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Wednesday, October 22
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Uganda's anti-gay activists have some real balls. Just one week after Bishop Eria Paul Luzinda claimed greed breeds gays, the Independent newspaper ran an article insisting same-sex lovers are looking for new recruits.
…The signs are...
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Thursday, October 16
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Taking a page from Adolf Hitler and his campaign against "money-grubbing" Jews, Ugandan Bishop Eria Paul Luzinda this week claimed that gays are motivated by greed. Speaking to school children in Kayunfa, Luzinda claimed his country men...
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Monday, October 06
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The menace of homosexuality is apparently getting out of control in Uganda. The Ugandan government said on Saturday it would strengthen anti-gay laws and step up police operations against homosexuals amid concern about the "mushrooming"...
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Monday, October 06
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Uganda's rapidly becoming the epicenter of anti-gay action in the Southern Hemisphere!
Long a bastion of backward sexual ideals, the African nation last week hosted a group of homophobic Anglicans looking to revolt against the broader international...
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Thursday, October 02
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"The European Parliament's Intergroup on Gay and Lesbian Rights has expressed concern over the treatment of gay, lesbian and trans people in Uganda." Why other organizations aren't concerned is beyond us. [Pink News] Permalink...
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Wednesday, October 01
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Upset over the Anglican Communion's refusal to condemn the ascension of openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson, the Global Anglican Future Conference Movement flew to Uganda this week to consolidate their anti-gay sentiment. Indian Bishop Vinay Samuel...
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Sunday, September 21
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"Please take action to protest the detention and intimidation by police of Oundo George and Kiiza Brendah, transgender human rights activists in Uganda who were arrested at home for allegedly attempting to "recruit people to homosexuality...
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Monday, September 15
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John Bosco Nyombi is fighting for his life today. As we reported last week, "The British government this week informed Nyombi, an openly gay Ugandan national, that he will deported, despite the fact that the Ugandan government has a strict...
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Thursday, September 11
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We have two asylum granting cases in the U.K. dealing with a gay man (John Bosco) and a lesbian ( Prossy Kakooza ) who face a return to Uganda where they will likely be killed due to their sexual orientation. The U.K. has decided not to grant asylum...
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Thursday, September 11
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"Prossy Kakooza is a 26-year-old woman seeking asylum in the UK. She fled Uganda after suffering vicious sexual, physical and verbal attacks due to her sexual orientation. Prossy had been forced into an engagement when her family discovered...
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Thursday, September 11
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John Bosco Nyombi's shaking in his boots right now. The British government this week informed Nyombi, an openly gay Ugandan national, that he will deported, despite the fact that the Ugandan government has a strict "no homo" police...
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Tuesday, July 29
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Usaam Auf Mukwaya, one of three activists arrested last month for evading security to protest the lack of efforts toward gays at an HIV/AIDS conference at Imperial Royale Hotel in Uganda, was picked up by Ugandan police over the weekend,... Read...
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Monday, July 28
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“[Usaam Auf Mukwaya], one of Uganda’s key gay rights activists who had led demonstration at an AIDS international conference in the country, was arrested, tortured and dumped with bruises on his body in the capital Kampala on Saturday...
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Tuesday, July 15
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Here's a list of the groups that are lobbying the Senate to remove the HIV travel ban. The Dark Knight has its premiere and it's a big night for Christian Bale. But it was an even bigger night for the... Read more...
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Tuesday, July 15
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Ugandan Ethics Minister James Buturo must be great chums with president Yoweri Museveni. On the same day that Buturo called for an anti-gay witch hunt, Museveni also took some time to figuratively bash the gays: “…Museveni has lauded...
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Tuesday, July 15
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James Nsaba Buturo simply can’t help himself! The Ugandan “Ethics” Minister, who has long pledged to fight the homosexual scourge besieging his homeland, recently insisted that anti-gay activists shouldn’t fear violent repercussions...
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Wednesday, July 02
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Ugandan gay activist Frank Mugisha sent us an email to inform us that police arrested two trans women at a bar back in May. The ladies, cops said, were causing a “public nuisance,” which sounds like fancy code for being queer. Considering...
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Tuesday, June 10
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Following a well-trod argument, Ugandan Bishop Eria Paul Luzinda last week insisted that African nation must not legalize homosexuality, for it’s of evil foreign decent: I have been hearing that gays are demanding that the government should...
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Monday, June 09
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"AIDS activists arrested last week for protesting the government’s unhealthy anti-gay policies: “The 3 Ugandan LGBT activists that were arrested at the HIV Implementers’ Meeting in Kampala on the 4th of June 2008, have been released on bail...
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Monday, June 09
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Three activists who were arrested last week after evading security to protest the lack of efforts toward gays at an HIV/AIDS conference at Imperial Royale Hotel in Uganda, have been charged with criminal trespass: "The prosecutor, Emmanuel...
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Monday, June 09
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Ugandan gay activist and friend of Queerty Frank Mugisha sent us this update on the three AIDS activists arrested last week for protesting the government’s unhealthy anti-gay policies: “The 3 Ugandan LGBT activists that were arrested...
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Friday, June 06
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Brief altercations reported at Tel Aviv gay pride: "The demonstrators held signs which read: 'Animals! You have nothing to be proud of, take your medication.'" Thousands attend... Vin Diesel is a daddy — literally. McGreevey lawyer...
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Thursday, June 05
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Three gay activists were arrested at a global HIV/AIDS meeting at the Imperial Royale Hotel in Uganda on Tuesday. They were part of a larger group but happened to make their way past security and into the meeting: "A woman... Read more...
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Thursday, June 05
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Amnesty International has released a statement condemning the Ugandan government for arresting three gay activists yesterday. Said one Amnesty member, “We consider these three to be prisoners of conscience, detained for their peaceful activism...
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Wednesday, June 04
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Uganda’s queer politics garnered some protest this week. The government demonstrated sheer idiocy this week after it admitted the nation’s gays are hit - and help spread - HIV/AIDS, but then went on to say health officials won’t...
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Wednesday, June 04
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"KAMPALA, June 4 (Reuters) - Ugandan police arrested three gay rights demonstrators who stormed a major AIDS conference in Kampala on Wednesday in protest at the government's stance on homosexuality, which is banned in the east African...
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Monday, June 02
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Gays disposable: Uganda says it will ignore gays in its HIV/AIDS prevention efforts because homosexuality is illegal. Instead, they'll focus on "other high risk groups such as sex workers, truck drivers, remote fishing communities and members...
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Monday, June 02
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The Ugandan government blows our mind. Though they acknowledge that the nation’s gays are a part of the HIV/AIDS problem, officials still refuse to treat them:
[The government] said on Monday it would not focus any of its HIV/AIDS prevention...
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Thursday, May 22
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Of Africa’s 53 nations, 38 outlaw homosexuality. That’s nearly 72% of the continent. As gay rights movements rise across the various nations, the editors of To Have and to Hold: The Making of Same-Sex Marriage in South Africa chatted...
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