Interesting Quote: Frank Mugisha

Today's Uganda is a different story. As the director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, the country's leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights organisation, I have been on an advocacy trip in Europe and the US, encouraging the international community to speak out against the recently passed anti-homosexuality act, which myself and a core group of Ugandans who support human rights are now challenging in the constitutional court. As I prepare to return home, I know a law has been passed that will tyrannise my life and that of many Ugandans I know. The outlook is bleak. As a gay Ugandan, I know I am one of thousands. But as someone who has chosen to be "out" and is still living in Uganda, I am in a minority of fewer than 20 people.

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Human Rights Activists challenge Uganda's Anti-Gay Law

Frank Mugisha

Human rights activists are not having it with Uganda's Anti-Gay law. They have filed a lawsuit against the law, claiming that it violates the right to privacy, the freedom of be, and the right to associate.

The activists involved are Frank Mugisha from Sexual Minorities Uganda and trans activist Julian Pepe Onziema. There are straight politicians involved as well, so it shows proof that the distaste for this law goes beyond LGBT people.

I wish them luck in this quest and hope their safety is intact. To read their petition, please go here


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Interesting Quote: Frank Mugisha

“If the law is passed the way it is right now, I would go to jail, and I would be killed. And the fact that I’ve already said in Uganda that I’m gay, and that I’m an advocate for LGBT rights, that means I’m promoting homosexuality in Uganda, according to this bill. This legislation, if passed into law, it would automatically make me a serial offender and I would be sentenced to death.”

Frank is an activist, speaking against the Anti-Gay law in Uganda.

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