A proposed anti-gay law uld make Uganda perhaps the most dangero place for homosexuals and drive the gays of Uganda further unrground. In a rare terview, the first of s kd wh a...
Contents:
- THE STORY OF A YOUNG UGANDAN GAY UPLE
- GAY COUPLE TO FACE LIFE SENTENCE UGANDA
- UGANDA PASSED ONE OF THE WORLD’S HARSHT ANTI-GAY LAWS. LGBTQ PEOPLE SCRIBE LIVG THERE AS ‘HELL’
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- UGANDA MAY IMPOSE SOME OF THE WORLD’S STRICTT ANTI-GAY MEASUR: ‘YOU’RE FEARG FOR YOUR LIFE’
- GAY COUPL UGANDA
- A NEW ANTI-GAY LAW UGANDA LLS FOR LIFE PRISON FOR THOSE WHO ARE NVICTED
- NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)
THE STORY OF A YOUNG UGANDAN GAY UPLE
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WORRIED: Ms Kalen fac an uncerta future after the tablg of an anti-gay law Parliament.
Although Mr Bahati said he was not a hate mpaign, he uld not expla the lack of facts to back his se --- the proposed law seeks to improve on the penalti prcribed the Penal Co, which already crimalis homosexualy --- or provi evince to back claims that European gays were recg Uganda.
GAY COUPLE TO FACE LIFE SENTENCE UGANDA
The agony of Uganda's proposed anti-gay bill: "There is a lot of fear. I love my untry so much, [but] our ernment keeps shockg .” * gay couple in uganda *
A proposed anti-gay law uld make Uganda perhaps the most dangero place for homosexuals and drive the gays of Uganda further unrground. The Sunday before last, Val Kalen listened quietly as her pastor’s sermon digrsed to a soft tira agast homosexuals. If Ms Kalen did not know her pastor to be an honourable man, a father figure, his sudn anti-gay remarks would have left her shiftg unfortably her chair, wonrg if those dread words were meant for her.
UGANDA PASSED ONE OF THE WORLD’S HARSHT ANTI-GAY LAWS. LGBTQ PEOPLE SCRIBE LIVG THERE AS ‘HELL’
Then Ms Kalen head for the door, leadg the way to her veranda, away om the children she nsired too young to know she was gay, for the sake of children she wanted to protect. In October, Ndorwa Wt MP Bahati brought an anti-gay law to the Hoe, proposg his document a new felony lled “aggravated homosexualy”, mted when the offenr has sex wh a person who is disabled or unrage, or when there is HIV transmissn.
The crime should attract the ath penalty, he proposed, while nsentg homosexuals should be imprisoned for life. The proposed law, which has the tac approval of Print Meveni, would also penalise a third party for failg to report homosexual activy, as well as crimalise the actns of a reporter who, for example, terviews a gay uple. In a untry where homosexualy is still taboo, the bill had exced the homophobic sentiments of many Ugandans, and also looked set to shg off human rights ncerns.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
As the Canadian ernment lled the law “vile and hateful”, and as the Swedish ernment threatened to cut aid over a law a mister scribed as “appallg”, the thori Kampala were sayg they would ph for the troductn of legislatn that would make Uganda one of the most dangero plac for gay people.
UGANDA MAY IMPOSE SOME OF THE WORLD’S STRICTT ANTI-GAY MEASUR: ‘YOU’RE FEARG FOR YOUR LIFE’
Ms Kalen has been openly gay sce 2002, several years before she beme a rights activist wh the group Freedom and Roam-Uganda, six years before she met the woman she lls the love of her life.
First meetgIn October 2009, around the time Mr Bahati was preparg his anti-homosexualy law, Ms Kalen’s partner, a 25-year-old woman she did not wish to name, left for the Uned Stat, where she is now a stunt and the regular senr of hopeful msag to a partner livg thoands of away.
GAY COUPL UGANDA
The uple met November 2008, one openly gay and the other closeted, but soon found the nnectn that spired them to exchange rgs a recent private ceremony.
In prs nferenc hastily lled to nmn the gays of Uganda, Ethics Mister Nsaba Buturo has been revvg up the rhetoric, tellg reporters that homosexuals n “fet about human rights”.
A NEW ANTI-GAY LAW UGANDA LLS FOR LIFE PRISON FOR THOSE WHO ARE NVICTED
In a recent prs briefg, Dr Buturo asked homosexuals to “leave alone”.
It’s not about gays…Homosexualy is not about sodomisg young boys.
NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)
It was Ms Kalen’s way of sayg that homosexuals have people their liv who treasure them, men and women who may not let their silent aversn to gays terme the urse of their iendships. But is difficult to predict how loved on would react to a revelatn that a dghter or sister is gay, Ms Kalen said. ” Then, moments later, she found her rhythm, sayg firmly that “she was dog for the whole LGBT [lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr] muny”.
Already, Speaker Edward Sekandi has spoken out to say Uganda should do whatever is necsary “to stop” homosexual relatnships Uganda.