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• 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 FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHCALEB ERMA
• ‘WE WILL HUNT YOU’: UGANDANS FLEE AHEAD OF HARSH ANTI-GAY LAW
• UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL: LIFE PRISON FOR SAYG YOU'RE GAY
• HELPG OUR LGBTQ+ BROTHERS AND SISTERS UGANDANSCE 2014, RWF HAS BEEN PROVIDG SUPPORT TO LGBTQ+ PEOPLE UGANDA BY FUNDG SHELTER, SAFE PASSAGE, AND THE MEDIL NEEDS OF PEOPLE FLEEG DANGER. WE ALSO FUND EFFORTS TO PROMOTE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE UGANDAN LGBTQ+ MUNY. THERE WAS AN LATN OF VLENCE TOWARD LGBTQ+ PEOPLE UGANDA 2022. IN MAY, THE PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA PASSED SEXUAL OFFENS BILL 2019 WHICH FURTHER CRIMALIZ SAME-SEX ACTS AND RELATNSHIPS. PARLIAMENTARY BATE AND PUBLIC DISCSN ON THE BILL IGNED HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC FERVOR LEADG TO ATTACKS ON THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. MANY LGBTQ+ UGANDANS EXPERIENCED VLATNS OF THEIR MOST BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS. AB CLU BEG OUTED OR BLACKMAILED BY NEIGHBORS OR FAY MEMBERS LEADG TO LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT AND HOG FOR MANY. HARASSMENT AND ABE BY THORI IS ALSO A REAL THREAT - 95 GAY MEN WERE ARRTED, JAILED FOR 4-5 DAYS RELEASED AND THEN REARRTED. OTHERS HAVE BEEN SUBJECT TO ARBRARY ARRTS AND TENTNS WHICH ARE OFTEN REPORTED THE NEWS AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA, PECIALLY IF THEY WERE ARRTED ON “SPICN OF HOMOSEXUALY”. WHILE RCERATED LGBTQ+ PEOPLE HAVE EXPERIENCED TORTURE, PHYSIL AND SEXUAL ABE CLUDG FORCED ANAL EXAMATNS, BEATGS, STRIP-SEARCH, AND ABE BY OTHER MAT. IN JULY, A WELL-KNOWN GAY ACTIVIST WAS MURRED. IN AUGT, THE PRINT MEVENI CLED TO SIGN THE BILL TO LAW AS WAS NOT POLILLY ADVANTAGEO. THE CYCLE OF VLENCE HAS NOT STOPPED.2023 ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILLON MARCH 9, 2023, ASUMAN BASALIRWA, A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, TRODUCED THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL PARLIAMENT. THE BILL IS A REVISED AND MUCH STRONGER VERSN OF THE 2014 ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY ACT, WHICH RERCED EXISTG PRISON SENTENC FOR SAME-SEX NDUCT AND OUTLAWED THE “PROMOTN OF HOMOSEXUALY,” BUT WAS STCK DOWN BY A URT ON PROCRAL GROUNDS. THE BILL, IF PASSED WOULD CRIMALIZE ANY PERSON 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,” WH A PUNISHMENT OF UP TO TEN YEARS PRISON. ON MARCH 21, 2023 THE PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA APPROVED A BILL WH HARSHER PROVISNS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS. THE BILL CLUS THE CHARG OF "AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY" AND "ATTEMPTED HOMOSEXUALY" WH SENTENC OF UP TO 10 YEARS PRISON. ADDNAL SENTENC RELATED TO THE BILL CLU LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR GROOMG OR TRAFFICKG CHILDREN FOR PURPOS OF ENGAGG THEM HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVI AND EVEN THE ATH PENALTY FOR "AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY", THAT IS SEXUAL ABE OF A CHILD, A PERSON WH DISABILY OR VULNERABLE PEOPLE, OR S WHERE A VICTIM OF HOMOSEXUAL ASSLT IS FECTED WH A LIFE-LONG ILLNS. FAY MEMBERS N BE CRIMALIZED FOR NOT TURNG RELATIVE THE BILL ALSO REQUIR ANY ONE TO REPORT ANY KNOWN LGBTQ+ PERSON TO THE THORI AND N PUNISH ANY PROPERTY OWNERS/LANDLORDS WHO PROVI HOG TO LGBTQ+ PERSONS IF THEIR PROPERTY IS ED AS A "BROTHEL" FOR HOMOSEXUAL ACTS OR ANY OTHER SEXUAL MORI RIGHTS' ACTIVI.ON 21 MARCH 2023, PARLIAMENT PASSED THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL. THE DRAFT LAW PRCRIBED THE ATH PENALTY FOR "AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALS" (FN WHICH CLUS THOSE WHO ARE NVICTED OF HOMOSEXUALY MORE THAN ONCE AND THOSE WHO ENGAGE HOMOSEXUAL SEX WH A PERSON OLR THAN 75 OR WH A DISABLED PERSON) AND UP TO 20 YEARS PRISON FOR "PROMOTERS" OF HOMOSEXUALY.ON 21 APRIL, 2023 PRINT MEVENI SENT THE BILL BACK TO PARLIAMENT, WHICH PASSED AGA ON MAY 2, 2023 WH MOR AMENDMENTS BY A VOTE OF 348 TO 1. ON 29 MAY 2023, AFTER PARLIAMENT WATERED DOWN PRINT MEVENI SIGHED TO LAW. IT IS AMONG HE HARSHT ANTI-LGBTQ LAWS THE WORLD. HOMOSEXUAL ACTS ARE ALREADY ILLEGAL UGANDA BUT NOW ANYONE NVICTED FAC LIFE IMPRISONMENT.ON MAY 29, 2023, PRINT MEVENI SIGNED THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL TO LAW ON 29 MAY.
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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 FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHCALEB ERMA

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. In the vio, 26-year-old Elisha Misa, who is reported to have been prevly imprisoned on filement charg, speaks for a ltle over eight mut tailg how he was lured as a mor to actg gay porn by Sexual Mori Uganda (SMUG)—a nonernmental anizatn (NGO) based Kampala workg to support and fend LGBTQ+ persons the untry. Mbajjwe Nimiro Wilson, 24, a gay man om Uganda, a safe hoe Otieno for The New York TimIn a spartan safehoe wh flimsy curtas and no furnure northwt of the Kenyan pal, Nairobi, people om neighborg Uganda clung to the few valuabl they uld snatch while fleeg harsh new legislatn targetg them back home.

A lbian uple clenched the one smartphone that held photos om happier days, gog on dat and dancg began leavg after Uganda’s Parliament passed a sweepg anti-gay bill late March that threatens punishment as severe as ath for some perceived offens, and lls for life prison for anyone engagg same-sex relatns.

In terviews, more than a dozen gay Ugandans who had fled to Kenya scribed how their iends, fay and neighbors turned agast them over the past year, as renewed anti-gay sentiment swept over the nservative Parliament, lawmakers promoted the basels allegatn that there was a plot to promote homosexualy schools.

‘WE WILL HUNT YOU’: UGANDANS FLEE AHEAD OF HARSH ANTI-GAY LAW

In the streets, Mlims marched agast them, and Christian church, clerics urged ngregants to rema watchful about efforts to lure their children to Augt, the thori took their most drastic actn yet when they closed Sexual Mori Uganda, the untry’s leadg gay rights Parliament adopted the bill March, dozens of L.

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

” It would also “jeopardize” Uganda’s progrs toward endg AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, the statement Ugandan bill is already spirg others across the ntent, cludg Kenya, where a recent Supreme Court cisn had allowed gay rights groups to register legally — a lg that has drawn vol cricism om the print and others.

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. Homosexual acts are already illegal Uganda but this bill troduc many new crimal well as makg merely intifyg as gay illegal for the first time, iends, fay and members of the muny would have a duty to report dividuals same-sex relatnships to the was passed wh wispread support Uganda's parliament on Tuday eveng.

HELPG OUR LGBTQ+ BROTHERS AND SISTERS UGANDANSCE 2014, RWF HAS BEEN PROVIDG SUPPORT TO LGBTQ+ PEOPLE UGANDA BY FUNDG SHELTER, SAFE PASSAGE, AND THE MEDIL NEEDS OF PEOPLE FLEEG DANGER. WE ALSO FUND EFFORTS TO PROMOTE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE UGANDAN LGBTQ+ MUNY. THERE WAS AN LATN OF VLENCE TOWARD LGBTQ+ PEOPLE UGANDA 2022. IN MAY, THE PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA PASSED SEXUAL OFFENS BILL 2019 WHICH FURTHER CRIMALIZ SAME-SEX ACTS AND RELATNSHIPS. PARLIAMENTARY BATE AND PUBLIC DISCSN ON THE BILL IGNED HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC FERVOR LEADG TO ATTACKS ON THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. MANY LGBTQ+ UGANDANS EXPERIENCED VLATNS OF THEIR MOST BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS. AB CLU BEG OUTED OR BLACKMAILED BY NEIGHBORS OR FAY MEMBERS LEADG TO LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT AND HOG FOR MANY. HARASSMENT AND ABE BY THORI IS ALSO A REAL THREAT - 95 GAY MEN WERE ARRTED, JAILED FOR 4-5 DAYS RELEASED AND THEN REARRTED. OTHERS HAVE BEEN SUBJECT TO ARBRARY ARRTS AND TENTNS WHICH ARE OFTEN REPORTED THE NEWS AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA, PECIALLY IF THEY WERE ARRTED ON “SPICN OF HOMOSEXUALY”. WHILE RCERATED LGBTQ+ PEOPLE HAVE EXPERIENCED TORTURE, PHYSIL AND SEXUAL ABE CLUDG FORCED ANAL EXAMATNS, BEATGS, STRIP-SEARCH, AND ABE BY OTHER MAT. IN JULY, A WELL-KNOWN GAY ACTIVIST WAS MURRED. IN AUGT, THE PRINT MEVENI CLED TO SIGN THE BILL TO LAW AS WAS NOT POLILLY ADVANTAGEO. THE CYCLE OF VLENCE HAS NOT STOPPED.2023 ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILLON MARCH 9, 2023, ASUMAN BASALIRWA, A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, TRODUCED THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL PARLIAMENT. THE BILL IS A REVISED AND MUCH STRONGER VERSN OF THE 2014 ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY ACT, WHICH RERCED EXISTG PRISON SENTENC FOR SAME-SEX NDUCT AND OUTLAWED THE “PROMOTN OF HOMOSEXUALY,” BUT WAS STCK DOWN BY A URT ON PROCRAL GROUNDS. THE BILL, IF PASSED WOULD CRIMALIZE ANY PERSON 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,” WH A PUNISHMENT OF UP TO TEN YEARS PRISON. ON MARCH 21, 2023 THE PARLIAMENT OF UGANDA APPROVED A BILL WH HARSHER PROVISNS AGAST HOMOSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS. THE BILL CLUS THE CHARG OF "AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY" AND "ATTEMPTED HOMOSEXUALY" WH SENTENC OF UP TO 10 YEARS PRISON. ADDNAL SENTENC RELATED TO THE BILL CLU LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR GROOMG OR TRAFFICKG CHILDREN FOR PURPOS OF ENGAGG THEM HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVI AND EVEN THE ATH PENALTY FOR "AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALY", THAT IS SEXUAL ABE OF A CHILD, A PERSON WH DISABILY OR VULNERABLE PEOPLE, OR S WHERE A VICTIM OF HOMOSEXUAL ASSLT IS FECTED WH A LIFE-LONG ILLNS. FAY MEMBERS N BE CRIMALIZED FOR NOT TURNG RELATIVE THE BILL ALSO REQUIR ANY ONE TO REPORT ANY KNOWN LGBTQ+ PERSON TO THE THORI AND N PUNISH ANY PROPERTY OWNERS/LANDLORDS WHO PROVI HOG TO LGBTQ+ PERSONS IF THEIR PROPERTY IS ED AS A "BROTHEL" FOR HOMOSEXUAL ACTS OR ANY OTHER SEXUAL MORI RIGHTS' ACTIVI.ON 21 MARCH 2023, PARLIAMENT PASSED THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL. THE DRAFT LAW PRCRIBED THE ATH PENALTY FOR "AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALS" (FN WHICH CLUS THOSE WHO ARE NVICTED OF HOMOSEXUALY MORE THAN ONCE AND THOSE WHO ENGAGE HOMOSEXUAL SEX WH A PERSON OLR THAN 75 OR WH A DISABLED PERSON) AND UP TO 20 YEARS PRISON FOR "PROMOTERS" OF HOMOSEXUALY.ON 21 APRIL, 2023 PRINT MEVENI SENT THE BILL BACK TO PARLIAMENT, WHICH PASSED AGA ON MAY 2, 2023 WH MOR AMENDMENTS BY A VOTE OF 348 TO 1. ON 29 MAY 2023, AFTER PARLIAMENT WATERED DOWN PRINT MEVENI SIGHED TO LAW. IT IS AMONG HE HARSHT ANTI-LGBTQ LAWS THE WORLD. HOMOSEXUAL ACTS ARE ALREADY ILLEGAL UGANDA BUT NOW ANYONE NVICTED FAC LIFE IMPRISONMENT.ON MAY 29, 2023, PRINT MEVENI SIGNED THE ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL TO LAW ON 29 MAY.

The fal versn has yet to be officially published but elements discsed parliament clu: A person who is nvicted of groomg or traffickg children for purpos of engagg them homosexual activi fac life prisonIndividuals or stutns which support or fund LGBT rights' activi or anisatns, or publish, broadst and distribute pro-gay media material and lerature, also face prosecutn and imprisonmentMedia groups, journalists and publishers face prosecutn and imprisonment for publishg, broadstg, distributn of any ntent that advot for gay rights or "promot homosexualy"Death penalty for what is scribed as "aggravated homosexualy", that is sexual abe of a child, a person wh disabily or vulnerable people, or s where a victim of homosexual asslt is fected wh a life-long illnsProperty owners also face risk of beg jailed if their premis are ed as a "brothel" for homosexual acts or any other sexual mori rights' activiA small group of Ugandan MPs on a mtee sctisg the bill disagreed wh s premise.

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

They argue the offenc seeks to crimalise are already vered the untry's Penal Co 2014, Uganda's nstutnal urt nullified another act which had toughened laws agast the LGBT clud makg illegal to promote and fund LGBT groups and activi, as well as reeratg that homosexual acts should be punished by life imprisonment, and was wily nmned by Wtern urt led that the legislatn be revoked bee had been passed by parliament whout the required quom.

Addnal sentenc related to the bill clu life imprisonment for groomg or traffickg children for purpos of engagg them homosexual activi and even the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy", that is sexual abe of a child, a person wh disabily or vulnerable people, or s where a victim of homosexual asslt is fected wh a life-long illns.

Fay members n be crimalized for not turng relative the bill also requir any one to report any known LGBTQ+ person to the thori and n punish any property owners/landlords who provi hog to LGBTQ+ persons if their property is ed as a "brothel" for homosexual acts or any other sexual mori rights' 21 March 2023, Parliament passed the Anti-Homosexualy Bill.

IS KENYA ABOUT TO FOLLOW UGANDA WH STRICT ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN?

The draft law prcribed the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexuals" (fn which clus those who are nvicted of homosexualy more than once and those who engage homosexual sex wh a person olr than 75 or wh a disabled person) and up to 20 years prison for "promoters" of 21 April, 2023 Print Meveni sent the bill back to Parliament, which passed aga on May 2, 2023 wh mor amendments by a vote of 348 to 1. Homosexual acts are already illegal Uganda but now anyone nvicted fac life May 29, 2023, Print Meveni signed the Anti-Homosexualy Bill to law on 29 the Act:The maximum penalty for homosexual acts is life imprisonment, while the maximum penalty for attempted homosexual acts is imprisonment for 10 years. Serial offenrs (meang those who were nvicted of homosexualy multiple tim) are also fed as "aggravated homosexuals" maximum penalty for mors nvicted of homosexualy is imprisonment for 3 maximum penalty for knowgly rentg premis to people who wish to engage homosexual acts on such a premise is imprisonment for 10 maximum penalty for promotg homosexualy is imprisonment for 20 maximum penalty for sharg homosexual pornography wh a mor is imprisonment for 20 maximum penalty for recment or transportatn of a child to facilate homosexual sex is imprisonment for maximum penalty for "purportg to ntract a same-sex marriage", as well as for knowgly attendg a purpoted same-sex marriage ceremony is imprisonment for 10 maximum penalty for failg to report a wnsed homosexual act is imprisonment for 5 years.

The NGO Bure has emphasized that the ernment should “prehensively crimalize” activi that promote homosexualy the untry and lay down strgent requirements for registratn of civil society Organisatns, a leaked report reveals, and that “Individuals lked to anizatns volved promotg LGBTQ+ activi should be profiled and mechanisms put place to prevent them om formg other Organisatns for siar purpose. As the anti-homosexualy bill has movg through the parliament the past few months, members of the LGBTQ+ muny were beg dismissed om their jobs, rejected by their fai, and ma homels by their is sendg funds to Uganda to provi for emergency shelter, food, medil re, travel support, and legal NOW: Help LGBTQ+ UgandaN’s achieve hope, safety, and digny.

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The laws were kept after Anti-Homosexualy Act, which prcrib up to 20 years prison for "promotn of homosexualy" and the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy", me to force 2023, makg Uganda the first and only Christian-majory untry to punish some typ of nsensual same-sex acts wh the ath penalty.

They also are said to have rulted the troductn of the Anti-Homosexual bill which Lively allegedly helped first-of-s-kd lawsu alleg that Lively's actns, llaboratn wh some Ugandan ernment officials and Ugandan relig lears, are rponsible for privg LGBT Ugandans of their fundamental human rights based solely on their inty, which the lawsu argu meets the fn of persecutn unr ternatnal law and is a crime agast has lled the claims “ridiculo” and stated, "I've never done anythg Uganda except preach the Gospel and speak my opn about the homosexual issue.

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Anyone who tri to have same-sex relatns uld be liable for up to a law also cre the ath penalty for anyone nvicted of “aggravated homosexualy, ” a term fed as acts of same-sex relatns wh children or disabled people, those rried out unr threat or while someone is unnsc. Lawmakers did add language makg clear that anyone spected of beg a homosexual would not be punished unls they engaged same-sex rt of the law remaed the same, cludg mandatg a prison term of up to 20 years for anyone who promot homosexualy, a vague provisn that activists fear uld be ed to target agenci supportg L. The law, which also enurag the public to report any spected acts of homosexualy, ntas ambiguo language that mak difficult to who allows premis to be ed for same-sex relatns uld face up to seven years prison, and a person nvicted of homosexualy uld be sent for “rehabilatn.

Policians first drew up a siar measure 2009, but when was signed to law 2014, the urt stck down on procral over the past few years, polil lears, along wh domtic and ternatnal relig anizatns, began rampg up anti-gay mpaigns and warng about what they ll a threat to fay valu. Many fear such attacks may crease after neighbourg Uganda recently passed one of the world’s strictt anti-gay laws, and some policians Kenya now want to do the the party, therefore, atten only changed to lourful stum once they joed the baret si, but some guts and dignari clearly still wanted to distance themselv om the proceedgs. ” the 24-year-old were ed moured to be armed police and telligence officers the crowd: tough-lookg men civilian cloth, perhaps gatherg rmatn, but also ready to protect the crowd if while gay sex remas illegal the East Ain natn unr laws datg back to the lonial era, the gatherg had the tac acceptance of the ernment and police.

It will be an act of gross cency to take part a gay para or public same-sex displays of amoro backg such legislatn across the regn ame as cultural battle to save Ain valu and sovereignty, which they say are unr asslt by Wtern prsure to pulate on gay rights. ‘A hateful piece of legislatn’Peter Kaluma, a parliamentarian the natnal assembly behd the bill, told the Telegraph the LGBT muny was engrossed a “filthy perversn” fuelled by Wtern Kaluma, a legal scholar, said his proposal aimed to “prohib homosexualy and same sex marriage and related activi” and proscribe “activi that seek to advance, promote or fund homosexualy and unnatural sexual acts” bill was part of a “global ph back agast the LGBTQ movement even the USA and most Wtern European untri, ” he bill has provoked ep unease among the untry’s gay and lbian muny. “It is a hateful piece of legislatn that will tly make the liv of queer Kenyans unbearable if passed, ” Ante Atieno of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn mpaign group said last is also at odds wh a supreme urt lg earlier this year that the ernment was wrong to block a gay rights anisatn om registerg as an NGO.

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Partly the engagement was pragmatic, as the ernment reached out as part of efforts to tackle at the party, cludg Mike, were ls said the Ugandan legislatn had st a cloud over gay life Kenya, as had the high-profile murr January of Edw Chiloba, a gay rights activist who was killed by a former boyiend.

The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia". A member of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) seen reactg after Kenya's High Court led to uphold the Brish-era penal that crimalis gay sex (Photo: 24 May 2019)In the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab" I met Mr Kaluma - a member of veteran Kenyan opposn polician Raila Odga's Orange Democratic Movement - he was stg behd his sk at his office the pal Nairobi, proof-readg and makg rrectns to a bill that he tends to table parliament soon.

"We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law. Gay paras, drag shows, wearg the lours, the flags, the emblems of the LGBTQ group, " Mr Kaluma sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual Kaluma tells me he wants their asylum to be revoked, and for them to leave a small, hidn church set up to offer fort and support to LGBTQ people central Nairobi, the female pastor says Mr Kaluma's bill is g "a lot of panic, anxiety, fear".

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It fuels some kd of vlence that now people are planng but holdg back on, " she tells Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia".

"It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma 's Mormon founr Sharon Slater ni that the group promot anti-gay laws Ai. "Fay Watch oppos legislatn that penalis a person for havg sexual attractns or for how they intify, " she says an emailed rponse to the Slater addrsed Ain lawmakers, clerics and mpaigners at their fom Uganda's laki cy of Entebbe March, and later appeared a group photo wh Print Meveni at his official more than 20 years, Mrs Slater has lobbied ernments on what she lls "fay valu" and has ma her missn to mpaign agast children and young people beg given Comprehensive Sexualy Edutn (CSE), a curriculum-based sex tn programme champned by the Uned Natns and other c a Uned Natns Populatn Fund (UNFPA) manual for out-of-school youths east and southern Ai, sayg promot homosexualy and is too explic.

"It sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy" I ntact Maria Bakaroudis, UNFPA's CSE specialist for east and southern Ai, for ment, she says she is not keen to talk about the "opposn", as she refers to adds that the manual is only a guile, and each untry n tailor to su their Bakaroudis fends CSE, sayg provis "life-savg rmatn" to curb high rat of untend pregnanci, HIV, and sexually transmted 's LGBTQ muny has been wagg a long-nng mpaign to mand equal rightsAlthough Mr Kaluma attend the meetg Uganda -sponsored by FWI, he ni workg wh the group on his bill, which he says will propose a ban on teachg CSE sayg is part of the "LGBTQ agenda". Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said.

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KAMPALA, Uganda — Members of Uganda’s LGBTQ muny are shock and fear beg arrted after Parliament passed a measure that would make a crime to intify as gay and impose tough sentenc that clu the ath penalty certa s, an activist said “Anti-Homosexualy Bill, 2023” was passed wh a near-unanimo majory by lawmakers  the east Ain untry, where anti-gay sentiment ns ep. Ronald Kabuubi / APThe legislatn will next be sent to Print Yoweri Meveni, who has repeatedly nounced homosexualy, to be signed to Mugisha, one of a few Ugandans who live openly as gay, told Rters he was sred the measure would trigger “mass arrts of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer persons and mob vlence toward LGBTQ muni. There’s gog to be a lot of trma and s of mental health that will lead to a lot of suici, ” he relatns were already illegal Uganda, but supporters of the new law say is need to punish a broar array of LGBTQ activi, which they say threaten tradnal valu the nservative and relig East Ain measure clus steep sentenc that clu ath for “aggravated homosexualy” and life prison for same-sex relatns.

In March, the Ugandan parliament passed a law that would enforce life prison for anyone found to intify as LGBT, while also threateng lengthy prison terms for media groups, journalists, publishers, property owners, and sentially any dividuals or stutns found to be supportg, advotg, or facilatg gay rights.

The first laws crimalizg homosexualy were passed durg Brish le of Uganda, and the current foc on imprisong and torturg members of the LGBTQ muny was at least partially sparked by a 2009 meetg between right-wg Amerin anizatns Fay Life Network and Exod Internatnal and Ugandan polil and relig lears.

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Stt Lively helped anize the 2009 nference and met wh Ugandan lawmakers to spread anti-gay propaganda, and the right-wg group Liberty Counsel reprented him a lawsu brought by Ugandan LGBTQ activists over his part drivg the persecutn of gay people the untry. By CountryBy Year FoundA list of LGBT anizatns and groups Mori UgandaSexual Mori Uganda [SM-UG] is a non-prof, non-ernmental anisatn that works towards achievg full legal and social equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual…The Youth Empowerment Foundatn-TYEFThe youth Empowerment Foundatn (TYEF) is a Non- Governmental Organizatn that was formed 2009, and not yet registered.