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Category: Uganda

  • Global Resistance to Anti-gender Opposition

    Rating: Transsupportive, Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice, October 11, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary See also: Executive Summary, Overview Global Resistance to Anti-gender Opposition LGBTQI+ Activism in Colombia, India, Kenya, Peru, and Serbia September 2023 Purpose and Gratitude In May 2022, we, two researchers with long histories of activism,…

  • Emergency: LGBT+ Ugandans in danger

    Ugandan lawmakers have approved some of the world’s harshest anti-LGBT+ legislation. Rating: Transsupportive, AllOut, May 31, 2023 (PDF archive)

  • Texas and Uganda pass new anti-gay laws

    Lawmakers in Texas passed a law on Sunday banning “public performance of sexual conduct” which prohibits “prurient” drag and “accessories or prosthetics that enhance the female or male form” in public, or anywhere children might see it. It is “part of a broader effort in Texas and other conservative states to crack down on drag…

  • Yoweri Museveni: Gender Villain

    President of Uganda who signed law providing death penalty for homosexuality.

  • Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTQ law including death penalty

    Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has signed one of the world’s toughest anti-LGBTQ laws, including the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”, drawing Western condemnations and risking sanctions from aid donors. Reuters, May 29, 2023 (PDF archive)

  • There Is No Place for Anti-Trans Agendas in the UN

    We express grave concerns over the series of harmful statements made and actions taken by the current UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem. To our dismay, the Special Rapporteur has persistently advocated for additional obstacles and conditions to legal gender recognition that undermine the rights protections of…

  • Ugandan LGBTQ activist readies for the fight of his life

    When Frank Mugisha came out two decades ago, being gay in Uganda could be lonely and uncomfortable, but it was rarely a matter of life and death. Reuters, April 20, 2023 (PDF archive)