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Box Turtle Bulletin alerts us that despite recent media reports that Uganda’s “kill gays” bill had been shelved, in fact it will be debated in the national parliament next week. The bill came into being after American evangelicals visited Uganda with claims that foreign homosexuals wanted to pay Uganda’s children to become gay. The controversial Anti Homosexuality bill is one …

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee today approved Rep. Barney Frank’s budget amendment that would discourage the granting of foreign aid to nations that engage in the “physical persecution” of their citizens on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identify. Michelle Garcia reports at the Advocate: The text of the amendment reads: “The Committee urges Treasury to advocate that …

According to U.S. embassy cables released by Wikileaks, Ugandan panelists at a 2009 United Nations seminar on human rights openly mocked activist David Kato as he attempted to deliver his speech denouncing his country’s still-pending “kill the gays” bill. Attending the meeting were the bill’s author, Ugandan MP David Behati, and Pastor Martin “Eat Da Poo Poo” Ssempa. Kato was …

“Even while admitting that the murder was ‘still being investigated,’ the Boston Globe was quick to lay the blame at Lively’s doorstep, who, along with other pro-family experts, visited Uganda in the spring of 2009 to raise awareness of the many social and health pathologies associated with homosexual behavior. The New York Times, the BBC and NPR all interviewed Lively …

Despite the bone-chilling temperatures, a large crowd of LGBT activists, allies, and local politicians stood in the slush and snow tonight near the United Nations to memorialize slain Ugandan activist David Kato, who now stands accused being responsible for his own murder by the Ugandan police. Speakers included the head of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, gay …

Aaaand here we have it. As predicted, the Ugandan police, who have a track record of beating and killing gay people, are now claiming that David Kato’s killer was forced to murder him. Because Kato was a dirty homosexual who wanted sex. Or so an “anonymous police source” is claiming to the press. From the Uganda Monitor: A man whom …

“Uganda is being murdered. The nation once called ‘The Pearl of Africa’ by Winston Churchill, a lush and beautiful country as fertile as the Nile Delta. The murderers are the lavender Marxists, the now-global network of sexual revolutionaries bent on remaking the entire world in their own perverted image, whose juggernaut has toppled even once mighty Britain, crushing under their …

Last week the disreputable Ugandan police insisted that David Kato’s murder was a mere robbery gone lethal and had nothing to do with his status as the nation’s most prominent LGBT activist. Now the police have changed their story after arresting a man they say has confessed to the killing. Which now isn’t robbery-related. “The prime suspect, Nsubuga Enock, was …

Tomorrow morning in Washington, DC, activists from GetEQUAL will picket the National Prayer Breakfast, where members of the infamously anti-gay and shadowy GOP congressional group The Family will gather with other politicians and lobbyists. The Family has been outed as supportive of Uganda’s gay death penalty bill. Details here.

The International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission is organizing a memorial vigil for murdered Ugandan activist David Kato. The starting point of the procession is not yet determined, but attendees will finish at the Ugandan embassy. I’ll post more details as they are known.

Word is that tonight Rachel Maddow will have a big exclusive story on slain Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato. I’ll post clips here immediately afterward. UPDATE: The Uganda story teased earlier today was obviously bumped for breaking developments in Egypt.

Ugandan citizen Brenda Namiggade was already being escorted to London’s Heathrow airport tonight when word came that Britain’s Home Office had granted a temporary reprieve to her deportation. This comes after gay activists earlier today served UK Home Secretary Theresa May with a petition bearing over 40,000 names. According to the BBC, some in the British government doubt that Namiggade …

Keeping with his theme of the inherent murderous violence of gay men, today repulsive anti-gay activist Scott Lively issued a statement raising the possibility that Uganda LGBT activist David Kato was killed by another gay man. Ugandan homosexual activist David Cato was murdered yesterday in his home. To my knowledge, no one has been arrested for the crime so the …

LGBT activists staged a vigil for David Kato outside of London’s Uganda High Commission today, after which they delivered a 40,000-name petition to UK Home Secretary Theresa May, demanding that Britain not send lesbian asylum-seeker Brenda Namigadde back to Uganda. Namigadde says she fears that she too will be murdered if forced to return. Add your name to the petition …

Hundreds gathered at the funeral for slain Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato today, where fights broke out after the pastor conducting the ceremony raged against homosexuals. “The world has gone crazy,” the pastor told the congregation through a microphone. “People are turning away from the scriptures. They should turn back, they should abandon what they are doing. You cannot start …

“The leadership of Exodus international and its member ministries are grieved over the tragic murder of Ugandan gay activist David Kato and we send our sincerest condolences to his family & friends. [snip] Exodus International calls on President & Mrs. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to lead their government into an era of treating all of their neighbors as they would like …

“I am deeply saddened to learn of the murder of David Kato. In Uganda, David showed tremendous courage in speaking out against hate. He was a powerful advocate for fairness and freedom. The United States mourns his murder, and we recommit ourselves to David’s work. At home and around the world, LGBT persons continue to be subjected to unconscionable bullying, …

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has issued a lengthy condemnation of the murder of Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato. We are profoundly saddened by the loss of Ugandan human rights defender David Kato, who was brutally murdered in his home near Kampala yesterday. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends, and colleagues. We urge Ugandan authorities to quickly …

As I noted here, Exodus International board of directors member Don Schmierer was part of Scott Lively’s three-day conference in Uganda, where Schmierer advised Ugandans on how to turn their gays kids straight. But don’t go blaming David Kato’s murder on HIM, he was only trying to help. In fact, HE is the victim here. On Thursday, Don Schmierer, one …

Yesterday Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato was bludgeoned to death in his home just weeks after his photo was emblazoned on the cover of a local newspaper with the accompanying headline “HANG THEM!” The newspaper articles and Kato’s murder came after months of international outrage over Uganda’s proposed and still-pending “kill gays” bill, legislation that orders the death penalty for …