The British gay play producer who was deported from Uganda for being ‘undesirable’ has said the majority of Africans are not homophobic.

David Cecil was originally arrested in September last year after the play, which tells the story of a gay businessman murdered by his colleagues, was performed in private theaters. The charges were later dropped.

On 6 February, Cecil was rearrested and locked up for five days before being deported to the UK.

A British university is stopping accreditation for courses at a Ugandan university in response to the proposed law jailing and possibly killing gay people.

The University of Buckingham has announced it is ‘increasingly concerned’ about Uganda’s human rights record, and wanted the country’s Victoria University to include a clause that no person would be discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation.

Facebook has removed an anti-gay page aimed at outing Ugandans who were preceived or rumored to be gay and could be persecuted under the law.

The page, called 'Kampala Exposed: Facts and Rumors', was brought to wider attention by a Change.org petition started by the LGBT organization Freedom and Roam Uganda.

The 2013 David Kato Vision & Voice Award has been awarded to Ali Erol, a leading LGBT activist in Turkey.

Inspired by David Kato's work, the award recognizes those who strive to uphold sexual rights for LGBTI people. It is named after human rights activist David Kato, who was murdered in his home in Kampala, Uganda on 26 January 2011.

The award was presented to Erol today 29 November at Pan-African Parliament in South Africa.

The now defunct Rolling Stone’s tabloid published a notorious article in 2010, entitled: ’100 Pictures of Uganda’s Top Homos Leak’ with a picture of a noose and the further caption – ‘HANG THEM!’

The Article used pictures including a hangman’s noose to out gays and lesbians in Uganda, causing untold harm, including ostracizing, beatings and arrests of some Ugandans, while others fled the country.

Ugandan court has convicted four pastors, a businesswoman and a musician for conspiring to tarnish a famous Pastor's reputation by accusing him of sodomzing several boys at his church.

The Pastor, Robert Kayanja, is the founder and senior pastor of the Miracle Centre Cathedral, a megachurch in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. He is sometimes cited as one of the most powerful people in the country.

In 2009, a nation-wide scandal erupted when Kayanja was accused of sexually abusing two teenage male church members.

A British man who produced a play about being gay in Uganda is in jail.

David Cecil is being charged with ‘disobeying lawful orders’ from the Uganda Media Council, which says he staged the play in Uganda’s capital Kampala last month, reports the Associated Foreign Press. 

Police have arrested a Uganda bar owner for staging the play The River and The Mountain which features a man coming out as gay.

David Cecil, owner of Tilapila Bar in Kampala was accused of showing a ‘gay themed play’.

Another bar has also shown the play previously and it is been confirmed that the owner there has also been questioned by the Kampala police.

The River and the Mountain features a storyline about a gay businessman living in a homophobic country.

Activists around the world have condemned a raid by Ugandan police on a gay rights workshop in Kampala, warning harrassment of LGBT people by authorities is becoming worryingly common.

Police interrupted the meeting at the Esella Country Hotel on the outskirts of the African capital on Monday (18 June) and questioned people in attendance who included activists from Canada, Kenya and Rwanda.

Uganda’s Catholic bishops are calling for the revival of the notorious ‘kill the gays’ bill, despite previously opposing it.

The Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which calls for the execution of gays in the African country, was effectively shelved last year by the government, following sustained pressure from international donor countries.

Despite repeated claims to the contrary, including some unfortunate mainstream reporting, the last version of the bill contained the death penalty in some circumstances.

Uganda’s ‘kill the gays’ bill is returning to the country’s parliament this week for debate, despite reports it was off the table.

The anti-homosexuality bill of 2009 includes the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’ and harsh prison terms for gay and lesbian sex.

Reports state that a meeting is scheduled for this week which will examine parliamentary business for the next session and will look at when the bill can be debated.