Activists protest outside the Ugandan Embassy over Uganda’s parliamentary Anti-Homosexuality Act on April 25, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Last month, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed off on one of the most draconian pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in the world.
Homosexuality has been illegal in Uganda, a conservative East African nation, since 1950 , but Ugandans now face life imprisonment for gay sex. Anyone attempting to have same-sex relations could be sentenced to 10 years in prison. Advocates for the rights of LGBTQ+ people, including human rights campaigners or those funding advocacy organizations, could face up to […]
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