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Isobel Yeung travels to Uganda to meet some of the anti-gay leaders teaching intolerance to Uganda's youth, and uncovers disturbing ties between their message and the lessons that American. Uganda has passed one of the world's toughest anti-gay laws that calls for life imprisonment for anyone convicted of homosexuality. Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni signed the Anti-homosexuality. Under the previous bill people who identified as gay in Uganda risked life in prison Last month the Ugandan parliament passed an anti-homosexuality bill that meant anyone who identifies as LGBT.

Kampala, Uganda — In March , Uganda passed its anti-LGBTQ law, one of the harshest anti-homosexuality laws in the world, making life even more terrifying for so many of my queer siblings. In , the Constitutional Court upheld the Anti-Homosexuality Act, and now the fight for justice continues in Uganda’s Supreme Court.

Less than four months on from the Anti-Homosexuality Act being signed in Uganda, gay and trans people are starving, homeless and facing increasing persecution as violence, arrests and evictions. They complain about the harsh environment, about attacks from other refugees. As a large city, it has many gay and lesbian inhabitants. I have problems. But activists oppose the act.

The bill was signed into law in May For some refugees, these interviews can be jarring.

The Brutal Consequences of Uganda's Infamous Anti-Gay Law

Silence is erasure, dismissal, and invisibility—in short, it equals nonexistence. Langa also used the book Coming Out Straight: Understanding and Healing Homosexuality by Richard Cohen, a prominent self-proclaimed ex-gay psychotherapist who is unlicensed, in the presentations. This particular project involved 60 local and national groups in Uganda that were sub contracted by Oxfam including Pentecostal Assemblies of God.

It carried a potential life prison sentence. The report documents cases of human rights violations around privacy, association, discrimination, dignity and housing, and uncovered that mob-aided arrests have become commonplace as moral panic and violence continue to rise in the wake of AHA enactment. While the other girls spent their Sundays watching movies in the shared dorm, Ketifa and Sharon would stay in bed together.

Finally, the gay-friendly priest from Uganda donated the money. Police insisted that they should all be sent to Kakuma, as the law required. The IRCU attempted, and failed, to introduce anti-gay laws in due to international scrutiny — but this year Ugandan MPs were able to pass it. Later that month, he and Patrick left for Kakuma. Natah, a lesbian from Kampala, recalled breaking down in tears as she recounted how her mother disowned her and her father attacked her when they found out she was gay.

Could he direct her? De Langhe has been tasked with triaging between the two lagging processes. Over the phone, she described to Natah how the officers were coming for them—room by room, digging through their clothes, checking under the mattresses. We take these commitments seriously and are looking into the matter further. The law was repealed on technical grounds. De Langhe said she received a tip from the Ugandan priest who had ushered the first group of refugees to be careful about the newcomers.

Six months earlier, seven men wielding machetes had broken into their home and nearly killed him.

Langa, Ssempa and Museveni all insist Western groups have pushed homosexuality in Uganda. By Matt Jancer. Soon after, the principal called a meeting with Ketifa and two other gay Ugandans. Twelve square miles of people live cramped together in single-story huts. Four thin pews had been crafted from mismatching planks of wood.

If the UNHCR thought ending special treatment might put a swift end to the pull factor that was drawing Ugandans to Kenya, it was wrong.