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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. 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.

PROGRS FOR GAY RIGHTS AI STILL ISN’T EVABLE

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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. ” 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. ” Nowhere is the Toxic Brew of Ain nservatism, Amerin evangelil fluence and polil gay-bag more visible than Uganda, where LGBT cizens fear for their liv. Kawi, the baby-faced transgenr activist Kampala, still has nightmar about the night, 2½ years ago, when she says police officers dragged her out of her home after a tip-off that she might be gay.

UGANDA PASSED ONE OF THE WORLD’S HARSHT ANTI-GAY LAWS. LGBTQ PEOPLE SCRIBE LIVG THERE AS ‘HELL’

That started changg 2009, when nservative Ugandan pastors beme ncerned about what they saw as the growg fluence of liberal Wtern valu Uganda and what they feared would be the acpanyg acceptance of homosexualy.

S., the three pastors–Stt Lively, Don Schmierer and Caleb Lee Bndidge–were members of a Christian movement that preached agast homosexualy and promoted so-lled gay-nversn therapy to what had bee a rapidly dwdlg dience. As the Massachetts-based founr of Abidg Tth Mistri, a Christian anizatn hostile to homosexualy, Lively had spent nearly 20 years fightg what he lled the gay muny’s Marxist plot to break down the nuclear fay mol and stroy civilizatn.

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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’