Ugandan police arrted 44 people durg a party to celebrate the engagement of a gay uple held at an LGBT shelter Kampala late May, claimg that they had tervened over health and safety vlatns.…
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UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW: HOW RTRICTED ARE LGBTQ RIGHTS AI?
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. * lgbt schools in uganda *
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.
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"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. 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.