One gay man's adventur Uganda | Xtra Magaze

Contents:

• KAMPALA
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS KAMPALA
• ONE GAY MAN’S ADVENTUR UGANDA
• XTRA REPORTS OM UGANDA: FDG KAMPALA’S GAY BAR
• INSI A GAY BAR IN UGANDA, WHERE THE GOVERNMENT TRIED TO OUTLAW HOMOSEXUALY
• GAY DATG KAMPALA
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA
• GAY LIFE UGANDA - PICTUR
• GAY PRI UGANDA
• GAY BASHG IN KAMPALA - KAMPALA FOM
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

KAMPALA

Competive pric - Gay-owned bs - Support for LGBTQ+ NGOsmost bookedcheaptmisterb&b munyWe block hotel search for this statn, where homosexualy is punishable by the ath penalty, whether is enforced or not.

The laws don’t mentn homosexualy as such, but sodomy — eher dog, tryg to do or tryg to fd — is crimalized and remas heavily penalized, sometim up to seven years prison. Some relig and polil fanatics have champned stutg a life sentence for openly practicg homosexualy, yet no one has been charged or prosecuted for beg “gay” per se.

It is acknowledged that there are same-sex enunters happeng the wispread boardg schools, but seems that ’s only when one adds the words “gay” or “homosexual” that is nsired somethg outsi of the natural.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS KAMPALA

There are some — often married straight upl — who talk of champng gay , but the few gay men I met seemed rigned to the lack of gay rights csas, ntent to live Victorian existenc, closeted but wh a clever air over others, on a private joke. But this is the foreigners’ pot-of-view — lol homosexuals rema pletely whout rights, spe the fact that gay anizatns claim to have more 160 different members Kampala.

That said many gay men livg Uganda avoid trouble by g a woman as a “beard” both to avoid awkward qutns om Ugandan iends and any possible vlently homophobic enunters, which word of mouth threatens is a real occurrence (though I certaly didn’t wns any durg my vis). But for six hours on a Sunday night that fly by all too fast, the venue, wh s grass thatched roof and flashg fluorcent dis floor lights, be a haven for Uganda's gay muny who meet here to drk, dance and more. Last December the Ugandan parliament passed an anti-gay bill that stipulated repeat homosexuals should be jailed for life, outlawed the promotn of homosexualy and required people to nounce gays.

ONE GAY MAN’S ADVENTUR UGANDA

MPs are attemptg to retroduce the measur parliament, and unr a standg lonial-era Penal Co, gay Ugandans n still be jailed for "rnal knowledge agast the orr of nature". Gay and bisexual men were 92% Ugandan; 37% had unprotected receptive anal sex the last six months, 27% were paid for sex, 18% paid for sex, 11% had history of urethral discharge.

Followg the passage of the Anti-Homosexualy Act Febary, Simon says he worked overtime to help LGBTQ people whose liv were dispted by the anti-gay fervor surroundg the bill. As Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern explaed at the time, unr the legislatn, “gay people faced life imprisonment for havg gay sex and seven years prison for ‘attemptg to m homosexualy’ or ‘promotg’ homosexualy. In the imagatn of many Ugandans, homosexuals are outsi predators, swoopg wh gifts and money to rec their children to a strange, chosen liftyle that go agast their beliefs.

Negative msag about homosexualy are only strengthened by relig lears, policians, and journalists, many of whom prented the Anti-Homosexualy Act as a stand agast what they see as “moral nce. I happen to be straight, ( nsir myself to be que fortable wh my sexualy), however, bee of my voice/body language (which uld be preceived as "feme") there have been many ossns on which people have assumed that I am a gay man. I myself am a strong supporter of gay rights, and feel nflicted about flg this stereotype by feedg my fear, but I am somewhat ncerned for my safety after readg about the anti-gay bill.

XTRA REPORTS OM UGANDA: FDG KAMPALA’S GAY BAR

” Acrdg to the New York Tim, “The law was not as tough as an ial bill, troduced 2010 and later whdrawn, that would have imposed the ath sentence some s and would have required cizens to report acts of homosexualy wh 24 hours.

INSI A GAY BAR IN UGANDA, WHERE THE GOVERNMENT TRIED TO OUTLAW HOMOSEXUALY

” When I ask Kasha, who’s orrg whiskey and who owns this bar—Uganda’s only gay bar—if she isn’t worried about somebody g here and hurtg or arrtg anybody, she shak her head. That long-extant law didn’t go far enough for the supporters of the Anti-Homosexualy Bill of 2009, monly referred to the Wtern media as the “Kill the Gays Bill” bee upped the penalty for same-sex sex “aggravated” circumstanc (wh a mor, wh HIV-posivy, wh equency) to a ath sentence.

Once was disvered that s proponents enjoy the love and support of Amerin evangelils, like the proment group of ngrsmen known as the Fellowship or the Fay, the headl flowed so hard and fast that Uganda beme the world’s most publicized anti-gay place. Though got her kicked out of schools, Kasha has never spent a day the closet, and has for years been g out, swgg, the papers, on the rad, rponse to the print sayg ’99 that more gays should go to jail or to the mister of ethics sayg ’07 that Ugandan gays should jt leave. “If you’re sane and you look at that bill, n’t really pass, ” the unnameable one says of Kill the Gays, which was troduced by one member of Parliament, David Bahati, and endorsed by few.

GAY DATG KAMPALA

He knows that if he’d e out as a kid, not only would he have been lled nam, but he also would’ve been expelled so all the other parents wouldn’t take their kids out of his school; when he me out as a universy stunt 2006, he lost all his iends and had to get all new, all gay on.

He’s got a sr near his eye om havg a bottle broken across his face—a sort of mirror image of my old boss New Orleans, who lost his right eye after beg beaten when he left a gay bar. The Icebreakers office that Dennis and I are chattg is a safe space, but that’s an unpublicized, unmarked secret, guard pecially om the Pentestals we n hear ttifyg through their church service next door; some of the untry’s loust anti-gay voic belong to prits who’ve ma themselv famo on the issue. Members of the Fellowship eventually disavowed his gay-killg efforts, but not before they pumped lns to youth programs where he uld fluence the hearts and mds of the next generatn of Ugandan Christians.

The publisher of Rollg Stone (no relatn to the Amerin one) says gays wouldn’t be such a threat if they didn’t rec schools and erce children to havg sex wh them by givg them slick cellphon. But “bee of [pro-gay] support om the ternatnal muny, ” and the Wtern media enzy rponse to the bill, “Ains feel gays are too powerful and want to take the law to their own hands.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA

I had to feel him out, of urse, when I hired him for this assignment, and when I asked him how he felt about all this anti-gay hullabaloo, he said, after nsirg for a moment, that seemed a b wild and unnecsary. By the time we leave Dennis’ place, he’s progrsed to rampant cursy, askg me a lot of qutns about whether a gay uple has to choose which one is gog to be the du, and if so how the uple go about cidg that.

He explas that Uganda’s not supposed to be like Ameri, where everybody lov homosexuals—that’s not te, I terpt him—where homosexual sex isn’t agast the law—only sce 2003, I have to pot out—where homosexuals n do whatever they want, like get married—also not te, I say. Ined, Human Rights Watch senr Ai rearcher Maria Burt pots out that though ’s obvly hard to get accurate numbers (and Uganda’s populatn is a tenth of ours), “there were probably more LGBT people killed the US” for beg gay 2010 than the zero that lol gay rights groups report were killed Uganda. ) Though the Anti-Homosexualy Bill is the one that gets by far the most foreign media play, is not, Burt says when we meet at a Kampala fé, “the only prsg human rights issue Uganda.

” In fact, the urts have upheld some of gay Ugandans’ basic civil rights, orrg Muhame’s tabloid to stop outg them and lg favor of a transgenred man who sued police for raidg his hoe and moltg one of his iends.

GAY LIFE UGANDA - PICTUR

“Given the lack of enforcement of so many laws Uganda, ’s very hard to image that [the Anti-Homosexualy Bill] would be implemented, if passed, and a gay person would be executed, ” Burt says. Surely none of the 150 fely drsed people assembled for service this cement-block room on the Makerere Universy mp uld be a poop eater; he’s jt reeratg his msage to gays around the world.

Between this guy, and Bahati, and the aforementned ethics mister who suggted all gay Ugandans emigrate, ’s no wonr the US prs got all worked up that the were the kds of iends the Fellowship cultivat Uganda.

GAY PRI UGANDA

Nohels, the attentn given to the subject the popular prs and a quick ter search speak to the existence of gay and bisexual men Uganda and suggt that same sex behavr may occur to a greater extent than is generally regnized. The aims were to scribe the mographic characteristics of gay and bisexual men Kampala, gge awarens and level of sexual risk behavr, foster their cln HIV/AIDS preventn and re program planng, and field tt survey methods that may serve as a mol for epimlogil rearch and HIV surveillance among MSM sub-Saharan Ai. For clary and nsistency, this report we refer to the target populatn of our study and to rults for the bed participants of our survey as “gay and bisexual men”.

The bias are quantified by the “homophily” of each variable, that is, the propensy of persons to rec others siar to themselv, and by dividuals’ relative work siz (Heckathorn 1997). Our formative phase goals were therefore to ga a basic unrstandg of the diverse works of the populatn terms of mographic characteristics, asss the willgns of gay and bisexual men to participate the survey, intify ial seeds to start recment chas, rec gay and bisexual Ugandans to be traed as terviewers, and to ci on practil issu such as the e of centiv, where to nduct terviews, and to field tt the qutnnaire. We gaed ial ntact through webs targetg gay and bisexual men Uganda and we also ntacted a lol member of the clergy whose name appeared the popular media nnectn wh providg unselg servic to gay and bisexual men.

GAY BASHG IN KAMPALA - KAMPALA FOM

Time-space samplg is a method that entails mappg the venu where gay and bisexual men ngregate and samplg random time perds for recment at the venu (Abdul-Quadar et al. Key rmants dited they preferred RDS for several reasons: that gay and bisexual men would be better at knowg who are other gay and bisexual men, reachg men who we would not be able to reach at venu, advotg for better participatn, and bee the RDS method better prerved the nfintialy of the few venu Kampala where they felt formative phase also succeed intifyg seeds basic mographic groups and hirg gay and bisexual terviewers for the study. We chose the variabl based on scriptns of gay and bisexual works and the perceptn voiced by HIV preventn rmants that gay and bisexual men Kampala may be an ele, highly ted group that has been fluenced by “Wtern” valu.

In actualy, many of our lleagu HIV preventn were skeptil that gay and bisexual men existed many numbers Uganda, that they were not native to Uganda, or were mostly boys and young men who were paid for sex by foreigners. After pletg the study qutnnaire, the ial seeds and subsequent participants were given three recment upons and stcted to give them to other men they knew personally and knew to be gay or bisexual.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA

Men wishg to participate were screened for eligibily by age (18 years and above), beg gay or bisexual ( rponse to the qutn: “Would you scribe yourself as gay, bisexual, straight, or heterosexual? ”––the latter two were exclud), and beg posssn of a upon ditg they were reced by another participant wh whom they were may be impossible to elimate every person who was “fakg” beg gay or bisexual, we took the followg steps.

Send, we refully stcted the ial seeds and each subsequent participant to only rec men they personally knew to be gay or bisexual and explaed why this was important. Third, our terview team clud gay and bisexual men whose experience we believe provid valuable (admtedly tangible) sight as to who was or was not gay or bisexual, cludg ggg the potential participants’ knowledge of and fort wh terms for gay and bisexual men and their sexual practic mon age by gay and bisexual Ugandans.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

While the study did not llect nam or other personal intifyg rmatn, the newspaper article scribed the study’s distctive recment upon, th potentially intifyg the rrier as a gay or bisexual man. E., the percent of gay and bisexual men reportg this risk out of all gay and bisexual men) feedback durg the formative phase, we cid not to nduct HIV ttg nor did we ask participants their HIV serostat this study (although we did ask if they had tted for HIV).