Front Line Defenders demands an end to ongoing harassment of Ugandan human rights defender Sandra Ntebi, an LGBTI activist who focuses on the safety of members of Uganda’s LGBTI community. This is today’s press release from Front Line Defenders: Uganda -– LGBTI human rights defender Sandra Ntebi target of persistent harassment On 16 August 2016, … Continue reading
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LGBTIQ Ugandans mourn Orlando victims
Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi describes yesterday’s Uganda Is Orlando vigil in Kampala. By Stella Nyanzi A beautiful Ugandan gay man stood beside an American man as they sang to us the national anthem of the USA. Immediately after, a handsome Ugandan gay man led us into singing the national anthem of Uganda. We lit candles, … Continue reading
Payback time for sleazy Uganda tabloid in war of words
When the journalists at the Hello tabloid of Uganda published the latest article in a hateful tradition of forced outings of alleged and actual LGBT citizens, they couldn’t know that they themselves would become the targets of a much more imaginative and enjoyable writer — Ugandan anthropology researcher Stella Nyanzi. As a straight ally of … Continue reading
Lesbians targeted by Ugandan tabloid, Kenyan school
East African tabloid newspapers returned last week to their hateful tradition of outing alleged and actual LGBT citizens, this time with a front-page article that listed alleged lesbians in Uganda. The article in the Hello tabloid of May 29 came less than two weeks after a Kenyan tabloid listed that country’s “top” 14 gays and … Continue reading
Uganda: Party-style Pride after victory in court
A hundred-plus people attended Uganda’s third annual Pride festivities, held yesterday on a beach in Entebbe. The mood was celebratory, because the Constitutional Court had just overturned Uganda’s harsh Anti-Homosexuality Act on Aug. 1. From Agence France-Presse: Dancing and waving rainbow-coloured flags, Ugandan activists held their first gay pride rally Saturday since the overturning of … Continue reading
Probe of 5 alleged arrests as Uganda denies anti-gay bias
A team of human rights lawyers is heading to the Pader district in northern Uganda to investigate a report of five suspected homosexuals arrested there. The lawyers are from the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum – Uganda (HRAPF), which has arranged for legal representation for several recent LGBTI detainees and defendants in Uganda. According … Continue reading
Uganda: Police release trans woman who aided a friend
Ugandan police have released a transgender woman whom they arrested last weekend in response to a community protest against LGBT people living in their neighborhood in Kampala. Adrian Jjuuko, executive director of the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF), said that attorneys arranged for Reagan’s release on May 7 from Salama Police Post. She … Continue reading
Uganda mob seeks to oust gays; police arrest trans woman
Ugandan police this week arrested a transgender woman who was threatened by an anti-gay mob that demanded the removal of LGBT people from their neighborhood. As of today, the trans woman, named Reagan, has been held by police for four days on homosexuality-related charges. This is her story, as told by Sandra Ntebi, chair of … Continue reading
As many as 12 awaiting gay-sex trials in Uganda
As a result of Uganda’s ongoing anti-gay crackdown, many LGBT people are in hiding and as many as a dozen Ugandans are currently awaiting trial on homosexuality-related charges. Three of them are in prison pending the outcome of their trials. Since President Yoweri Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act in February, an LGBT security hotline in … Continue reading
