Uganda Passes Odious Anti-LGBT Law
The Council for Global Equality joins our colleagues in Uganda and around the world in condemning the adoption today of a harsh, anti-gay law that sentences LGBT Ugandans…
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Court Allows Lawsuit Against U.S. Pastor for Helping with Uganda Anti-Gay Bill
Repost from the Washington Blade A federal district court in Massachusetts announced on Wednesday it will allow a case to proceed against evangelical Christian Scott Lively for unlawfully…
Read moreVisiting Evangelist Assures Uganda’s LGBTI “Not all American Christian Preachers are Anti-Gay”
A visiting American evangelist, Pastor Joseph Tolton, has criticised Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Bill saying the conservative US evangelicals who backed the legislation “have lost the moral and cultural…
Read moreA global look at LGBT gains and loses
After a month of LGBT Pride celebrations with lots to celebrate at home and abroad we still have lots of work to do, Reed Karaim gives us an…
Read moreUganda’s Current Parliamentary Session Closed Without Vote on Anti-Homosexuality Bill
May 13, 2011 – After two years of dangerous discussion, the current parliamentary session in Uganda closed today without a vote on the “anti-homosexuality” bill. The coordinator of…
Read moreIs Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” Bill being used to blind the World?
Press Release from Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional law Uganda (CSCHRCL) Just days after opposition leader Colonel Kizza Besigye was deliberately blinded with pepper spray…
Read moreNPR reports on the Anti-Gay Atmosphere Permeating Uganda
Listen to Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s report on the anti-gay atmosphere permeating Uganda. The story includes audio from her interview with the “kill the gays” bill author David Bahati…
Read moreGays in Africa face growing persecution, activists say
repost from the Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post | Foreign Service Sunday, December 12, 2010; A12 KAMPALA, UGANDA – Persecution of gays is intensifying across Africa,…
Read moreRachel Maddow exposes the stereotypes and prejudice that animate David Bahati
The Council was pleased to see Rachel Maddow expose the stereotypes and prejudice that animate David Bahati, the parliamentarian who authored the “anti-homosexuality” bill in Uganda, on her…
Read moreSenate Foreign Relations Committee Approves Resolution Opposing Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2009
by Ty Cobb of Human Rights Campaign | As posted on HRC’s Back Story Blog Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a senate resolution (S. Res. 409)…
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