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A Ugandan official says the abhorrent legislatn is need bee of "recment by gay people."

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SCULPTOR LEILAH BABIRYE: ‘IN UGANDA YOU N BE JAILED FOR TALKG ABOUT GAY ISSU’

The legislatn mak an offence to simply intify as gay, and oblig relativ to alert police. * ugandan gay artists *

Ugandan paper publish a list of the untry's 'Top 200 homosexuals' the day after the untry brgs harsh anti-gay lawRed Pepper tabloid published nam and some pictur of 'homosexuals'List of 'top 200' clud some people who had not e out as gayList, prted unr headle 'EXPOSED!

‘I HAVE TO LIE LOW. I’M TOTALLY ON EDGE’: UGANDA’S CLUB SCENE FEARS ANTI-GAY LAW

Red Pepper publish nam unr headle of 'Exposed' day after print signs anti-gay bill * ugandan gay artists *

One, David Kato, was eventually killed early 2011News the day after tough new law on homosexualy was signedThe US says is reviewg s donatns to Uganda as a rult Published: 10:23 BST, 25 Febary 2014 | Updated: 17:22 BST, 25 Febary 2014 A Ugandan newspaper has published a list of the untry's 'top 200' homosexuals a day after the print enacted harsh anti-gay Red Pepper, a Ugandan tabloid, ran the nam of 200 people claims are homosexuals, cludg several who have not prevly e out as gay, unr the headle 'EXPOSED!

UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

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'The list clus proment Ugandan gay activists such as Pepe Julian Onziema, as well as a popular Ugandan hip-hop star and a Catholic down for vio The Red Pepper, a tabloid Uganda, has prted the nam of 200 people acc of beg homosexuals on s ont page The list, which appears unr the headle EXPOSED!, featur nam of people not prevly intified as gay The news on the day after Ugandan print Yoweri Meveni signed a bill to law which punish 'aggravated homosexualy' wh life prison.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

A proment Ugandan gay activist, David Kato, was killed after the Rollg Stone newspaper - which has no affiliatn wh the Amerin magaze - lled for him to be 2011 the then-edor said he had 'no regrets' over the article, as was exposg wrongdog. The news jt a day after the untry's print signed harsh new anti-gay legislatn Yterday print Yoweri Maveni lled homosexualy 'disgtg' as he signed the bill to law A Ugandan judge later nmned the outg of homosexuals a untry where gays face severe discrimatn, sayg amounted to an vasn of privacy.

'The bill origally proposed the ath penalty for 'aggravated homosexualy, ' fed as repeated gay sex between nsentg adults and acts volvg a mor, a disabled person or where one partner is fected wh HIV. The law also lls for first-time offenrs to be sentenced to 14 years signg the bill, Meveni said the measure is need bee the Wt is promotg homosexualy Ai, rejectg ternatnal cricism as terference Uganda's ternal affairs.

UGANDAN PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY LAW THAT INCLUS DEATH PENALTY AS A PUNISHMENT

In 2010 a now-funct Ugandan paper Rollg Stone - which has no affiliatn wh the Us magaze - published a siar expose David Kato (right) was beaten to ath after another article the same paper (left) lled for him to be hanged Ugandan police spokman Patrick Onyango said on Tuday that no homosexuals have been arrted sce Meveni signed the bill but that at least two had been taken to ctody sce lawmakers passed the bill last December. 'Some Ugandan lawyers and activists have said they will challenge the law urt as unnstutnal and impossible to Ugandan law — which me jt over a month after Nigeria passed a siar measure agast gays — has been nmned around the world, although is wily popular among Ugandans. ” Like many gay people stgglg to survive a untry that has ed Covid-19 as an exce to clamp down on human rights, Ssenyonga is ed to arrts and before the panmic Uganda was labelled the worst place to be gay after s parliament proposed the ath penalty for some homosexual acts.

UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL: LIFE PRISON FOR SAYG YOU'RE GAY

But memori are not as easily first sign of danger, he says, was seeg green boots through a gap unr the people were still bed at the shelter, which has given Ugandan gay people a home durg lockdown.

TOP UGANDAN GAY ACTIVIST RENOUNC HOMOSEXUALY

Babirye was born 1985 and brought up Kampala, the pal of Uganda, a natn where gay sex rri a life sentence, public attus are overwhelmgly hostile, and LGBTQ+ activism is illegal: “You n be prison if you’re even ught wh a person talkg about gay issu. She had been outed Uganda’s vilently homophobic prs, and when she told her tutors on her masters urse at Makerere Universy that she wanted to explore her sexualy her art, they refed to supervise her.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

It awas the print’s signature to bee 2023 anti-homosexualy bill crimalis those touchg another person “wh the tentn of mtg the act of homosexualy” and any person who intifi as “a lbian, gay, transgenr, a queer” wh up to 10 years prison.

NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)

Homosexual sex was already punishable by life imprisonment Uganda, but there was some leeway: “[If we were] drsed weirdly at a ftival, we uld be stopped by police but say, ‘I’m an artist, ’” he says. ”It is not jt the anisatns put place to protect the muny, such as Smug (Sexual Mori Uganda), that have halted their operatns after beg crimalised by the bill: the law would also make illegal for a landlord to rent an event space or a mic stud, or for someone to help put on an event or even DJ on the same bill if there was the mert klg that someone intifyg as a homosexual was performg or rerdg. The furore has bee acpanied by nspiracy theori, such as one perpetuated by mister for secury Gen Elly Tumwe claimg that an LGBTQ-affiliated terrorist group lled the Red Movement is attemptg to create anarchy all over the world by weaponisg homosexualy and has reached a pot where many artists are now beg forced to nsir their future Kampala.

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