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December 19, 2012
Uganda trans activist calls anti-gay preacher 'hooligan'

Anti-gay preacher Reverend Martin Ssempa launches hate-filled attack on transgender LGBT campaigner Pepe Onziema during TV talk show

A Ugandan transgender activist hit back at an extremist anti-gay preacher during a television debate, calling him a 'hooligan'.

LGBT campaigner Pepe Onziema was joined on Ugandan talk show Morning Breeze by Reverend Martin Ssempa - a pastor known for his Bible-thumping sermons against homosexuality in which he shows pornography in churches.

During the interview on the African nation's NBS TV channel, Ssempa launched into a furious rant about why gay sex is unnatural, using a banana to prove why the anus is for 'exit only'.

December 17, 2012
Uganda president says 'don't kill the gays'

President Yoweri Museveni is against execution of gay people despite bill calling for death penalty for 'aggravated homosexuality'

Uganda's president says gay people should not be killed, as the country debates passing a law which would give the death penalty for 'aggravated homosexuality’.

The Anti-Homosexuality Bill is scheduled for discussion in parliament and, if passed, men or women who have gay sex could be imprisoned for life.

Those guilty of ‘aggravated homosexuality’ include HIV positive people who have gay sex or ‘serial offenders’. They will be executed.

December 14, 2012
Uganda's Speaker fails to deliver 'kill the gays' Christmas present

Uganda's 'kill the gays' bill won't be passed by Christmas, country's prime minister distances himself from proposals, Pope blesses parlaimentary Speaker who is pushing for the law

Uganda's promise of passing a 'kill the gays' bill as a Christmas present looks unlikely to happen now as parliament enters its last day before it breaks until the New Year.

The proposed law would give life in jail for gay sex and even the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’.

However, despite the Anti-Homosexuality Bill listed under a ‘notice of business to follow’ on the Uganda parliamentary schedule for the last two weeks, it has steadily slipped further down the agenda.

December 14, 2012
Uganda's Speaker fails to deliver 'kill the gays' Christmas present

Uganda's 'kill the gays' bill won't be passed by Christmas, country's prime minister distances himself from proposals, Pope blesses parlaimentary Speaker who is pushing for the law

Uganda's promise of passing a 'kill the gays' bill as a Christmas present looks unlikely to happen now as parliament enters its last day before it breaks until the New Year.

The proposed law would give life in jail for gay sex and even the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’.

However, despite the Anti-Homosexuality Bill listed under a ‘notice of business to follow’ on the Uganda parliamentary schedule for the last two weeks, it has steadily slipped further down the agenda.

November 2, 2012
Ugandan MPs unite in support of reviving anti-gay bill

Uganda's parliament passes resolution supporting Speaker of the House Rebecca Kadaga calls for Anti-Homosexuality Bill revival

Ugandan members of parliament have passed a resolution in support of calls to revive the country's notorious anti-gay bill.

On Wednesday (31 October), Rebecca Kadaga, the Speaker of Uganda’s parliament, claimed that the Anti-Homosexuality Bill will soon be passed into law.

During the parliamentary session, politicians from across the political spectrum slammed homosexuality and claimed Western interference was a 'threat' to Uganda's cultural values.

November 2, 2012
Ugandan MPs unite in support of reviving anti-gay bill

Uganda's parliament passes resolution supporting Speaker of the House Rebecca Kadaga calls for Anti-Homosexuality Bill revival

Ugandan members of parliament have passed a resolution in support of calls to revive the country's notorious anti-gay bill.

On Wednesday (31 October), Rebecca Kadaga, the Speaker of Uganda’s parliament, claimed that the Anti-Homosexuality Bill will soon be passed into law.

During the parliamentary session, politicians from across the political spectrum slammed homosexuality and claimed Western interference was a 'threat' to Uganda's cultural values.