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KPFA News: The Return of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act, a.k.a., Hang-the-Gays Bill
Uganda's proposed Anti-Homosexuality Act is otherwise known as the Hang-the-Gays Bill because it would add the death penalty to prison sentences of 14 years to life that already exist in Ugandan law criminalizing homosexual acts. The bill engaged more Western press than any news story from Africa in 2009 and 2010, despite Obama's visit to Ghana, civil war in Somalia, a coup d'état in Niger, the UN report on genocide in Congo, and, intensifying competition between China and the West, led by the U.S., for Africa's oil and other natural resources. The bill finally seemed to have been defeated without a vote, by international outcry, but now it's back in play. KPFA's Ann Garrison has the story.
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Ugandan lesbian Val Kalende is internationally known for her courage in agreeing to the publication of her photograph, with an interview, in the Ugandan press.
UGANDA'S "HANG-THE-GAYS" BILL
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