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Contents:
- BLACK, GAY AND GRAYG GRACEFULLY LOVE
- PROGRS FOR GAY RIGHTS AI STILL ISN’T EVABLE
- UGANDA PASSED ONE OF THE WORLD’S HARSHT ANTI-GAY LAWS. LGBTQ PEOPLE SCRIBE LIVG THERE AS ‘HELL’
- FIERCE LOVE: STORI FROM BLACK GAY LIFE
BLACK, GAY AND GRAYG GRACEFULLY LOVE
While gay rights are on the rise the U.S., vlent homophobia remas rampant many Ain natns * african gay life *
But for one night each week, the prostut take a break and this place of heterosexual merce be the clost thg Kampala–a cy of 2 ln and the pal of the East Ain natn of Uganda–has to a haven for gay people.
At the bar, Kampala’s lbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgenr people gather over bottl of the lol Club beer to soothe rattled nerv and take refuge a place where strangers do not glare at them wh hostily.
PROGRS FOR GAY RIGHTS AI STILL ISN’T EVABLE
Beg gay Ai and Europe n be a burn. Do g out affect the way people see you as a man? Do change your daily life? Why do some immigrants ntue to live the closet when they move to Europe? #CryLikeaBoy #Podst * african gay life *
Followg the Febary 2014 enactment of a bill that allowed urts to sentence LGBT cizens to life prison, the tabloid Red Pepper prted a list of “Uganda’s Top 200 Homos. The rise anti-gay sentiment has many LGBT Ugandans spairg of ever beg able to walk down the street whout fear of beg spat upon, cursed or even physilly attacked. Acrdg to a 2013 report by the Pew Rearch Center, the vast majory of Ains–98% Nigeria, 90% Kenya and 96% Uganda, Senegal and Ghana–say homosexualy is unacceptable.
UGANDA PASSED ONE OF THE WORLD’S HARSHT ANTI-GAY LAWS. LGBTQ PEOPLE SCRIBE LIVG THERE AS ‘HELL’
At a moment when a large majory of North Amerins, Lat Amerins and Europeans have e to accept homosexualy–and when same-sex marriage is legal 20 untri, cludg the U. Relig nservativ may be losg the battle on LGBT rights the Wt, but Ai, where church and mosque rema rnerston of society, some of the same anti-gay activists have been termed to hold ground, says Ty Cobb, global director of the Washgton-based Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT-rights advocy group.
FIERCE LOVE: STORI FROM BLACK GAY LIFE
” Many Ain policians have e to see LGBT rights as an unwanted Wtern import, and they’ve rpond by draftg anti-gay legislatn even more dranian than the lonial-era sodomy laws that rema on the books many Ain untri.
The cultural divi was highlighted durg Print Barack Obama’s recent vis to Ai, where he raised the issue of gay rights wh Kenyan Print Uhu Kenyatta, parg anti-gay legislatn to the laws that once jtified slavery and segregatn the U.