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Being gay in Uganda is front page news--scary

Posted by: ekscrunchy on Nov 2, 10 at 07:50 AM Posted in: Africa & the Middle East Tagged: Uganda Jump to last reply

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11666789

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-10-29-gay-ugandans-targeted-after-outing

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mcwomble on Nov 2, 10 at 08:07 AM

Have you compared the situation to Serbia?
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sf7307 on Nov 2, 10 at 01:32 PM

I didn't read the article, but my son used to live in Kampala and he had a woman friend who basically had to flee the country to avoid being arrested for being gay.
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christabir on Nov 2, 10 at 08:32 PM

Have you read Jeff Sharlet's book "The Family"? It's about the C Street religious Congresspeople. They are very involved in Uganda and their "kill the gays" bill there. It's disgusting - and worse that anyone from the US would push this.
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sf7307 on Nov 2, 10 at 10:15 PM

I haven't heard of the book, but I'll look for it now.
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christabir on Nov 3, 10 at 01:46 AM

The connection is not in the book. See this (about half way down):

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=120746516

Google the family Uganda maddow for some video.
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ekscrunchy on Jan 28, 11 at 06:31 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/world/africa/28uganda.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

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Grcxx3 on Jan 28, 11 at 09:31 PM

<<I didn't read the article, but my son used to live in Kampala and he had a woman friend who basically had to flee the country to avoid being arrested for being gay.>>

Sadly, this is also the case in Egypt. I know of a few people who were gay and they lived VERY discreet lives.

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