Ugandan bill threatens jail for saying you're gay

[muriel_volestrangler]

Uganda's parliament is set to consider a draft law that criminalises anyone identifying as LGBTQ+, and threatens them with 10 years in jail.

The bill also threatens landlords who rent premises to gay people with a prison sentence.

Speaker Annet Anita Among used homophobic language as she addressed lawmakers after the bill was tabled.

It is the latest sign of rising homophobia in a country where homosexual acts are already illegal.

Campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said it believed that if the law was passed, Uganda would be the only African country to criminalise those who simply identify as LGBTQ+.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-64907237

(Note - British usage of "the bill was tabled" means it was introduced, not "put to one side".)

Even with awful existing homophobic laws, they want to get worse.

[LoisB]

1. I believe Uganda really bought into the evangelical b.s.

[Pete Ross Junior]

3. "Evangelical" BS?

Well OK it incidentally is.

But it being Uganda my guess is it has more to do with colonial era British ideas on the subject.

[LoisB]

4. I don't disagree. Evangelicals were behind Uganda's "kill the gays" bill a few years ago.

[dickthegrouch]

2. Everyone in the entire country needs to say "I am gay".