Uganda's LGBTQ muny is ' shock' over new measure, gay activist says

Contents:

• HOW SCHOOLS N PROTECT LEARNERS AGAST GAY GROUPS
• 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?

HOW SCHOOLS N PROTECT LEARNERS AGAST GAY GROUPS

The curriculum targetg sendary school stunts and their teachers, prais homosexualy and masturbatn as fulfillg sexual attribut among people who have nsented. About 100 schools have been duped to trag disguised homosexualy to their teachers and stunts, acrdg to Saturday Monor vtigatns. For stance, portrays homosexualy and masturbatn as fulfillg sexual attribut among people who have nsented and one way of ntrollg unwanted teenage pregnanci and early marriag.

If this lasts a long time, they might be homosexuals. People are homosexual not by choice but by birth. However, if a boy forc a boy to have sex wh him or a girl forc a girl to have sex wh her, this is not homosexual but sexual abe, ” reads part of the curriculum document.

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

Even our trags, we never had such ssns on homosexualy. A male stunt acced of “gayism” was beaten, terrogated and then expelled om his Mlim are among the shockg stori told to openDemocracy by victims of the homophobic, relig and lonial laws and attus that have seen generatns of LGBTIQ children driven out of schools East queer people Kenya and Uganda are fightg back. Last month, members of Kenya’s LGBTIQ muny took to the streets of Nairobi prott at the bet secretary for tn, Gee Magoha, sayg that gay and lbian stunts should be banned om boardg surprisgly, Magoha’s remarks (ma December) ced homophobic attacks onle and schools.

Its neighbour Uganda also retas Brish lonial-era attus to homosexualy.

Colonial-era lawsLast year, Uganda’s parliament passed a “sexual offenc” law entrenchg the prohibn of same-sex relatnships, while 2019 Kenya’s high urt upheld the untry’s existg anti-homosexualy legislatn. “Bee society has set up the narrative that people are queer bee [they] have been reced […] a lot of [LGBTIQ] anisatns are sred to look to matters that are affectg queer children, ” Imani Kimiri, a lawyer wh Kenya’s Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn (NGLHRC), told openDemocracy. Vlent homophobic attacks, expulsns and discrimatn agast LGBTIQ school stunts Kenya and Uganda are “monplace”, acrdg to victims and activists who spoke to Mashego, a member of the Queer Republic, said that bee many untri East and Southern Ai are former loni of Bra, Christiany is “a fol pot for drivg the whole system”, cludg culture Uganda and Kenya remas largely molled on s foundg by whe Christian missnari.

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

“I have to fight all the trma that was attached to what they thought I was, before I uld get to acceptg who I am, ” she Bagbo, a trans nonbary person Kenya, the homophobic culture at their school ma them associate beg gay wh beg “viant” and a “pervert”. They said they were “shown vios of ltle boys allegedly raped by gay men” to warn them off homosexualy.

Mahmood (not his real name), a gay man his early twenti, attend a proment Mlim school Uganda. He said the school’s nstutn listed the term “gayism” as an offence punishable by expulsn.

There was no equivalent offence for heterosexual relatnships, spe the school havg both male and female is famo for beg anti-gay, and policians ce homophobia to crease their populist appeal. ”In 2014, around the time that Uganda’s ‘Kill the Gays’ bill was makg headl around the world, homophobic bullyg tensified at Mahmood’s school.