Days after Uganda's parliament orred an vtigatn last month to the alleged promotn of homosexualy schools, a vio appeared onle intifyg Kampala rint Eric Ndawula as gay.
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UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW: HOW RTRICTED ARE LGBTQ RIGHTS AI?
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KAMPALA, March 3 (Rters) - Days after Uganda's parliament orred an vtigatn last month to the alleged promotn of homosexualy schools, a vio appeared onle intifyg Kampala rint Eric Ndawula as gay.
The landlord then issued him a notice of evictn, sayg the buildg uld not acmodate a gay person. "I am now a threat to the children around bee I am gog to rec them to homosexualy, " Ndawula told Rters experience is one example of a wave of discrimatn and vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr dividuals sce parliament announced s vtigatn, activists backlash has worsened the LGBT muny's already prer stat Uganda, where same-sex relatns are punishable by up to life prison. "Abigaba said the vtigatn was need bee children were beg troduced to homosexualy schools through recment and readg materials.
Already, the vrlic language employed by officials to jtify the vtigatn - as well as recent anti-gay ments by Print Yoweri Meveni and the head of Uganda's Anglin Church - have had far-reachg nsequenc, activists said. On Tuday, MP Asuman Basalirwa was given leave of parliament to prepare a new anti-LGBT law that he told Rters would crimalise a range of activi, cludg "aidg, abettg, promotg, recment (of people) to" provisns would make siar to an anti-gay law Uganda passed 2013. Uganda was not always the extremely homophobic untry has transformed to.
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It first gaed ternatnal notoriety 2009 when David Bahati, a member of the Ugandan parliament whose views were heavily fluenced by Amerin evangelils, troduced the now famo “Kill the Gays” bill. Unr the guise of “protectg the tradnal fay, ” the bill advoted for the ath penalty for “aggravated homosexualy” and the imprisonment of anyone “promotg” or failg to report homosexualy.
Supporters of the bill equated homosexualy wh pedophilia, suatg that gay adults groomed vulnerable children to homosexualy. Although the ath penalty was dropped om the 2009 versn, the bill was still signed to law 2014 as the Anti-Homosexualy Act.