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

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• UGANDAN TABLOID PUBLISH NEW 'GAY LIST'
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA
• UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
• UGANDAN PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY LAW THAT INCLUS DEATH PENALTY AS A PUNISHMENT
• A NEW ANTI-GAY LAW UGANDA LLS FOR LIFE PRISON FOR THOSE WHO ARE NVICTED
• UGANDA PASS STRICT ANTI-GAY BILL THAT IMPOS DEATH PENALTY FOR SOME

UGANDAN TABLOID PUBLISH NEW 'GAY LIST'

Interview wh persecuted gay UgandanSTORY HIGHLIGHTSTabloid nam 10 people s says are gay, and lists their addrsPeople were attacked the last time the paper did thisIts edor urg rears not to attack people but report them to policeBll imposg harsh penalti for homosexualy beg nsired parliament Kampala, Uganda (CNN) -- The edor of a tabloid Uganda who argu that homosexualy is more dangero than smokg, has published a list of 10 gay and lbian people the Ain natn, urgg rears to report them to the police.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA

Last time listed 100 of what lled the untry's top gays and lbians, wh photos and addrs alongsi a yellow banner readg "hang them. Edor Gil Muhame, 22, has disuraged rears to physilly attack people on the list, but he claims gay people are gog to schools and "recg" schoolchildren. 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.

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

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.

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

Six months later, and after wispread ternatnal prsure, the Ugandan Constutnal Court led the Anti-Homosexualy Act valid on procral grounds.

A NEW ANTI-GAY LAW UGANDA LLS FOR LIFE PRISON FOR THOSE WHO ARE NVICTED

However, even though the law self fell, the spir lived on, as the bill had enjoyed wi-spread support Uganda, where 93 percent of Ugandans were opposed to homosexualy. For Christian fundamentalists, Uganda—an impoverished untry reverg om years of rptn and vlence—provid a blank nvas to project their missnary zeal and strong homophobia. ” They found willg servants opportunistic policians and Ugandan relig lears who argued that homosexualy was “un-Ain” and a Wtern export.

UGANDA PASS STRICT ANTI-GAY BILL THAT IMPOS DEATH PENALTY FOR SOME

Sylvia Tamale observ, “ is not homosexualy that is un-Ain but the laws that crimalized such relatns…what is alien to the ntent is legalized homophobia, exported to Ai by the imperialists where there had been difference to and even tolerance of same-sex relatns. Over seventy untri still crimalize homosexualy, and Uganda is among thirty-two untri Sub-Saharan Ai that still crimalize homosexualy. On the heels of Wasswa’s murr, the recent threat of retroducg the “Kill the Gays” bill om member of Parliament (MP) Jam Buturo and other MPs, and the arrts of over one hundred spected homosexuals at an LGBTQ iendly bar, tapulted Uganda back to the ternatnal spotlight, signalg an latn of vlence and reprsn toward the Ugandan LGBTQ muny.

Stemmg homophobia Uganda will be difficult; is fully entrenched Ugandan society and polics and is an easy way of unifyg an otherwise ethnilly and polilly divid populatn. This is not about the Wt exportg homosexualy to Ai or a “gay agenda”; is stead about right-wg Christian evangelils om the Wt g homophobia as a tool to tablish a foothold the Ain ntent, and lol Ugandan policians and “men of the cloth” profg om this narrative. ” The recent very public disagreement between the US envoy to Zambia and the Zambian ernment over the sentencg of two Zambian gay men to fifteen years prison is a se pot.