We go to Kampala, Uganda, to discuss the impact of one of the most draconian anti-LGBTQ laws in the world, just signed by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. The new law makes same-sex relationships punishable by life imprisonment. Some LGBTQ people could receive the death sentence. Homophobia in Uganda is heavily influenced by American evangelists, who function as “exporters of hate,” notes Pepe Onziema, a Ugandan human rights activist, causing LGBTQ Ugandans to “end up as collateral damage.”

This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

This post was originally published on Radio Free.

Print Share Comment Cite Upload Translate Updates

APA

Democracy Now! | radiofree.asia (2024-05-19T04:56:37+00:00) » Ugandan Rights Activist: U.S. Conservatives Exported Anti-LGBTQ Hate That Led to “Kill the Gays” Law. Retrieved from https://radiofree.asia/2023/05/31/ugandan-rights-activist-u-s-conservatives-exported-anti-lgbtq-hate-that-led-to-kill-the-gays-law-5/.

MLA

" » Ugandan Rights Activist: U.S. Conservatives Exported Anti-LGBTQ Hate That Led to “Kill the Gays” Law." Democracy Now! | radiofree.asia - Wednesday May 31, 2023, https://radiofree.asia/2023/05/31/ugandan-rights-activist-u-s-conservatives-exported-anti-lgbtq-hate-that-led-to-kill-the-gays-law-5/

HARVARD

Democracy Now! | radiofree.asia Wednesday May 31, 2023 » Ugandan Rights Activist: U.S. Conservatives Exported Anti-LGBTQ Hate That Led to “Kill the Gays” Law., viewed 2024-05-19T04:56:37+00:00,<https://radiofree.asia/2023/05/31/ugandan-rights-activist-u-s-conservatives-exported-anti-lgbtq-hate-that-led-to-kill-the-gays-law-5/>

VANCOUVER

Democracy Now! | radiofree.asia - » Ugandan Rights Activist: U.S. Conservatives Exported Anti-LGBTQ Hate That Led to “Kill the Gays” Law. [Internet]. [Accessed 2024-05-19T04:56:37+00:00]. Available from: https://radiofree.asia/2023/05/31/ugandan-rights-activist-u-s-conservatives-exported-anti-lgbtq-hate-that-led-to-kill-the-gays-law-5/

CHICAGO

" » Ugandan Rights Activist: U.S. Conservatives Exported Anti-LGBTQ Hate That Led to “Kill the Gays” Law." Democracy Now! | radiofree.asia - Accessed 2024-05-19T04:56:37+00:00. https://radiofree.asia/2023/05/31/ugandan-rights-activist-u-s-conservatives-exported-anti-lgbtq-hate-that-led-to-kill-the-gays-law-5/

IEEE

" » Ugandan Rights Activist: U.S. Conservatives Exported Anti-LGBTQ Hate That Led to “Kill the Gays” Law." Democracy Now! | radiofree.asia [Online]. Available: https://radiofree.asia/2023/05/31/ugandan-rights-activist-u-s-conservatives-exported-anti-lgbtq-hate-that-led-to-kill-the-gays-law-5/. [Accessed: 2024-05-19T04:56:37+00:00]

rf:citation

» Ugandan Rights Activist: U.S. Conservatives Exported Anti-LGBTQ Hate That Led to “Kill the Gays” Law | Democracy Now! | radiofree.asia | https://radiofree.asia/2023/05/31/ugandan-rights-activist-u-s-conservatives-exported-anti-lgbtq-hate-that-led-to-kill-the-gays-law-5/ | 2024-05-19T04:56:37+00:00

To access this feature and upload your own media, you must Login or create an account.

Visual Text

Use this space to make a translated version of this post.

Add an image

Choose a Language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Basque Bengali Bulgarian Catalan Cambodian Chinese (Mandarin) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Fiji Finnish French Georgian German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Korean Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Mongolian Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Quechua Romanian Russian Samoan Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Tatar Telugu Thai Tibetan Tonga Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Welsh Xhosa