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.
Name: Uganda
Population: 21778000
Capital: Kampala - Pop. 1246000
Area: 241038 sq. km/ sq. miles
Language: English, Ganda or Luganda, many local languages
Religion: Roman Catholic, Protestant, indigenous beliefs, Muslim
Status of Homosexuality: Illegal for males
Telephone Country Code: 256
Uganda – Kampala City
Kampala city is home to about a million and a half people most of whom are manual laborers tending to the huge food markets, driving worn buses, cementing new structures together or demolishing old ones with sledge hammers. It is a workers’ city that hardly sleeps; it is ambitious in commerce, eager in education, aggressive
Uganda – Masindi Town
Masindi town is on the way to Murchison Falls National Park. It is typical of rural villages with its general impoverished lifestyle, manual labor job force and bustling daily food market. Yet there is a resigned easy-going attitude among the residents who share a common bond in their village: the will to survival by being resourceful.
Uganda – Murchison Falls
This national park in the northwest of Uganda is home to one of the world’s most powerful waterfalls as well as a large wild animal reserve. Here a wide river flow is forced through a six-meter-wide narrow gorge with ferocious force. Visitors can take a boat ride up the Victoria branch of the Nile River
Uganda – Lake Bunyonyi
This is Uganda’s most beautiful lake, set among green cultivated hills and home to numerous small villages of farmers, fishermen and pygmies.