Introduction The country may be homophobic and the politicians and clerics may be close-minded but that does not stop Uganda’s LGBT activists from charging on with hope and integrity. In Memorium: On February 26, 2011 one of Uganda’s finest and most outspoken LGBT rights activist, David Kato, was murdered in cold blood in his home. Friends and
Uganda is the first country in the world to have a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage (since 2004). It has become the ‘poster child’ for irrational hysteric societies that rant and rave against homosexuality. Whipped up by American evangelicals who traveled to Uganda to brainwash some politicians about the dangers of same-sex attraction the country passed a draconian law that further criminalized LGBT people beyond the already existing laws against being gay. As a result there has been a significant increase in harassment and violence against LGBTs. However on August 1, 2014 the Ugandan Constitutional court declared the law to be invalid because it was improperly passed by parliament–approved without a quorum. The law was struck down. For now.
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