The agony of Uganda's proposed anti-gay bill: 'There is a lot of fear. I love my country so much, but our government keeps shocking us.”
His parents, he says, have long wondered, and, lately, he’s been thinking about how to tell them.
Jessica Stern, the U.S. State Department’s special envoy to advance the human rights of LGBTQI+ people, calls the bill, also known as the Anti-Homosexuality Act, “cruel and extreme.”“Community members tell me that home evictions and community violence against LGBTQI+ people have already increased with the bill’s passage by parliament,” Stern said.
a steep rise in anti-gay violence since February, when a military officer urged health officials not to treat homosexuals in government health centers, despite the risk to public safety. If the Anti-Homosexuality Bill becomes law, it would make Uganda, a country of 46 million people, the fourth on the African continent where homosexuals can be put to death; in three others, people convicted of same-sex relations can be imprisoned for life.
Activists rally against Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill at the Ugandan High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa, on April 4, 2023.
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