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Legal challenge hits Uganda’s cruel anti-gay law; U.S. weighs travel bans, funding cuts
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Immediate backlash after Uganda president signs cruel anti-gay bill into law
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Uganda President Yoweri Museveni today signed the cruel, [...]
Appeal to Uganda president: Save lives, ‘lead from the front’ by rejecting anti-gay bill
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Ugandan peer educators — gay, arrested, labeled as porn actors
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The executive director of the non-profit African Human Rights [...]
Ugandan LGBTQ activist readies for the fight of his life
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As Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni nears a decision abo [...]
U.S. Christians keep boosting homophobic backers of Ugandan ‘Kill the Gays’ bill
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The TYT Network reports that the homophobic, secretive co [...]
Museveni boosts African anti-gay campaign despite inaction on Ugandan bill
Human race depends on gay people procreating, Uganda president claims.
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Uganda: Mothers of LGBTQ+ children petition Museveni to block Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Pressure mounts on President Museveni following Parliament's passage of homophobic bill.
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Ugandan journalist vows court challenge of anti-gay bill
If the President signs it, next stop will be Constitutional Court.
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Uganda races to adopt new ‘Jail the Gays Bill’, greeted by silence in U.S. and Europe
Uganda's latest "Jail the Gays Bill" has not yet aroused many strong protests from American and European supporters of the human rights of LGBTQ peopl [...]
Ugandan parliament is close to approving repressive anti-gay bill
By Joto La Jiwe
The Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda, Anita Among, has given Ugandan legislators the green light to bring an anti-homosexuality [...]
Uganda demands probe into ‘LGBTQ activities’ in schools
Amid an anti-LGBTQ outburst, the Ugandan parliament is investigating what it calls "festering" homosexual activities in schools.
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Rainbow park equipment in Uganda is repainted so it won’t ‘corrupt’ children
The mayor of Entebbe in central Uganda, Fabrice Brad Rulinda, has removed rainbow-colored coats of paint from a tower in a local children’s park follo [...]
Uganda is working to stamp out groups promoting human rights for LGBTIQ people
The Ugandan government has announced plans to investigate 22 non-governmental organizations that work to improve the health of LGBTIQ Ugandans and to [...]
LBQ organisation protects sex workers from Ebola virus in Uganda
As Uganda celebrates the end of a deadly Ebola virus outbreak, health officials are praising the work of a local organization that advocates for LBQ s [...]
Homophobic Ugandan official takes aim at efforts to fight HIV in the LGBTQ community
The deputy speaker of Uganda's Parliament has raised a homophobic challenge against a national policy aimed at protecting the nation's LGBTQ communit [...]
U.S. honors Ugandan human rights defender Margaret Sekaggya
The U.S. Mission in Uganda has recognized activist Margaret Sekaggya with the Dorothy Ngalombi Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her outsta [...]
Trans and LBQ sex workers most hit by sexual violence, Uganda report says
A baseline assessment on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) issues affecting sex workers in Uganda has revealed that transgender, lesbian, b [...]
Court kills ‘rogue and vagabond’ laws targeting Ugandan sexual minorities
Human rights organisations in Uganda welcome a December 2022 Constitutional Court ruling that struck down two key provisions of the Penal Code that la [...]
Uganda’s latest homophobic panic: Fear that gays are coming for the kids
Ugandan leaders are raising alarms based on the old homophobic delusion that LGBTQ people want to turn straight children gay.
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Activists launch website to document trans and intersex African history
A group of activists has launched an initiative to document and preserve the history of trans and intersex Africans and their struggle for equal right [...]
Uganda orders shutdown of prominent LGBT rights group SMUG
Homophobic Ugandan officials have ordered a shutdown of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), which has been the nation's most prominent support group for [...]
Anglicans derailed anti-gay vote, but 125 anti-gay bishops forge ahead
Progressive Anglican bishops breathed a sigh of relief that plans for a vote against homosexuality were derailed at the just-ended international Lambe [...]
Global South bishops push for Anglican vote against same-sex marriage
Conservative bishops from the Global South want to force a vote on same-sex marriage at the Lambeth Conference, a worldwide gathering of Anglican bish [...]
Uganda bids to host African HIV/AIDS conference despite human rights challenges
Uganda has started a new bid to host the 2023 International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA), attempting to rehabilitate its reputation f [...]
Ugandan activists challenge HIV criminalization law
Human rights defenders in Uganda have filed their final arguments in a landmark Constitutional Court petition challenging sections of the HIV/AIDS pre [...]
Ugandan human rights report: Violence, disappearances, disputes
By a staff writer
The Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC), the statutory body mandated to monitor human rights and freedoms in the country, has r [...]
Ugandan vlogger’s homophobic rant puts migrant workers at risk in Middle East
A self-righteous Ugandan national living in the Middle East has released an excruciatingly homophobic online rant blasting Ugandans and other Africans [...]
Anglican archbishop urges talk, not boycott, over LGBT issues
Amid disputes over same-sex marriage and LGBT clergy, many bishops and archbishops from across the worldwide Anglican Communion are gearing up for the [...]
Warning to LGBT organizations in Uganda: Be cyber smart
LGBT advocacy organizations in Uganda are at risk of cyber attacks, according to a report published by Key Populations Uganda (KPU). The organization [...]
Ugandan activists launch campaign against religion-fueled homophobia
Human rights activists in Uganda have launched a new campaign to end religious inspired homophobia, with a call to Abrahamic religions to embrace love [...]
Homophobic candidate seeks top post in Ugandan parliament
Jacob Oboth Oboth, Uganda's homophobic State Minister for Defense, has resigned his position to allow him join the race to become Speaker of Parliamen [...]
A year of progress on global LGBTQ rights, but so much remains to do
COMMENTARY: U.S. support of worldwide LGBTQ rights during the first year of the Biden administration led to "significant progress" but "there is far t [...]
Uganda rebuffs U.N. nations’ pleas to protect LGBTI rights
During an international review of Uganda's human rights record, the Ugandan government made no direct mention of LGBTI rights and did not commit to ad [...]
Activists laud U.S. program that helps LGBTI Ugandans in fight against HIV
Gay rights activists in Uganda recently joined the United States government in celebrating 19 years of Pepfar, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for [...]
Ugandan court to rule on shutdown of LGBT ally organisation Chapter Four
Uganda's High Court in Kampala has set March 18 as the date to rule on an application seeking to quash the government's decision to indefinitely suspe [...]
Celebrating the memory of murdered gay rights defender, David Kato, eleven years on
Human rights defenders in Uganda have launched a lecture series in memory of David Kato, the Ugandan human rights activist and teacher who was murdere [...]
Unchanged: A lesbian Christian’s journey through ‘ex-gay’ life
Groundbreaking Ugandan LGBTQ activist Val Kalende explains how "gay conversion therapy" failed her and how she has sought to reconcile her Christian f [...]
For gay Ugandans, no tears at death of repressive homophobe Simon Lokodo
Simon Lokodo, an energetic and persistent persecutor of the Ugandan LGBTI community, died Jan. 29 in Switzerland -- a demise that was greeted with bit [...]
Paul Ssemwogerere, who calls homosexuality abnormal, installed as Ugandan archbishop
The Most Rev. Bishop Paul Ssemwogere has today (Jan. 25) officially been installed as the Archbishop of Uganda's Kampala Archdiocese, replacing the l [...]
Dr Stella Nyanzi, Ugandan LGBT ally, flees for safety to Germany
Ugandan LGBT ally and academic scholar Dr Stella Nyanzi has fled to Germany with her children over fears of government persecution, arrest and torture [...]
Paul Ssemogerere, who says homosexuality is against nature, appointed Archbishop of Kampala
Bishop Paul Ssemogerere, who has previously argued that homosexuality is against the order of nature and the teachings of the Catholic Church, was app [...]
Ugandan LGBT ally lawyer Nicholas Opiyo wins Human Rights Tulip award
Ugandan human rights lawyer and LGBT ally Nicholas Opiyo has won this year's Human Rights Tulip Award for his work protecting civil liberties and advo [...]
U.S. sanctions Uganda intelligence chief over ‘serious human rights abuse’
The United States government has imposed economic and travel sanctions on a senior intelligence official in Uganda, Major General Abel Kandiho, the co [...]
Uganda gay rights activists renew call: ‘End Inequalities, End AIDS’
LGBT rights defenders have reiterated the call to the Ugandan government to fast-track efforts aimed at ending inequalities in access to care, treatme [...]
African rights commission hears appeal to halt repression of LGBTI Ugandans
The government of Uganda has been urged to repeal provisions of the law criminalising consensual same-sex relations because they provide legal cover f [...]
Gay man survives homophobic attack in eastern Uganda
A member of the LGBT community in eastern Uganda was attacked at home on Nov. 25 by men brandishing machetes and chanting homophobic slurs.
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Biden is silent when a loud message on global LGBT rights is needed
COMMENTARY: The United States has missed important opportunities to send a strong, clear, much-needed message about the nation's commitment to global [...]
Stella Nyanzi: In memoriam for my intersex son
Grace was born intersex, with both male and female sexual characteristics -- a variation from traditional gender norms that his parents tried to corre [...]
Uganda issues corrected national ID document for trans woman
The Ugandan government has issued a national Identification document to Cleopatra Kambugu, a transgender woman, clearly identifying her as a woman, in [...]