Uganda's Bill on LGBTQs

  • Recently, Uganda’s Parliament passed a Bill making it illegal to identify as an LGBTQ person, going several steps ahead of neighbouring countries in the African continent which outlaw same-sex relationships and marriages.
  • The new law, if passed, will be the first to outlaw merely identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ).
  • In addition to same-sex intercourse, the law bans “promoting and abetting” homosexuality as well as “conspiracy to engage in homosexuality”.
  • Violations under the law draw severe penalties, including death for so-called aggravated homosexuality and life in prison for gay sex.
  • More than 30 of Africa’s 54 countries, ....
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