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Foreign Minister Penny Wong calls out Uganda’s new anti-gay laws
Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has spoken out against Uganda’s harsh new anti-gay laws, that include the death penalty. The new law imposes a life sentence for gay sex as well as the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”. Those convicted of “promoting homosexuality” also face twenty years in prison. President Yoweri Museveni (pictured above, inset) …
Ugandan President signs anti-LGBTQ+ death penalty law
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed one of the world’s toughest anti-LGBTQ+ laws, which includes permitting the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”, sparking international outrage. Under the new law, specific same-sex acts can result in the imposition of the death penalty or life imprisonment. The law defines “aggravated homosexuality” as “the sexual abuse of a …
Call for sanctions against Uganda over anti-LGBTQIA+ laws
National lobby group, Just.Equal Australia, this week called on Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, to speak out against Uganda’s sweeping new anti-LGBTQIA+ laws. Uganda’s new anti-LGBTQIA+ laws include: life imprisonment for identifying as gay. a requirement to report people in same-sex relationships. crippling fines for landlords renting premises to homosexuals. a blanket ban on support for …
Govt shuts down Sexual Minorities Uganda over name
The government of autocratic president Yoweri Museveni last week closed down Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), the country’s leading LGBTQ rights organization. SMUG director Frank Mugisha described the action as “a clear witch hunt rooted in systematic homophobia.” The government accused the organisation of operating illegally. However, Frank Mugisha said the government previously rejected registering SMUG …
HUREED: supporting marginalised & persecuted LGBTIQ+ Ugandans
Worldwide, the LGBTIQ+ communities strive for survival, equality, justice and happiness on a daily basis. In Uganda, one organisation continues a daily struggle to assist some of the most marginalised and disadvantaged LGBTIQ+ people in the world. With few resources and no significant international support, HUREED persists to overcome daily challenges that we in the …
Uganda doubles down on gay sex ban with new homophobic laws
Uganda has passed a bill further outlawing “unnatural” same-sex relations and doubling down on laws criminalising its LGBT community. The parliament of Uganda confirmed they passed the Sexual Offences Bill 2019 this week, putting consensual gay sex on par with bestiality under the law. Ugandan MPs first drafted the bill as far back as 2015. …
Queer Ugandans sue authorities after alleged torture in prison
Twenty LGBT people in Uganda have sued authorities for alleged torture in prison after their arrest during coronavirus lockdown. In late March authorities arrested the gay and bisexual men and four trans women at a shelter in Kampala where they were staying. Harrowing footage showed the men whipped, interrogated, searched and publicly shamed during the …
Police in Uganda arrest 120 LGBTIQ people in bar raid
Police in Uganda have arrested around 120 LGBTIQ people in a raid on a bar known as a safe haven for the queer community in the African country. The raid happened at the RAM Bar late on Sunday night in Uganda’s capital Kampala, during a weekly LGBTIQ gathering at the venue. Armed police herded bar …
Ugandan police charge 16 LGBTIQ activists with ‘crime’ of gay sex
Sixteen men in Uganda have been arrested and charged on suspicion of gay sex, punishable with life in prison. The men were taken into custody on Monday at a meeting of a local NGO and later subjected them to “degrading and inhumane” forced anal exams, local activists said. Local group Let’s Walk Uganda claimed a …
Lesbian refugee bashed for being gay faces deportation back to Uganda
A lesbian seeking asylum in the US after being bashed over her sexuality in Uganda may be deported back there by the Trump Administration. The lesbian woman has told Rolling Stone about the violence she faced in her home country and her efforts to seek asylum in the US. The woman said she knew she …
