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GAY REFUGEE MA TO FEEL ‘UNWANTED AND UNWELE’ THE UK: ‘WE DON’T HAVE ANYWHERE ELSE TO GO’
When Mary fled Uganda bee of homophobic persecutn, she uld never have imaged the hostily she would face as a refugee the UK.
Her own mother had threatened to turn her to the police for beg gay after her she found texts she had sent to her girliend. “She didn’t want to be disgraced by a gay child, ” Mary, whose name has been changed to protect her inty, tells PkNews. “Beg gay is totally forbidn.
If had e out to everyone that I was gay, would have been a big shame to my mother. Enomic Freedom Fighters supporters monstrate outsi the Uganda High Commissn durg a picket their agast the untry’s anti-homosexualy bill. Policians have repeatedly tried to strengthen s anti-gay laws to stamp out homosexualy the untry – March, the parliament voted for a bill that would make simply beg LGBTQ+ a crime punishable by imprisonment.