Tag Archives: Uganda

UGANDA: Gay Activist David Kato Murdered After Outing By Local Paper

Weeks after his face was outed on the cover of a Uganda newspaper, LGBT activist David Kato has been found beaten to death in his home. “David Kato’s death is a tragic loss to the human rights community,” said Maria Burnett, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. “David had faced the increased threats to Ugandan LGBT people bravely and …

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MASSACHUSETTS: Convicted Sex Offender Arrested At Scott Lively’s Coffee House

Police have arrested a convicted child molester working at the Springfield, Massachusetts coffeehouse of infamous anti-gay activist Scott Lively, who runs the business as a Christian outreach to local teenagers. A local man who served as manager of the Holy Grounds Coffee Shop on State Street — a cafe operated by anti-gay pastor Scott Lively that serves free coffee and …

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Boston Globe Profiles Scott Lively

The Boston Globe has published a lengthy profile of Pink Swastika author Scott Lively, who is attempting to reinvent himself as some kind of savior to the homeless of Springfield, Massachusetts. An excerpt: Scott Lively says he is toning down his antigay rhetoric and shifting his focus to helping the downtrodden. And he’s found a home and a receptive audience …

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UGANDA: Court Bans Media From Outings

A Ugandan court has ruled that local media may not name “suspected homosexuals” and has awarded damages to those named by Rolling Stone, a newspaper unrelated to the U.S.-based music title. The request for the ban was filed by three people from gay rights group, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), whose pictures and towns of residence were published in a previous …

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UGANDA: Pastor Martin “Eat Da Poo Poo” Ssempa Charged With Blackmail

Uganda’s notorious Pastor Martin Ssempa, who infamously tells national audiences that the preferred sexual practice of gay men is eating human feces, has been charged with attempting to blackmail another pastor. Ssempa is accused of offering to pay another man to say that he had “been sodomized” by Pastor Robert Kayanja. A total of eight anti-gay Christian activists have been …

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More Maddow Vs. David Bahati

Last night Rachel Maddow concluded her interview with Uganda’s David “Kill The Gays” Behati. Maddow also interviews the author of a book about the GOP’s secretive Christianist group, The Family.

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Rachel Maddow Vs. Uganda’s “Kill The Gays” Bill Author David Bahati

Tonight the author of Uganda’s “Kill The Gays” bill, David Behati, appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show where Maddow repeatedly called Behati out on his ridiculous claims about wealthy American homosexuals “paying Ugandan schoolchildren to become gay.” Behati’s bill came about after The Family, a powerful GOP-based lobby of anti-gay Christianists, visited Uganda to preach against homosexuality. Watch this.

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“Hang Them”: Uganda Paper Publishes Names And Photos Of “Top 100 Homos”

CBS News today picked up on the story of a Uganda newspaper publishing the names and photos of the country’s so-called “top 100 homos.” The yellow banner under the headline reads “Hang Them!” In the days since it was published, at least four gay Ugandans on the list have been attacked and many others are in hiding, according to rights …

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Anti-Sam Brownback Ad Notes His Connection To Uganda’s “Kill Gays” Bill

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TRAILER: Uganda – Killing In The Name

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Uganda Beheading Story A Hoax

Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin reports today that yesterday’s story about the beheading of a Ugandan LGBT activist was an apparent hoax planted by an anti-gay activist. Hit the BTB link for exhaustive examination of the scam.

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UGANDA: Gay Activist Found Beheaded

The severed head of LGBT activist Pasikali Kashusbe has been found in a Uganda latrine. Via Box Turtle Bulletin: Judith Nabakooba, a police spokesperson, identified the head as that of Pasikali Kashusbe, one of the workers on Kigggundu’s farm and a member of Integrity Uganda. Pasikali and his partner Abbey are youth workers with Integrity Uganda charged with the responsibility …

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Family Research Council Responds

The following statement was just sent to the Washington Post by the Family Research Council. Inaccurate internet reports have been circulating indicating that the Family Research Council lobbied “against” a congressional resolution condemning a bill proposed in Uganda. The Uganda bill would have provided for the death penalty for something called “aggravated homosexuality.” Unfortunately, those spreading these false rumors deliberately …

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WaPo Picks Up My FRC Post

The Washington Post’s David Weigel has picked up my post about the Family Research Council lobbying against a congressional condemnation of Uganda’s “kill gays” bill. Gay City News and blogger Joe My God dug into the lobbying records of the Family Research Council and found that among the “Civil Rights/Civil Liberties” issues that the FRC’s Tom McCluskey and David Christensen …

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CHRISTIAN LOVE: Family Research Council Lobbied Congress Against Resolution Denouncing Uganda’s Kill Gays Bill

It’s time for the Southern Poverty Law Center to reclassify the Family Research Council as an official hate group, not merely anti-gay as they are now listed. According to the FRC’s official lobbying report for the first quarter of 2010, they paid two of their henchmen $25,000 to lobby Congress against approving a resolution denouncing Uganda’s plan to execute homosexuals. …

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Uganda’s Rev. Martin Ssempa, Remixed

Uganda’s Rev. Martin Ssempa, who wants the death penalty for homosexuality, has been showing extreme fetish porn to horrified audiences as proof that all gay men need to put to death. And as things goes in YouTube-land, Ssempa has been remixed. Some will find this hilarious, some definitely will not. NSFW! SRSLY!

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TONIGHT: Missionaries Of Hate

Tonight at 10PM CurrentTV will air Missionaries Of Hate, a documentary about anti-gay American evangelicals working in Africa to further the brutalization of LGBT people there. Just as it was during the life and times of Harvey Milk, the movement against homosexuality in Uganda is being led by a group of conservative Christian evangelicals. And the arguments they’re using are …

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Author Of Uganda’s “Kill Gays” Bill May Be Banned From The UK

Ugandan member of parliament David Bahati, the sponsor of his government’s still-pending “kill gays” legislation, may be banned from entering the UK. According to the Guardian, civil servants in the Foreign Office, the Department for International Development and the Borders Agency are drawing up plans to block Mr Bahati’s visa if he does not drop the bill. A senior government …

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Friendly Voices – Desmond Tutu

“Uganda’s parliament is debating legislation that would make homosexuality punishable by life imprisonment, and more discriminatory legislation has been debated in Rwanda and Burundi. These are terrible backward steps for human rights in Africa. Our lesbian and gay brothers and sisters across Africa are living in fear. “And they are living in hiding — away from care, away from the …

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ABC Nightline Covers Uganda’s “Kill Gays” Bill And Pastor Martin Ssempa

Last night Nightline delivered an excellent report on the situation in Uganda, interviewing the genocidal Pastor Martin Ssempa and his American evangelical accomplice Scott Lively. Watch this.

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