- GAY PRI UGANDA
- KAMPALA GAY MUNY HOLD SECRET BASH
- CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
- UGANDAN LAWMAKERS PASS NEW VERSN OF TOUGH ANTI-GAY BILL
INSI THE TY CHURCH WHERE MEMBERS OF UGANDA'S BELEAGUERED GAY MUNY HAVE FOUND SANCTUARY
Sunday is a special day Uganda, the nservative east Ain untry that is threateng to put gay people behd bars for life. Church lears will pray for dive terventn agast the rpt lears, poverty and the potholed roads, and then fally ll doom upon the untry's homosexuals who are sng agast the Christian God and g Ain not at a ty church tucked away one of Kampala's suburbs.
Here, gay people meet voted challenge to mastream nomatns that have clared them outsts. "Here we are all about eedom, " Pepe Onziema, a gay rights activist tells me. We wele people whether gay or straight.
Their life pends on this Uganda, police raid hom and arrt those they spect to be gay. Homosexualy is an offence unr the penal .
UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
The print, Yoweri Meveni, ref to pass a bill that seeks to strengthen the punishments for homosexualy to clu life imprisonment, but isn unr prsure to do so. Conservative Christian church, unr the spic of the Uganda Jot Christian Council, refe to accept homosexuals spe of more gay-iendly approach om parent church abroad. The anti-gay furnace is fanned by Amerin evangelil church that have ma their missn to ee Ai of homosexualy, sayg is alien to Ain gay Ugandan church seeks to spread an alternative gospel of love and acceptance for all.
GAY PRI UGANDA
On this particular Sunday, is the memorial of David Kato, a gay rights activist who was murred 2011. When the church was started by Bishop Christopher Senyonjo (who has sce been thrown out of the Anglin Church for misterg to gay people), the gay muny Uganda attend votedly. But wh arrts and growg anti-gay sentiments, threats to their liv and arrts, fewer and fewer people e to the church.
"Jog a gay ngregatn Uganda is risky but Onziema says is necsary a society that greatly valu muny. For on Sundays, when many Ugandans spend time wh their fai, most gay people have nowhere to go.
KAMPALA GAY MUNY HOLD SECRET BASH
In the quiet worship of Uganda's gay muny, there is a still hope and the kd of urage you n only mter after you have seen all and there is nothg left to fear. Sunday is also the day gay people Uganda st off their masks to chat about the latt fashn, rs and celebri. "You thought we were gog to pray that God stops the anti-homosexualy bill, " Mugisha, the head of Sexual Mori Uganda, asks me wh lghter and mischief his voice.
"Mugisha is for a moment ee om his job, his life, fightg for the basic human rights of gay people. KAMPALA, Uganda — Members of Uganda’s LGBTQ muny are shock and fear beg arrted after Parliament passed a measure that would make a crime to intify as gay and impose tough sentenc that clu the ath penalty certa s, an activist said “Anti-Homosexualy Bill, 2023” was passed wh a near-unanimo majory by lawmakers the east Ain untry, where anti-gay sentiment ns ep. Ronald Kabuubi / APThe legislatn will next be sent to Print Yoweri Meveni, who has repeatedly nounced homosexualy, to be signed to Mugisha, one of a few Ugandans who live openly as gay, told Rters he was sred the measure would trigger “mass arrts of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer persons and mob vlence toward LGBTQ muni.
There’s gog to be a lot of trma and s of mental health that will lead to a lot of suici, ” he relatns were already illegal Uganda, but supporters of the new law say is need to punish a broar array of LGBTQ activi, which they say threaten tradnal valu the nservative and relig East Ain measure clus steep sentenc that clu ath for “aggravated homosexualy” and life prison for same-sex relatns. Aggravated homosexualy volv same-sex relatns wh people unr age 18 or when the perpetrator is HIV-posive, among other tegori, acrdg to the legislatn.
CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
The anizatn’s office was raid December before Parliament passed the anti-homosexualy bill. A lbian woman’s weddg drs hung on a wall after her marriage a secret ceremony December, a day after the anti-homosexualy bill was passed by Parliament.
UGANDAN LAWMAKERS PASS NEW VERSN OF TOUGH ANTI-GAY BILL
24 signed to law a bill imposg harsh sentenc on so-lled homosexual acts. Photographer Daniella Zalcman traveled to Uganda January to document lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights activists as they prepared for life unr the impendg law. Many went to neighborg Kenya; though also has antigay laws, police are far ls aggrsive about enforcg them.