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Contents:
- UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY BILL IS THE LATT AND WORST TO TARGET LGBTQ AINS
- EXCLIVE – BBC: GAY EXECUTN SUPPORTER TERVIEW WAS REQUIRED TO ‘BALANCE’ ELTON JOHN BABY VERAGE
UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY BILL IS THE LATT AND WORST TO TARGET LGBTQ AINS
Uganda’s parliament passed a measure Tuday to make a crime to intify as LGBTQ, handg thori broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimatn and mob vlence. * bbc news lgbt uganda *
Homosexualy punishable by ath some Ain natnsAttu ntrasts wh progrsive stanc on women, refugeA member of the South Ain Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr and Intersex muny Durban, South Ai. The measure appears to be the first to outlaw merely intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer, acrdg to rights group Human Rights Ugandan refuge who fled om their untry Nairobi, Kenya, on June 11, 2020. Brian Inganga / AP fileMarch 22, 2023, 9:17 AM UTC / Source: RtersUganda’s parliament passed a measure Tuday to make a crime to intify as LGBTQ, handg thori broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimatn and mob than 30 Ain untri, cludg Uganda, already ban same-sex relatns.
The new measur appears to be the first that would outlaw merely intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer (LGBTQ), acrdg to the rights group Human Rights addn to same-sex terurse, the measure would ban promotg and abettg homosexualy, as well as nspiracy to engage homosexualy. Vlatns would draw severe penalti, cludg ath for so-lled aggravated homosexualy and life prison for gay sex. Aggravated homosexualy volv gay sex wh people unr age 18 or when the perpetrator is HIV-posive, among other tegori, acrdg to the legislatn will be sent to Print Yoweri Meveni to be signed to Mugisha, a proment Ugandan LGBTQ activist, nounced the legislatn as dranian.
”In recent weeks, Uganda thori have cracked down on LGBTQ people after relig lears and policians alleged stunts were beg reced to homosexualy month, thori arrted a sendary school teacher the eastern district of Jja over accatns of “groomg of young girls to unnatural sex practic. Those clu the ath penalty for certa same-sex acts and a 20-year sentence for “promotg” homosexualy, which activists say uld crimalise any advocy for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer cizens.
EXCLIVE – BBC: GAY EXECUTN SUPPORTER TERVIEW WAS REQUIRED TO ‘BALANCE’ ELTON JOHN BABY VERAGE
A measure that obliged people to report homosexual activy was amend to only require reportg when a child is volved.
Failure to do so is subject to five years jail or a fe of 10 ln Ugandan shillgs (£2, 150) who “knowgly allow[s] their premis to be ed for acts of homosexualy” fac seven years jail. Meveni returned the bill to parliament last month, askg lawmakers to remove the duty to report and to troduce a provisn to facilate the “rehabilatn” of gay people. The UN human rights head, Volker Türk, lled the proposed law “shockg and discrimatory” month, a group of leadg scientists and amics om Ai and across the world urged Meveni to veto the bill, sayg that “homosexualy is a normal and natural variatn of human sexualy”, 371 MPs voted for the amend bill.
The bill will, however, pass to law whout the print’s assent if he returns to parliament for a send Among, the speaker of parliament, said: “Today, parliament has gone aga to the history books of Uganda, Ai and the world, [bee ] clearly brought up the issue of homosexualy, the moral qutn, the future of our children, and protectg fai. ”An earlier anti-gay bill 2014 also prompted wispread ternatnal cricism and was later nullified by Uganda’s nstutnal urt on procral Byagaba, an LGBTQ+ advote Kampala, suggted the latt bill uld have the same fate.