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Uganda trial on published images of gay U.K. man having sex is postponed
ENTEBBE, Uganda — The trial in Uganda of a British man arrested after images of him having gay sex were published has been postponed until December.
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U.K. man in Uganda court after stolen gay sex images published
KAMPALA, Uganda — A British man faces a court hearing in Uganda on Monday following the publication of images from his stolen laptop of him having sex with another man.
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Prominent Ugandan LGBT activist charged with sodomy, held without bail
KAMPALA, Uganda– Samuel Ganafa, the executive director of Spectrum Uganda Initiatives and board chairperson of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), was arrested earlier this week on charges that he had sodomized another man and infected him with HIV.
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In rare move, Uganda president publicly tests for HIV
KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda’s president tested for HIV in public on Friday to encourage millions of untested people to check their status, a critical step to stemming the spread of the virus in the East African country.
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Scott Lively’s war on gays spans the U.S. to Uganda, Russia and beyond
Ask any LGBT rights activist to name the one person that they would pick as the community’s arch-nemesis, and the likely answer would be Scott Lively, a Springfield, Mass., evangelical pastor and part-time coffeehouse barista.
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Uganda archbishop: Gay bishops are ‘spiritual cancer’ that ‘infected’ Anglican church
KAMPALA, Uganda — Archbishop Stanley Ntagali, the head Uganda’s Anglican Church of Uganda, said that gay bishops are a “spiritual cancer” and do not belong in the Church.
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Judge allows landmark case against anti-gay religious leader to proceed
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — In a first-of-its kind case brought by a Ugandan LGBTI advocacy organization against a prominent U.S. anti-gay extremist, a federal judge on Wednesday ruled that persecution on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is a crime against humanity and that the fundamental human rights of LGBTI people are protected under international law.
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Canada kick starts funding for gay rights initiatives in Uganda
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada — A Canadian foreign affairs official acknowledged Friday that there are ongoing efforts to fund grassroots Ugandan LGBTQ advocacy organizations who are battling efforts by the Ugandan Parliament to pass that country’s proposed anti-homosexuality bill.
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David Kato remembered: A hero then, and a hero now
David Kato advocated for the freedom of LGBTI Ugandans and for their right to their natural born sexual orientation in a heightened climate of hostility and homophobia … Today on this second anniversary of the death of Kato, his friends, comrades, human rights defenders, and LGBTI people around the world are expressing their love, comforting each other and extolling the virtues of this great hero, with comments, memories and prayer for the peace of his dearly departed soul.
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Federal judge considers dismissal of suit against anti-gay pastor Scott Lively
A crowd of U.S. LGBT activists, holding signs outside the Hampden Federal Courthouse in Massachusetts, braved the early morning cold to support Uganda’s LGBTI community in the first case of its type on U.S. soil, where opening arguments commenced today in a motion for dismissal by anti-gay pastor Scott Lively.