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• UGANDA'S PARLIAMENT HAS PASSED ITS “KILL THE GAYS” LAW
• THE U.S. NNECTN TO UGANDA’S ‘KILL THE GAYS’ BILL
• UGANDA ANNOUNC ‘KILL THE GAYS’ LAW IMPOSG ATH PENALTY ON HOMOSEXUALS
• UGANDA JT MA HOMOSEXUALY PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. AMERIN EVANGELIL GROUPS PLAYED A ROLEPRINT JOE BIN—AND EVEN TED CZ—HAS NMNED THE UGANDAN LAW. THE LEGISLATN AFTER YEARS OF LOBBYG OM AMERIN CHRISTIAN GROUPS, SOME OF WHICH PREVLY SUPPORTED SUCH HARSH ANTI-LGBTQ MEASUR.BY CALEB ERMAMAY 30, 2023ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAG. SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAFTER MORE THAN A OF ANTI-LGBTQ LOBBYG OM AMERIN EVANGELIL GROUPS, UGANDA HAS FALLY ENACTED WHAT’S AMONG THE HARSHT ANTIGAY LAWS THE WORLD. ON MONDAY, YOWERI MEVENI, THE PRINT OF THE EAST AIN NATN, SIGNED THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY ACT 2023, A BILL THAT MAK HOMOSEXUALY PUNISHABLE BY LIFE IMPRISONMENT AND “AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY”—A VAGUE PHRASE THAT APPLI TO BOTH PREDATORS AND THOSE WHO E “MISREPRENTATN” OR “UNDUE FLUENCE” TO ENGAGE GAY SEX—PUNISHABLE BY ATH. EVEN ATTEMPTG “TO M THE OFFENSE OF HOMOSEXUALY” ULD LEAD TO A SEVEN-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE. MOREOVER, ANYONE FOUND GUILTY OF “PROMOTG” HOMOSEXUALY THE UNTRY ULD FACE UP TO 20 YEARS PRISON, WHILE SO-LLED “SERIAL OFFENRS” AND THOSE WHO TRANSM HIV/AIDS THROUGH GAY SEX ULD BE SUBJECT TO PAL PUNISHMENT.THE LAW HAS FACED WISPREAD NMNATN ABROAD. IN A MONDAY STATEMENT, JOE BIN NMNED AS “A TRAGIC VLATN” OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SAID THE WHE HOE WAS “NSIRG ADDNAL STEPS, CLUDG THE APPLITN OF SANCTNS AND RTRICTN OF ENTRY TO THE UNED STAT AGAST ANYONE VOLVED SER HUMAN RIGHTS AB OR RPTN.” (FOR HIS PART, MEVENI PREVLY PRAISED UGANDA’S PARLIAMENT MEMBERS FOR FYG “IMPERIALIST” PRSURE MPAIGNS AGAST THE LAW, WHICH IS ALSO BEG CHALLENGED URT BY -UNTRY ACTIVISTS.)ANTIGAY SENTIMENT UGANDA HAS CLIMBED RECENT YEARS DUE NO SMALL PART TO AMERIN EVANGELILS, WHO SPENT MORE THAN $20 LN FIGHTG LGBTQ RIGHTS THE UNTRY BETWEEN 2007–2020, ACRDG TO THE WASHGTON POST. STT LIVELY, AN AMERIN PASTOR, SPEARHEAD THIS EFFORT THE EARLY 2000S, PARTICIPATG A SERI OF POPULAR ANTIGAY LECTUR UGANDA AND SCRIBG HOMOSEXUALY AS A “DISEASE” PROPAGATED BY THE WT. SEVERAL YEARS LATER, UGANDA’S PARLIAMENT PROPOSED IAL LEGISLATN, KNOWN AS THE “KILL THE GAYS” BILL, THAT WAS SUPPORTED BY A NUMBER OF AMERIN CHRISTIAN GROUPS AND EVENTUALLY SIGNED TO LAW. WHILE THAT MEASURE ULTIMATELY BUCKLED UNR URT SCTY, S DRANIAN VISN HAS NOW BEEN REVIVED AND ETCHED TO LAW BY MEVENI’S PEN.IN A STRANGE TWIST, ONE OF THE LEADG EVANGELIL POLICIANS THE US HAS JOED THE WHE HOE, THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE, AND A RPORATE ALN NMNG THE LAW. “THIS UGANDA LAW IS HORRIFIC & WRONG,” TWEETED SENATOR TED CZ, A TEXAS REPUBLIN. “ANY LAW CRIMALIZG HOMOSEXUALY OR IMPOSG THE ATH PENALTY FOR ‘AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY’ IS GROTQUE & AN ABOMATN. ALL CIVILIZED NATNS SHOULD JO TOGETHER NMNG THIS HUMAN RIGHTS ABE. #LGBTQ.” IN HIS OWN UNTRY, CZ HAS NSISTENTLY ADVOTED AGAST THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF GAY AMERINS. AS RECENTLY AS LAST YEAR, HE LLED OBERGEFELL V. HODG, THE SUPREME COURT LG THAT LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NATNWI, “CLEARLY WRONG” AND AN ACT OF JUDICIAL OVERREACH. (THOSE REMARKS WERE D PARED TO HIS IAL REACTN TO THE 2015 CISN, WHICH HE SCRIBED AT THE TIME AS “THE VERY FN OF TYRANNY” AND “AMONG THE DARKT HOURS OF OUR NATN.”)ANA AMONG, UGANDA’S PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER, RPOND TO CRICISMS OF THE LAW BY STATG THAT MEVENI HAD “ANSWERED THE CRI OF OUR PEOPLE.” IN A SEPARATE STATEMENT, AMONG URGED THE “DUTY BEARERS UNR THE LAW TO EXECUTE THE MANDATE BTOWED UPON THEM THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY ACT.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMCAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLER“DOPEY AND CONSTUTNALLY DUB”: LEGAL EXPERTS BLAST JUDGE AILEEN CANNON’S LATT PRO-TMP RULGSBY BS LEVRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHCALEB ERMA
• THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT
• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• AIN ACTIVISTS TARGET INTEL EXECUTIVE FOR ALLEGEDLY PHG FOR THE “KILL THE GAYS” LAW
• UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN, EXPLAED
• CALIFORNIA LAWYER SEEKS TO PUT 'SHOOT THE GAYS' PROPOSAL ON 2016 BALLOT
• UGANDA PLANS BILL IMPOSG ATH PENALTY FOR GAY SEX
• NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)

UGANDA'S PARLIAMENT HAS PASSED ITS “KILL THE GAYS” LAW

The bill, which advot have nicknamed “Kill the Gays, ” matas the ath penalty for “aggravated homosexualy, ” which refers to any same-sex act which the “victim” is a mor, the “offenr” is livg wh HIV, the offenr is a parent or guardian, or if the “victim” is disabled.

Addnally, the bill punish the “promotn” of homosexualy wh a 20-year prison sentence, and would charge those who “knowgly allow their premis to be ed for acts of homosexualy” wh a seven-year jail sentence. However, a measure that prevly would have required people to “report” homosexual activy was amend to only apply when a child is volved; failure to report rri a jail sentence of five years or a fe of 10 ln Uganda shillgs, or roughly $2, 682 USD.

Although Meveri also requted that the revised bill clu provisns related to “rehabilatn of persons who have the past been engaged homosexualy but would like to live normal liv aga, ” the updated bill ntas no such language. Uganda is one of several Ain natns where is illegal to be queer; the natn enacted s Anti-Homosexualy Act 2014, which allowed for life imprisonment for some homosexual acts between nsentg adults, and dified the reprsn of LGBTQ Ugandans.

THE U.S. NNECTN TO UGANDA’S ‘KILL THE GAYS’ BILL

The latt bill, ially passed by parliament March, tak Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ polici much further, punishg LGBTQ advocy wh up to 20 years prison and proposg the ath penalty for “aggravated homosexualy” — homosexual acts volvg children or members of other at-risk groups, or volvg a person who is HIV posive. Uganda was already hostile to LGBTQ people, even before the 2014 Anti-Homosexualy Act; lonial fluence was baked to the penal , and a 2009 bill lloquially lled the “kill the gays” bill sparked ternatnal outrage for a provisn that would allow gay people to be hanged. The bill also required cizens to spy on their neighbors, iends, and fay members and report those they spected of beg LGBTQ or advotg for gay rights or face a three-year prison sentence, acrdg to a Human Rights Watch report at the time.

The 2023 bill also appli to trans and genr-nonnformg people, punishg wh up to 10 years prison anyone who “holds out as a lbian, gay, transgenr, a queer, or any other sexual or genr inty that is ntrary to the bary tegori of male and female.

In realy, the US particular has fluenced or supported anti-LGBTQ polici and attus Uganda, particularly via evangelil groups like the Fellowship Foundatn, which had a hand craftg the 2009 “kill the gays” bill, acrdg to a 2020 report om Open Democracy.

UGANDA ANNOUNC ‘KILL THE GAYS’ LAW IMPOSG ATH PENALTY ON HOMOSEXUALS

“The prodigal son parable has propped up the ex-gay movement Uganda, ensurg there are open arms to gay people who n speak about prevly beg that life of ‘s’ and nounce their gayns publicly, ” Okereke wrote. Wily seen as one of the most extreme forms of anti-homosexualy legislatn the world, a draft versn of the bill expands existg rtrictns and punishments for same-sex activy, crimaliz dog bs wh LGBT rights groups and lls for the applitn of the ath penalty certa s for gay sex rried out by “serial offenrs.

Relig groups have for years mpaigned parts of Ai, pecially untri like Uganda, and sown the seeds for even more hard-le measur passage of the Anti-Homosexualy Act by the Parliament of Uganda is eply ncerng. Earlier this month, Bundi’s Print Evariste Ndayishimiye advised his patrts to “curse those who dulge homosexualy bee God nnot bear ” and said the LGBTQ muny “mt be banished, treated as pariahs our untry. ” His remarks me around the same time that 24 people were charged by lol thori wh “homosexual practic” for attendg a semar anized by an HIV/AIDS chary Kenya, top policians reacted anger after the untry’s Supreme Court recently led agast a petn that sought to bar activists om registerg an LGBTQ rights anizatns.

Close to half that figure was spent nservative, predomantly Christian Uganda alone, where relig advot advote for gay “nversn therapy” and tout supposed succs stori of “ex-gay” anti-LBGTQ attus have long existed untri around the world, we are seeg untri like Uganda the sharp end of a broar right-wg culture war over genr rights and inti. Frank Mugisha, director of Sexual Mori Uganda, a leadg LGBTQ rights anizatn, ma the argument 2014 that polil cricism of the “gay agenda, of recg people to homosexualy” was not prevalent before 2009, after U.

UGANDA JT MA HOMOSEXUALY PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. AMERIN EVANGELIL GROUPS PLAYED A ROLEPRINT JOE BIN—AND EVEN TED CZ—HAS NMNED THE UGANDAN LAW. THE LEGISLATN AFTER YEARS OF LOBBYG OM AMERIN CHRISTIAN GROUPS, SOME OF WHICH PREVLY SUPPORTED SUCH HARSH ANTI-LGBTQ MEASUR.BY CALEB ERMAMAY 30, 2023ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAG. SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAFTER MORE THAN A OF ANTI-LGBTQ LOBBYG OM AMERIN EVANGELIL GROUPS, UGANDA HAS FALLY ENACTED WHAT’S AMONG THE HARSHT ANTIGAY LAWS THE WORLD. ON MONDAY, YOWERI MEVENI, THE PRINT OF THE EAST AIN NATN, SIGNED THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY ACT 2023, A BILL THAT MAK HOMOSEXUALY PUNISHABLE BY LIFE IMPRISONMENT AND “AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY”—A VAGUE PHRASE THAT APPLI TO BOTH PREDATORS AND THOSE WHO E “MISREPRENTATN” OR “UNDUE FLUENCE” TO ENGAGE GAY SEX—PUNISHABLE BY ATH. EVEN ATTEMPTG “TO M THE OFFENSE OF HOMOSEXUALY” ULD LEAD TO A SEVEN-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE. MOREOVER, ANYONE FOUND GUILTY OF “PROMOTG” HOMOSEXUALY THE UNTRY ULD FACE UP TO 20 YEARS PRISON, WHILE SO-LLED “SERIAL OFFENRS” AND THOSE WHO TRANSM HIV/AIDS THROUGH GAY SEX ULD BE SUBJECT TO PAL PUNISHMENT.THE LAW HAS FACED WISPREAD NMNATN ABROAD. IN A MONDAY STATEMENT, JOE BIN NMNED AS “A TRAGIC VLATN” OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SAID THE WHE HOE WAS “NSIRG ADDNAL STEPS, CLUDG THE APPLITN OF SANCTNS AND RTRICTN OF ENTRY TO THE UNED STAT AGAST ANYONE VOLVED SER HUMAN RIGHTS AB OR RPTN.” (FOR HIS PART, MEVENI PREVLY PRAISED UGANDA’S PARLIAMENT MEMBERS FOR FYG “IMPERIALIST” PRSURE MPAIGNS AGAST THE LAW, WHICH IS ALSO BEG CHALLENGED URT BY -UNTRY ACTIVISTS.)ANTIGAY SENTIMENT UGANDA HAS CLIMBED RECENT YEARS DUE NO SMALL PART TO AMERIN EVANGELILS, WHO SPENT MORE THAN $20 LN FIGHTG LGBTQ RIGHTS THE UNTRY BETWEEN 2007–2020, ACRDG TO THE WASHGTON POST. STT LIVELY, AN AMERIN PASTOR, SPEARHEAD THIS EFFORT THE EARLY 2000S, PARTICIPATG A SERI OF POPULAR ANTIGAY LECTUR UGANDA AND SCRIBG HOMOSEXUALY AS A “DISEASE” PROPAGATED BY THE WT. SEVERAL YEARS LATER, UGANDA’S PARLIAMENT PROPOSED IAL LEGISLATN, KNOWN AS THE “KILL THE GAYS” BILL, THAT WAS SUPPORTED BY A NUMBER OF AMERIN CHRISTIAN GROUPS AND EVENTUALLY SIGNED TO LAW. WHILE THAT MEASURE ULTIMATELY BUCKLED UNR URT SCTY, S DRANIAN VISN HAS NOW BEEN REVIVED AND ETCHED TO LAW BY MEVENI’S PEN.IN A STRANGE TWIST, ONE OF THE LEADG EVANGELIL POLICIANS THE US HAS JOED THE WHE HOE, THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE, AND A RPORATE ALN NMNG THE LAW. “THIS UGANDA LAW IS HORRIFIC & WRONG,” TWEETED SENATOR TED CZ, A TEXAS REPUBLIN. “ANY LAW CRIMALIZG HOMOSEXUALY OR IMPOSG THE ATH PENALTY FOR ‘AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY’ IS GROTQUE & AN ABOMATN. ALL CIVILIZED NATNS SHOULD JO TOGETHER NMNG THIS HUMAN RIGHTS ABE. #LGBTQ.” IN HIS OWN UNTRY, CZ HAS NSISTENTLY ADVOTED AGAST THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF GAY AMERINS. AS RECENTLY AS LAST YEAR, HE LLED OBERGEFELL V. HODG, THE SUPREME COURT LG THAT LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NATNWI, “CLEARLY WRONG” AND AN ACT OF JUDICIAL OVERREACH. (THOSE REMARKS WERE D PARED TO HIS IAL REACTN TO THE 2015 CISN, WHICH HE SCRIBED AT THE TIME AS “THE VERY FN OF TYRANNY” AND “AMONG THE DARKT HOURS OF OUR NATN.”)ANA AMONG, UGANDA’S PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER, RPOND TO CRICISMS OF THE LAW BY STATG THAT MEVENI HAD “ANSWERED THE CRI OF OUR PEOPLE.” IN A SEPARATE STATEMENT, AMONG URGED THE “DUTY BEARERS UNR THE LAW TO EXECUTE THE MANDATE BTOWED UPON THEM THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY ACT.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMCAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLER“DOPEY AND CONSTUTNALLY DUB”: LEGAL EXPERTS BLAST JUDGE AILEEN CANNON’S LATT PRO-TMP RULGSBY BS LEVRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHCALEB ERMA

Lively is a notor homophobe who advanced the theory the 1990s that Adolf Hler and other leadg Nazi lleagu were gay, and that their sexual orientatn somehow fed to the atroci of the, an addrs to Uganda’s parliament, suggted homosexualy was a Wtern-imported “disease” that uld be spread to the untry’s children. “This restg of homosexualy as ak to pedophilia, alongsi the wispread e of siar language, is meant to legimize the rponse and crackdown by ernments and stutns, ” noted Caleb Okereke, a Nigerian journalist. For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsUganda has announced plans to impose the ath penalty on bill, lloquially known as “Kill the Gays” Uganda, was nullified five years ago on a technily, but the ernment said on Thursday plans to rurrect wh ernment said the legislatn would curb a rise “unnatural sex” the east Ain natn.

“Homosexualy is not natural to Ugandans, but there has been a massive recment by gay people schools, and pecially among the youth, where they are promotg the falsehood that people are born like that, ” the untry’s ethics and tegry mister, Simon Lokodo, told the Thomson Rters Foundatn. The worst statns for LGBT+ holidaymakersShow all 10Mr Lokodo said the bill, which has the support of the untry’s print, Yoweri Meveni, will be retroduced parliament the g said was expected to be voted on before the end of the mister was optimistic the bill would pass wh the necsary two-thirds of members prent, he said, as the ernment had lobbied legislators ahead of s ’s nstutnal urt overturned the law – formerly known as the “Kill the Gays” bill bee clus the ath penalty – on a technily faced wispread ternatnal nmnatn when the prev bill was signed off by Mr Meveni Uned Stat rced aid, imposed visa rtrictns and ncelled ary exercis.

THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT

On Monday, Yoweri Meveni, the print of the East Ain natn, signed the Anti-Homosexualy Act 2023, a bill that mak homosexualy punishable by life imprisonment and “aggravated homosexualy”—a vague phrase that appli to both predators and those who e “misreprentatn” or “undue fluence” to engage gay sex—punishable by ath. Moreover, anyone found guilty of “promotg” homosexualy the untry uld face up to 20 years prison, while so-lled “serial offenrs” and those who transm HIV/AIDS through gay sex uld be subject to pal law has faced wispread nmnatn abroad.

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan Print Yoweri Meveni signed one of the world’s tought anti-LGBTQ laws, cludg the ath penalty for “aggravated homosexualy, ” drawg Wtern nmnatn and riskg sanctns om aid relatns were already illegal Uganda, as more than 30 other Ain untri, but the new law go stipulat pal punishment for “serial offenrs” agast the law and transmissn of a termal illns like HIV/AIDS through gay sex. Existg Ugandan law lls for a maximum 10-year sentence for tentnally transmtg HIV and do not apply when the person who ntracted the fectn was aware of their sexual partner’s HIV ntrast, the new law mak no distctn between tentnal and untentnal transmissn and ntas no exceptn based on awarens of HIV amend versn of the bill, adopted earlier this month after Meveni returned to parliament, stipulated that merely intifyg as LGBTQ is not a crime and revised a measure that obliged people to report homosexual activy to only require reportg when a child is volved. A ls rtrictive 2014 anti-LGBTQ law was stck down by a Ugandan urt on procral grounds, after Wtern ernments had ially spend some aid, imposed visa rtrictns and curtailed secury 2009, a bill dubbed “kill the gays” for ially proposg executg homosexuals was troduced after a nference Kampala drew reprentativ om the Uned Stat cludg proment anti-gay evangelil Stt well as relig mpaigng, Ai’s anti-LGBTQ attus also have their roots the lonial era, cludg an anti-sodomy sectn of Bra’s penal .

Over the urse of lbian, gay, or bisexual people's lifetim, one five will experience hate crim, and one four transgenr people will as dividuals at the tersectn of homophobia, transphobia, and racism, face worse statistics. Help to end this discrimatn by supportg legislative bans on the gay/trans panic steps you n, and should, take are as follows:Contact legislators and ernors stat currently tryg to ban the gay/trans panic fense. Be sure to reach out to feral legislators as an advote stat where there is currently no proposed gay/trans panic ban your own policians know that equaly unr the law should apply to the victims of hate crim as well.

AIN ACTIVISTS TARGET INTEL EXECUTIVE FOR ALLEGEDLY PHG FOR THE “KILL THE GAYS” LAW

Whether Bnei will keep s word remas to be seen, but the small untry on the island of Borneo near Malaysia is not the only natn where gay men and women are beg sentence for the crime of beg gay some untri is rooted the terpretatn of Sharia law, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn’s (ILGA) report on state-sponsored, which means “path, ” is not so much a legal system as a gui for helpg people fd life’s answers through Islam, as people unrstand acrdg to tradnal and early terpretatns. On a more posive note, the are the untri where same sex marriage is officially intify the untri where beg gay is still legally punishable by ath, 24/7 Tempo reviewed var reports on human rights and homophobia by non-prof anizatns providg help and legal advice to mori, cludg members of the LGBTQ muny across the world.

The groups om untri cludg Uganda, where Print Yoweri Meveni signed the East Ain natn’s notor “Kill the Gays” law May, are llg on multatnal puter chip rporatn Intel to brg a high-rankg executive to acunt for his participatn formulatg and promotg anti-LGBTQ+ polici Ai through the Arizona-based group Fay Watch Internatnal.

UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN, EXPLAED

In a petn, the human rights anizatns acce Greg Slater, Intel’s vice-print of global regulatory affairs, of beg “actively rponsible for exportg, fancg, and spreadg hate, homophobia” across the ntent through the group, which he -found wh his wife, Sharon Slater. Last sprg, followg the passage of the Anti-Homosexualy Act through Uganda’s unimeral Parliament, Fay Watch sponsored a nference the untry that drew lawmakers om more than a dozen Ain natns, all mted to passg or troducg pyt legislatn to bat “the s of homosexualy. Followg the Uganda nference March, attene Peter Kaluma, a member of parliament Kenya, troduced a Kill the Gays pyt bill the former Brish lony that would crimalize homosexualy the untry, ban Kenyans om intifyg as LGBTQ+, and grant cizens the power to arrt anyone they spect of beg gay.

On s webse, Fay Watch Internatnal nied volvement the Uganda bill: “Dpe media reports to the ntrary, Fay Watch has never advoted for or lobbied favor of Uganda’s anti-homosexual bill, nor were we ever volved promotg Uganda’s prev anti-homosexual bill – fact, we opposed them both.

" Other crimalized activi the new law clu the "nspiracy to m homosexualy, " as well as "aidg and abettg homosexualy, " which is vaguely fed as offerg your property or other "moveable assets for purpos of homosexualy. While the anti-gay bill was beg stalled durg the legislatn procs, the Ugandan Speaker of Parliament claimed that Ugandans were growg impatient, and were "mandg" the new anti-homosexualy bill to be signed.

CALIFORNIA LAWYER SEEKS TO PUT 'SHOOT THE GAYS' PROPOSAL ON 2016 BALLOT

In October 2012, celebratn of the anniversary of the new law, the Ugandan weekly tabloid paper Rollg Stone (which has no relatn to the US magaze) published a "leaked" list of the nam, addrs, and pictur of the Top 100 "homos" Uganda. Three months later, one of the people outed by the tabloid — a gay activist named David Kato, whom the New York Tim has lled "the most outspoken gay rights activist Uganda" — was murred, beaten to ath by a hammer.

" Even though she didn't mentn Uganda by name, the pot of her speech was ma evint om the first le: "It is a vlatn of human rights when ernments clare illegal to be gay, or allow those who harm gay people to go unpunished. Many people thk that David Bahati, the Ugandan legislator who troduced the bill, was fluenced by several proment Amerin evangelil Christians, cludg some ex-gays — people who claim to have been "healed" of gayns — and an anti-gay mister named Stt Lively. High urt judge Vcent Moke-Kibua claimed that the prtg of the "Top Homos" article was an "vasn of the right to privacy, " and orred the paper to stop publishg the nam and pictur of people alleged to be gay.

UGANDA PLANS BILL IMPOSG ATH PENALTY FOR GAY SEX

Draft legislatn Ghana would make intifyg as gay or even an ally to the LGBTQ muny a send-gree felony punishable by five years prison — wh advotg for LGBTQ rights punishable by up to 10 nduct is already a crime the Wt Ain untry, wh vlators facg a three-year sentence, but the new Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill seeks to crimalize intifyg as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, pansexual, nonbary, queer, an ally “or any other sexual or genr inty that is ntrary to the bary tegori of male and female, ” acrdg to a versn of the bill leaked onle. ” Gross cency, which acrdg to the measure clus cross-drsg and public displays of same-sex affectn, would be nsired a mismeanor wh a jail sentence of between six months and a Bediako of Rightify Ghana, a lol LGBTQ group, lled the measure “a homophobe’s dream law.

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

”The proposed legislatn requir rints to report homosexual activy or advocy to the thori, but also lls for “flexible sentencg” for an dividual who “openly rents and requts accs to approved medil help, ” which Rightify Ghana and Wamari both terpreted is a reference to nversn therapy, the medilly discreded practice of tryg to change a person’s sexual orientatn or genr inty. -based World Congrs of Fai, which is signated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and is part of the Internatnal Organizatn for the Congrs for Fai-affiliated pastor Stt Lively was acced a 2012 feral lawsu of helpg draft Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill, which lled for the ath penalty for homosexuals who were “repeat offenrs. “We have got to make certa thgs clear as Ains — we’ve got to make people, at least, rpect that as for Ains, we say a man is not gog to put his sexual an to a man’s back, ” Ocquaye told rad statn Class FM, warng of a “global gay lobby” spendg lns to “transport their anomalo behavur globally.

” A 2013 Pew Rearch Center survey found 96 percent of Ghanaians believed homosexualy should not be tolerated by society — the third hight rate the world after Jordan (97 percent) and Nigeria (98 percent) and on par wh Senegal.