NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Drsed rabow wigs and masks, gays and lbians Kenya on Monday joed a global effort to prott agast an anti-homosexualy bill passed by Uganda's parliament that is now the hands of the untry's print.
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GAYS KENYA PROTT AGAST UGANDAN BILL
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Drsed rabow wigs and masks, gays and lbians Kenya on Monday joed a global effort to prott agast an anti-homosexualy bill passed by Uganda's parliament that is now the hands of the untry's print.
Activists are tryg to prsure Ugandan Print Yoweri Meveni to not signg the bill, which creas prison tim for homosexual acts. A lear of the prott Kenya, Eric Gari, executive director of Kenya's Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn, said the Ugandan legislatn has major repercsns on human rights ndns across East Ai. Some gays and lbians Uganda have already fled to a Kenyan refugee mp, he Ugandan-related protts e as gay activists foc on many issu around the globe: A new law Nigeria last month creased penalti agast gays; Rsia has faced qutns the n-up to the Olympics about gay discrimatn; and an Amerin universy football player on Sunday announced he is gay, settg up the possibily of the first openly gay pro football activists around the world were holdg street march Monday " solidary" wh Uganda's homosexuals, said Pepe Julian Onziema, a gay lear Uganda who said at least 15 homosexuals have fled Uganda sce the bill was passed out of fear for their and lbians face severe discrimatn many Ain Amerin Jewish World Service, a U.
But some bills have stayed wh Meveni for months — even years — apparently bee the "law is silent" about what happens when the print is slow to make a cisn, said Ugandan lawyer Ladisls Rwakafuuzi, who has reprented gay Ugandans the bill is returned to lawmakers, Rwakafuuzi said, they uld still pass to law wh a two-thirds majory vote. Meveni has opposed the bill as harsh, but gay activists say Meveni's other recent thoughts on the matter — that gays are often "abnormal" people who should be "rehabilated" — fuel discrimatn agast gays a untry where homosexualy is already bill is popular wh lawmakers and Christian clerics who say is need to ter Wtern homosexuals om "recg" Kenya, monstrators held signs and chanted slogans outsi Uganda's High Commissn on Monday hop their msage would reach Meveni.