Tag Archives: Africa

The Miracle of Anti-Gay Denial

Famed cartoonist Mark Fiore writes: Since Uganda’s anti-gay law was signed recently, it’s been amusing (and maddening) to watch various religious right characters scurry for cover. When nobody was watching, the holier-than-thou set have been visiting Uganda preaching their extreme anti-gay views. Now that people are appalled at Uganda’s life-in-prison-for-homosexuals law, the “evangelical” right-wing preachers are laying low or rewriting …

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KENYA: Parliament Approves Polygamy

Kenya’s Parliament has approval a bill that makes it legal for men for take multiple wives without getting the approval of their first wife. Female legislators are furious. Female MPs in Kenya have stormed out of a late-night parliamentary session in a row over the legalisation of polygamy. The law is intended to bring civil law, where a man is …

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US Suspends Some Aid To Uganda

In what Reuters calls the “first concrete move” by the United States since the passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, the CDC has cut some financial aid to Uganda. The U.S. had signaled it was reviewing its ties with the East African country after President Yoweri Museveni signed in legislation on February 24 that punishes gay sex with jail terms up …

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Barney Frank Slams Anti-Gay Americans For Exporting Their Hate To Uganda

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Democratic Republic Of The Congo May Follow Uganda’s Lead On Homosexuality

Anti-gay politicians are pushing the Democratic Republic of the Congo to follow Uganda’s lead on criminalizing homosexuality. Via Think Africa Press: Last December, Steve Mbikayi, an MP with the Parti Travailliste Congolais (PTC), introduced a draft bill to the Congolese National Assembly that would explicitly criminalise homosexuality. The DRC is one of the relatively few African countries in which homosexual …

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Tweet Of The Day – Frank Mugisha

Buzzfeed has the story: Human rights advocates and opposition politicians filed a lawsuit against Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act on Tuesday. The Anti-Homosexuality Act, which President Yoweri Museveni signed into law on February 24, imposes up to a life sentence for homosexuality and criminalizes advocating LGBT rights. The petitioners include activists Frank Mugisha of Sexual Minorities Uganda, trans activist Julian Pepe Onziema, …

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UGANDA: Gay Couple Arrested At Hotel

Appearing today on multiple African blogs: Barely two weeks after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed a bill banning homosexuality into law, two homosexuals have been caught in the act. According to eyewitnesses, the two gay men checked into an undisclosed hotel and within 15 minutes of checking in, sexual moans were heard from their room. The moaning was so loud …

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Mother Jones Profiles Scott Lively

Mother Jones today published a lengthy profile of anti-gay evangelist and hate group leader Scott Lively. While many of the article’s details might be familiar to longtime JMG readers, I encourage you to read the story. Here’s how it opens: In late February, when Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the nation’s harsh new anti-gay bill into law, he claimed the …

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Advertiser Backlash For Ugandan Paper

Last month a Ugandan tabloid published a list of that country’s alleged “top 200 homos.” Following a petition campaign by All Out, one of the paper’s major advertisers has pulled out. Via press release: Orange, a subsidiary of France Télécom, announced its decision to pull their advertising from the website of Red Pepper on Friday, after 77,329 All Out members …

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NIGERIA: Four Men Lashed In Court After Sharia Conviction Of Homosexuality

The Associated Press reports that four men were lashed in a Nigeria courtroom today after a Sharia tribunal convicted them of homosexual acts. The four were among dozens caught in a wave of arrests after Nigeria strengthened its criminal penalties for homosexuality with the new Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act in January. The men could face further violence in prison …

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Setback For Pastor Eat Da Poo Poo

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From Uganda’s Official News Agency

Apparently last week’s front-page story isn’t “persecution.”

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John Kerry Spoke To Uganda’s President

Via press release from the State Department: Secretary of State John Kerry spoke with Ugandan President Museveni yesterday via phone. Secretary Kerry expressed the United States’ deep disappointment in the Ugandan Government’s decision to enact the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The Secretary noted that the decision complicates the U.S. relationship with Uganda. He also raised U.S. concerns that this discriminatory law poses …

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Sweden: We Might Cut Aid To Uganda

Kenyan TV reports: The Swedish Government has indicated that it is considering a freeze on aid to Uganda days after the country signed the anti-gay Bill into Law. Sweden’s Finance Minister Anders Borg condemned the move saying it was unfortunate that Uganda passed the law noting it would strain relations between the two countries. Borg is on a regional tour …

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Scott Lively Speaks To NPR

Hate group leader Scott Lively appeared on NPR yesterday to defend his campaign against LGBT people around the world. An excerpt: MARTIN: Well, you know, this law, though, has been denounced by the United Nations, by U.S. officials, including the Secretary of State and the president. A number of European nations have said that they’re suspending aid to the country …

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UGANDA: World Bank Suspends $90M Loan Over Anti-Homosexuality Law

The World Bank has suspended a $90M loan to Uganda over the signing of the anti-homosexuality bill by President Yoweri Museveni. “We have postponed the project for further review to ensure that the development objectives would not be adversely affected by the enactment of this new law,” World Bank spokesman David Theis said in an email. Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni …

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Sen. Patrick Leahy Proposes Freezing Aid To Uganda Over Anti-Homosexuality Bill

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has proposed freezing US aid to Uganda over the enactment of that country’s brutal anti-homosexuality bill, which was signed last week by President Yoweri Museveni. “I am deeply concerned by the decision of President (Yoweri) Museveni of Uganda to sign into law the anti-homosexuality bill,” Senator Patrick Leahy, the most senior member of the chamber and …

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Elizabeth Perkins: Stop Scott Lively

Multiple Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated Weeds star Elizabeth Perkins tweeted me this afternoon to announce her donation to the Center For Constitutional Rights, which is suing Scott Lively on the behalf of Ugandan LGBT activists. Donations go to funding subpoenas, paying for expert witnesses, and for airfare to the United States for Ugandans to testify against Lively.  Longtime JMG readers …

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Scott Lively: I Commend Uganda

“While I respect the right of sovereign nations to legislate sexual morality according to their own cultural standards, I believe the Ugandan anti-homosexuality law takes the wrong approach in dealing with simple homosexuality (as opposed to pederasty and the other sub-categories of ‘aggravated homosexuality’ in the bill). [snip] That having been said, I commend Uganda for removing the death penalty …

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Ugandan Paper Names “200 Top Homos”

A Ugandan tabloid has published the names of 200 allegedly gay citizens, putting all of these people at the risk of being murdered. Which has happened before. Via the Associated Press: The Red Pepper tabloid published the names — and some pictures — of alleged homosexuals in a front-page story under the headline: “EXPOSED!” The list included prominent Ugandan gay …

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