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.
KAMPALA GAY MUNY HOLD SECRET BASH
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.
CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
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.
UGANDAN LAWMAKERS PASS NEW VERSN OF TOUGH ANTI-GAY BILL
For on Sundays, when many Ugandans spend time wh their fai, most gay people have nowhere to go. 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.