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

Contents:

• GAY UGANDAN ASYLUM SEEKERS ' DANGER IF SENT HOME'
• GAY UGANDAN ASYLUM SEEKERS ' DANGER IF SENT HOME'
• LGBT: UGANDAN REFUGE WAL SPEAK OUT ON ANTI-GAY BILL
• THE LGBT REFUGE WHO ARE SEEKG ASYLUM IN THE WORLD’S MOST NOTORLY ANTI-GAY COUNTRY
• UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL: LIFE PRISON FOR SAYG YOU'RE GAY
• UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
• GAYS AND LBIANS SEEKG ASYLUM IN U.S. MAY FD A HARD ROAD
• NETHERLANDS UNVERS WORK HELPG UGANDAN ASYLUM SEEKERS FAKE BEG GAY

GAY UGANDAN ASYLUM SEEKERS ' DANGER IF SENT HOME'

Image source, GodeyImage ptn, Godey, pictured here at a prott the UK, says he watched a iend shot ad for beg gaySame-sex liaisons are illegal Uganda. People nvicted of homosexual acts n be sent to jail for the rt of their liv.

Some gay Ugandans survive by stayg unr the radar and live a shadowy half-life, prentg a straight face to the world. Bee Godey is both gay and Ugandan, he says he was expelled om school, rejected by his fay and sacked om his job. Bee Yudaya is both gay and Ugandan, she says she nnot ntact her fay and is beg sought by police.

Bee Rodney is both gay and Ugandan, he says he was forced to live on the streets and ed to rry poison his pocket se he need to kill himself before gettg arrted, Godey and Yudaya are now the UK and have applied for asylum.

GAY UGANDAN ASYLUM SEEKERS ' DANGER IF SENT HOME'

Image source, RodneyImage ptn, Rodney uld not believe how different attus to homosexualy were London pared to KampalaRodney, who is now 23, was reported to his school bee he was seen cuddlg a boy. You uld go to a club and all the gay people would be there.

"Ai and homosexualy lawsLaws outlawg same-sex relatns exist 31 out of 54 Ain untri, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) sex n be punishable by ath northern Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia and Mrania. People nvicted of homosexualy n be sent to jail for the rt of their liv.

However, Angola, Mozambique and the Seychell have all scrapped anti-homosexualy laws recent chapla at Rodney's llege put him touch wh the Cizen's Advice Bure, which told him about the asylum procs. "Image ptn, Godey says he saw his iend shot for beg gayIn 2002, after beg disvered a same-sex act, 18-year-old Godey went on the n wh a iend. I am so sred, the police are lookg for me and I've already mted the gay sex, " he said.

LGBT: UGANDAN REFUGE WAL SPEAK OUT ON ANTI-GAY BILL

He was unpopular wh the thori, he says, not jt bee he was gay, but bee he'd spoken out agast the print, Yoweri Meveni.

Godey said the screeng and terviews volved the procs ma him anx bee he felt his qutners did not believe he was gay. She was not openly gay back home but she did have a girliend, who is still fay recently found out she is a lbian. You are wh people spreadg homosexualy around.

'"Yudaya said the Home Office, although accepted she was gay, was not nvced she would be danger if she had to go back to Uganda. "Leila Zah, executive director of the UK Lbian and Gay Immigratn Group, said that refuge were often disbelieved by officials who then asked appropriate and meang qutns. A former Catholic mister who believ the current penal law is "limed" and wants same-sex acts to be punishable by ath, he has scribed [heterosexual] child rape as "preferable to homosexualy" claims "homosexualy is not natural to Ugandans" and a "massive recment by gay people" took place schools, promotg a "falsehood that people are born like that".

THE LGBT REFUGE WHO ARE SEEKG ASYLUM IN THE WORLD’S MOST NOTORLY ANTI-GAY COUNTRY

This article problematis protectn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) refuge ntexts of state-ndoned persecutn agast this group.

Based on ethnographic evince om Kampala, Uganda, we draw attentn to the homogenisg tennci of centralised protectn systems ci the global south, which are primarily centred on natnaly-based muni. 1 Wh the untri, there are differenc not only the provisn of effective stutnal protectn agast LGBTI-based persecutn, but also the willgns and abily to provi asylum to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) persons.

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

2 However, spe the close nnectn between the crimalisatn of LGBTI persons and the opportuni afford to them as asylum seekers, the experienc of LGBTI refuge ntexts of state-ndoned persecutn rema this article, we e the term LGBTI as an umbrella for dividuals of non-heterosexual orientatns (lbian, gay, bi-sexual) and non-nformg genr inti (trans or tersex).

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

In Sectn 5, we highlight the homogenisg tennci of centralised protectn systems, often based on natnaly-based muni, and we exame how macro soc-polil forc end up placg LGBTI refuge outsi the parameters of stutnal refugee protectn. The Ugandan Anti-Homosexualy Bill (AHB), first troduced to the Ugandan parliament 2009 and eventually stck down by the nstutnal urt 2014, ed ternatnal ntroversy and “set new precents and stutnalised new forms of global ernmentaly relatn to LGBTI rights. ”37 It nnot be assumed, however, that havg a supportive muny is achievable for all refuge, or that members of different muni have a homogeno experience of what belongg to a muny means.

Mwikiza shows how for LGBTI refuge volved this study, “beg regnisably homosexual … is often amed by heteronormative assumptns of wantg to be a woman or of beg not a boy but lookg like a girl, of beg not a man and therefore ls than a man but never actually beg a woman. 46Agast this realy, a sgular homogeno exile muny ntu to be the protectn ial of stutns.

And then they wanted also to kill sayg that she's (Krava) the one keepg the homosexual, she's protectg homosexual people, promotg homosexual the mp. And also they reported to the police, tellg them that there is homosexuals the mp.

GAYS AND LBIANS SEEKG ASYLUM IN U.S. MAY FD A HARD ROAD

The behavr of beg lbian and gay is not allowed our relign reason why we remove them om all Islamic affairs. Many of the hazards, which affect relatns wh the host populatn and Ugandan thori, are related to the (il)legaly of homosexualy Uganda and hostile cultural beliefs towards LGBTI persons and affect LGBTI Ugandan’s as well. The illegaly of homosexualy and the polics of LGBTI inty prevents LGBTI refuge om obtag refugee stat bee their narrative of persecutn due to genr inty and/or sexual orientatn is renred obsolete by Ugandan law.

The equency wh which refugee stat is nied for LGBTI asylum seekers is le wh past rearch which has found that homophobia stctured to Uganda’s existg and proposed legislatn is fluencg cisns ma by the refugee eligibily mtee.

” Turng to Grdr – a social workg app for gay, bisexual, trans, and queer people – to fd potential ctomers, rponnts face limed secury, as illtrated by Mamadou’s trmatic acunt. 67Followg the Anti-Homosexualy Act (AHA), which beme law 2014, ernmental threats were realised.

NETHERLANDS UNVERS WORK HELPG UGANDAN ASYLUM SEEKERS FAKE BEG GAY

Although the AHA was eventually stck down by the Constutnal Court, polil homophobia remas ccial shapg LGBTI teractns wh humanarian anisatns. Many LGBTI refuge state that when they attempt to accs existg servic, oftentim they experience homophobia, stigma, discrimatn, and margalisatn.