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Contents:

• UGANDAN TABLOID PUBLISH NEW 'GAY LIST'
• UGANDAN NEWSPAPER PRTS LIST OF ‘200 TOP’ GAYS
• UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL: LIFE PRISON FOR SAYG YOU'RE GAY
• IS IT NOW LEGAL TO BE GAY UGANDA?
• NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA
• UGANDAN NEWSPAPER PRTS LIST OF '200 TOP' GAYS
• UGANDAN “GAY LIST” NMNED
• UGANDA NEWSPAPER PUBLISH 'GAY LIST,' LLS FOR THEIR HANGG
• IS KENYA ABOUT TO FOLLOW UGANDA WH STRICT ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN?
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
• UGANDA'S LIST OF 'TOP 200 GAYS': PAPER SLATED
• UGANDA NEWSPAPER CALLS FOR THE HANGG OF 100 GAYS
• 67 COUNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL AS UGANDA ENACTS HARSHT ANTI-LGBTQ LAW
• ‘WE WILL HUNT YOU’: UGANDANS FLEE AHEAD OF HARSH ANTI-GAY LAW
• THE UGANDAN MUM WHO WAS ONCE ASHAMED OF HER GAY SON
• JUDGE ORRS UGANDAN PAPER TO STOP PUBLISHG 'GAY LISTS'
• ‘WE DON’T WANT YOUR PRO-GAY MONEY’: REGIME SUPPORTERS UGANDA MARCH FOR ‘ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY ACT’
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• UGANDAN GAY RIGHTS GROUP SU U.S. EVANGELIST

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. A Ugandan newspaper has published a list of what lled the untry's 200 top homosexuals, outg some who prevly had not intified themselv as gay, a day after the print enacted a harsh anti-gay US secretary of state, John Kerry, said the signg of the bill by Print Yoweri Meveni on Monday marked "a tragic day for Uganda and for all who re about the e of human rights", and warned that Washgton uld cut aid.

UGANDAN NEWSPAPER PRTS LIST OF ‘200 TOP’ GAYS

A proment Ugandan gay activist, David Kato, was killed after the list was published, and activists said they believed he had been targeted bee of his work promotg gay rights new law punish gay sex wh up to life jail, a measure cricised as dranian a untry where homosexualy had already been bill origally proposed the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy", fed as repeated gay sex between nsentg adults and acts volvg a mor, a disabled person or where one partner was fected wh HIV. Homosexualy has long been crimalised Uganda unr a lonial-era law that outlawed sex acts "agast the orr of nature" Ugandan lawyers and activists have said they will challenge the law urt as unnstutnal and impossible to Tuday, Nicholas Opiyo, a Ugandan lawyer who ns a rights watchdog group lled Chapter Four, said would make life worse for gay people Uganda.

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

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.

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. " World lears who nmned the Anti-Homosexualy Act, and some s whheld or redirected aid while asssg the law's impact, did the right thg -- but failg to nmn other ser human rights ab by Meveni's regime, such as torture by the police and ary, the killgs of unarmed prottors 2009 and 2011, and ongog threats to civil society, they leave the imprsn of prrizg the rights of LGBTI people over other ncerns. 'Uganda's Print Yoweri Meveni has signed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQ laws, cludg the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy, " fiance of Wtern nmnatns and potential sanctns om aid relatns were already illegal Uganda, as more than 30 Ain untri, but the new law go much impos pal punishment for some behavur, cludg transmtg a termal illns like HIV/AIDS through gay sex, and stipulat a 20-year sentence for "promotg" homosexualy.

IS IT NOW LEGAL TO BE GAY UGANDA?

However, Alex Kofi Donkor, founr of LGBT+ Rights Ghana, says what happened Uganda is 'barbaric, ' and that people should not be crimalized for their and other activists have vowed to lnch a legal challenge to the law, which Meveni was shown signg at his sk wh a goln pen a photo tweeted by Uganda's 78-year-old lear has lled homosexualy a "viatn om normal" and urged lawmakers to rist "imperialist" prsure. Print's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), s flagship HIV/AIDS activists Uganda ' shock' over anti-gay legislatn, fearg mass arrtsAnti-LGBTQ bill passed Uganda ed as 'low-hangg u' to distract public, rearcher saysIn a jot statement on Monday, PEPFAR, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Jot Uned Natns Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said the law put Uganda's fight agast HIV/AIDS " grave jeopardy.

“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 homosexualy is already a crime the East Ain untry, Lokodo says the ernment wants to make clear that volvement the “promotn or recment”of homosexualy also should be crimalised by troducg a harsher punishment on the act of homosexualy.

"Now that this law has been enacted, we are begng an ternal review of our relatnship wh the Government of Uganda to ensure that all dimensns of our engagement, cludg assistance programs, uphold our anti-discrimatn polici and prcipl and reflect our valu, " Kerry said a Red Pepper tabloid published the nam — and some pictur — of alleged homosexuals a ont-page story unr the headle: "EXPOSED! "The media wch-hunt is back, " tweeted Jacquele Kasha, a proment Ugandan lbian activist who appears on Red Pepper's ptn, There was applse as Yoweri Meveni claimed: "Society n do somethg about to disurage the trend"Well-known gay rights activist Pepe Julian Onziema is also on the list, along wh a popular hip-hop star and a Catholic prit, AP Monday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Mr Meveni's cisn to sign the bill was a "tragic day for Uganda and for all who re about the e of human rights". Norway and Denmark said they would transfer direct aid - together totallg about $17m - to non-ernmental Meveni signed a watered-down versn of the bill on Monday, which clus life sentenc for gay sex and same-sex marriage However, a clse crimalisg those who do not report gay people was removed as well as a proposed sentence of up to 14 years for first-time offenrs.

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

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan newspaper published a list Tuday of what lled the untry's "200 top" gays, outg some Ugandans and raisg fears of vlence agast those named jt a day after the print enacted a severe anti-gay on the list "are sred and they need help, " said Pepe Julian Onziema, a proment Ugandan gay activist who was named the Red Pepper tabloid. Ugandan newspaper publish 'gay list'STORY HIGHLIGHTSNext to the list was a yellow strip wh the words "hang them""We are all terrified, " an activist says Homosexualy is illegal most Ain untri (CNN) -- A Ugandan newspaper published a story featurg a list of the natn's "top" gays and lbians wh their photos and addrs, angerg activists who say the already margalized group risks facg further attacks. ” Recent ments by Lokodo on the subject of homosexualy clu the claim that heterosexual rape of young girls – which is wispread Uganda – is morally preferable to nsensual love between a same-sex June this year, Lokodo won a urt se agast several gay rights activists – cludg Frank Mugisha, the head of SMUG, and a man who is somethg of a talisman for the movement Uganda.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA

Mandatory Cred: Photo by Dai Kurokawa/EPA/Shutterstock (7965355a)Kenyan Supporters of the Lgbt Communy Stage a Prott Agast Uganda's Anti-gay Bill Front of the Ugandan High Commissn Nairobi Kenya 10 Febary 2014 Ugandan Print Yoweri Meveni is to Deci Before 16 Febary Whether Or not to Enact the Proposed Anti-gay Law Which Would Mean Homosexuals Uganda Would Face Life Imprisonment Kenya NairobiKenya Uganda Anti Homosexual Bill - Feb 2014Dai Kurokawa/EPA/ShutterstockJt as Kato’s body was due to be sunk to the Ain earth, a Christian preacher took to the microphone and began beratg the gay people prent mourng, makg parisons to Sodom and Gomorrah. 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. ‘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.

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. 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".

UGANDAN NEWSPAPER PRTS LIST OF '200 TOP' GAYS

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.

While not specific to health, asserted that the AHA was “misterpreted” by velopment partners, that only tend to prevent the “open promotn of homosexualy, pecially among children and vulnerable groups”; that “no activi of dividuals, groups, pani or anizatns” would be affected by the AHA; and that the ernment was mted to the provisn of servic to all Uganda, whout discrimatn. • June 10: Followg the arrt of two gay men his area, the client, who is a [key populatns] ordator at a ernment health facily, was threatened wh vlence by their lleagu at work and people the muny, who said he was rponsible for the actns of the two who had been arrted bee he was always the one supportg them and givg them treatment.

Those takg part gay sex face life prison, unr the 'crime' of "aggravated homosexualy" which also clus sex wh a mor or while HIV bill had origally proposed the ath legislatn also creat offenc of "nspiracy to m homosexualy" as well as "aidg and abettg homosexualy, " both of which are punishable wh a seven-year jail nvicted of "promotg homosexualy" face siar laws - which me jt over a month after Nigeria passed a siar measure agast gays - have been nmned around the world, although is wily popular among Ugandans. Print Yoweri Meveni, who signed the bill to law, said was need bee the Wt was promotg homosexualy he rejected ternatnal cricism, sayg other untri should not terfere Uganda's ternal Meveni also acced "arrogant and rels Wtern groups" of tryg to rec Ugandan children to homosexualy, but he did not name the purported spokman Patrick Onyango said no homosexuals have been arrted sce the print signed the bill but at least two had been taken to ctody sce policians passed the bill last Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday's signg marked "a tragic day for Uganda and for all who re about the e of human rights".

UGANDAN “GAY LIST” NMNED

We gui them and keep close ntact at all phas-takg special re of each and every gut at all tim as their nfintial and tsted travel is safe, as I mentned earlier, as long as the culture is rpected and there is no public showg of There is a spl the queer muny, where some say they refe to vis and spend their money homophobic plac, where others feel is important to vis those plac and be visible to change hearts and mds. 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.

UGANDA NEWSPAPER PUBLISH 'GAY LIST,' LLS FOR THEIR HANGG

KEY POINTSUganda's new law stipulat the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy"About 67 untri crimalize homosexualyThere are at least 11 untri which the ath penalty is imposed or a legal possibily for nsensual, same-sex sexual activyUganda, one of the nearly 70 untri that crimalize homosexualy, has recently enacted one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQ relatns were already illegal Uganda, as 66 other natns around the world, acrdg to the Human Digny Tst.

However, the new law signed by Ugandan Print Yoweri Meveni clus the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy, " a broad term that uld clu gay sex wh a mor or wh someone who is HIV posive, Rters legislatn stipulat pal punishment for "serial offenrs" agast the anti-LGBTQ law and for those who transm termal diseas like HIV/AIDS through gay sex. However, the new law lls for the ath penalty regardls of whether the transmissn was tentnal or untentnal and has no exceptn based on awarens of HIV legislatn was amend earlier this month to stipulate that merely intifyg as LGBTQ is not a crime and to require people to report homosexual activy only when a child is the LGBTQ muny Uganda said the chang were els sce the untry's law enforcement allegedly regularly exceeds s legal thory to harass 's anti-LGBTQ law was met wh cricism at home, while Wtern untri and ternatnal anizatns warned the untry of losg aid.

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

The ath penalty is a legal possibily for same-sex relatns Afghanistan, Bnei, Mrania, Pakistan, Qatar and the Uned Arab Emirat, acrdg to s 41 untri crimalize nsensual sexual activy between women, but lbian and bisexual women have been subjected to arrt or threat of arrt even natns that do not explicly crimalize , acrdg to the far, only 33 untri regnize same-sex marriag, while 34 others provi for some partnership regnn for same-sex upl, the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) told BBC is the plete list of untri that crimalize same-sex relatns, acrdg to the Human Digny Tst.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

Meveni has not mented on the current proposal but he has long opposed LGBTQ rights and signed an anti-LGBTQ law 2013 that Wtern untri nmned before a domtic urt stck down on procral 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" was subsequently charged wh gross cency and is prison awag police said on Monday they had arrted six people acced of nng a work that was "actively volved the groomg of young boys to acts of sodomy".

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

David Behati — who first troduced the Anti-Homosexualy Bill 2009 and was a key player the ensug mpaign — scribed to Sharlet the fluence of a ntroversial Amerin Christian nservative movement known lloquially as "The Fellowship" and "The Fay" visg and enuragg the legislatn, cludg at the early stag when still clud a ath penalty provisn. In nmng a law the Uganda Parliament jt passed that impos life imprisonment for gay sex, the ath penalty for “aggravated homosexualy” and mak a crime to even intify as LGBTQ, the Whe Hoe this week lled the measure om the East Ain natn “one of the most extreme” anti-LGBTQ laws the world and said that “no one should be attacked, imprisoned or killed simply bee of who they are or who they love.

STORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: The tabloid edor ni that anyone has had to go to hidg bee of the list The junctn stops the paper om prtg nam and pictur of people says are gayA gay rights group says shows the media nnot va dividuals' privacyThe tabloid's managg edor says he will keep speakg out agast homosexualy (CNN) -- A judge temporarily orred a tabloid Uganda to stop publishg lists intifyg people claims are gay after an advocy anizatn filed a lawsu.

Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednday led her arguments were not sufficiently nvcg to grant an lg cleared the way for the bill, one of the harsht towards the LGBTQ muny Ai, to go through a fal stage of parliamentary approval before beg signed to May, Uganda's Print Yoweri Meveni signed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQ laws, which spelled out the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy"'s bill, backed by relig and tradnal lears, clus jail sentenc of up to 10 years for advotg for LGBTQ rights. Lively posted a report after his vis to Uganda 2009 scribg how he addrsed groups of lawyers, members of Parliament, universi, sendary schools and Christian lears about “the ‘gay’ agenda, ” and spoke at a three-day Mugisha, of Sexual Mori Uganda, the platiff the lawsu, said Wednday a nference ll that before the events 2009, gay men and lbians were “looked at as different, ” but that “no one bothered them.

UGANDA'S LIST OF 'TOP 200 GAYS': PAPER SLATED

For our most recent update to the list, we’ve add mastream edi Fire Island and Bros, thriller Knock at the Cab (featurg two pairs of hbands whose vatn is terpted by the potential apolypse), Disney feature Strange World (wh the stud’s first openly gay lead character), Blue Jean (a Brish drama set durg the Thatcher premiership), the extremely well-reviewed Girl Picture), France’s magil realist The Five Devils, and Cann 2023 buts Monster and Strange Way of Life.

UGANDA NEWSPAPER CALLS FOR THE HANGG OF 100 GAYS

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