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Contents:

• SCULPTOR LEILAH BABIRYE: ‘IN UGANDA YOU N BE JAILED FOR TALKG ABOUT GAY ISSU’
• ‘I HAVE TO LIE LOW. I’M TOTALLY ON EDGE’: UGANDA’S CLUB SCENE FEARS ANTI-GAY LAW
• UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• UGANDAN PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY LAW THAT INCLUS DEATH PENALTY AS A PUNISHMENT
• UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL: LIFE PRISON FOR SAYG YOU'RE GAY
• TOP UGANDAN GAY ACTIVIST RENOUNC HOMOSEXUALY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)

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

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! 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!

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

'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. 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. 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.

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

'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. 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.

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.

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

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. 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. 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.

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

”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.

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

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. ” She is nfint that the hatred fed to her society is a distractn “for a failg enomy and the general jtic we are forced to see every day – but let not fet that is lonialists who brought homophobia wh them”. Homosexual acts were openly accepted the pre-lonial era east Ai, but ma illegal wh the troductn of the Ugandan penal , wh “rnal knowledge agast the orr of nature” still ed to arrt homosexuals today.

KAMPALA, Uganda — Members of Uganda’s LGBTQ muny are shock and fear beg arrted after Parliament passed a measure that would make a crime to intify as gay and impose tough sentenc that clu the ath penalty certa s, an activist said “Anti-Homosexualy Bill, 2023” was passed wh a near-unanimo majory by lawmakers  the east Ain untry, where anti-gay sentiment ns ep.

TOP UGANDAN GAY ACTIVIST RENOUNC HOMOSEXUALY

Ronald Kabuubi / APThe legislatn will next be sent to Print Yoweri Meveni, who has repeatedly nounced homosexualy, to be signed to Mugisha, one of a few Ugandans who live openly as gay, told Rters he was sred the measure would trigger “mass arrts of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer persons and mob vlence toward LGBTQ muni. There’s gog to be a lot of trma and s of mental health that will lead to a lot of suici, ” he relatns were already illegal Uganda, but supporters of the new law say is need to punish a broar array of LGBTQ activi, which they say threaten tradnal valu the nservative and relig East Ain measure clus steep sentenc that clu ath for “aggravated homosexualy” and life prison for same-sex relatns.

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

Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab". "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May. The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law.

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

Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy.

Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn.