Uganda Gay Rights

Queen Is 'No Gay Rights Activist'

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 11.03.2013 | UK

A speech due to be given by the Queen heralded as a landmark for women and gay rights across Commonwealth countries has been criticised by LGBT campai...

Jessica Elgot

Gay And Lesbian Asylum Seekers 'Feel Forced To Show Sex Films To Prove Sexuality To UK Border Agency'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jessica Elgot | Posted 04.02.2013 | UK

Gay asylum seekers are going to extreme lengths to prove their sexual orientation, filming themselves having sex and describing intimate encounters, t...

'We Cannot Accept Promotion Of Homosexuality As If It Is A Good Thing'

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 17.12.2012 | UK

The president of Uganda has said gay people should NOT be killed or persecuted, as parliament considers an Anti-Homosexuality Bill, but warned homosex...

Call Me Kuchu: A Call for Tolerance and Understanding in Uganda

Kevin Childs | Posted 03.01.2013 | UK Entertainment
Kevin Childs

The world has a new villain: of all the Leviticus-wielding, rights bruising, conscienceless crusaders in Catherine Fairfax Wright's and Malika Zouhali Worrall's inspirational new release Call Me Kuchu.

What if It Was Illegal for You to Be You?

John Barrowman | Posted 02.09.2012 | UK
John Barrowman

Can you imagine what it would be like to wake up one morning to discover that it was suddenly illegal for you to be you? That the law said because you had blue eyes, or were short or because you wrote with your left hand you could go to jail. The character I'm best known for - Captain Jack in Torchwood - spends his life fighting every kind of threat to humanity you could think of. That's all fantasy, of course, but this is real. People are being killed and many, many more live in daily fear for their lives. And the threat comes from something that is much harder to fight than fictional aliens - homophobia based on prejudice, hatred and ignorance.

Joseph Kony Is Africa's Osama Bin Laden, Says Defence Boss

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 29.05.2012 | UK

The hunt for Joseph Kony is for Africa what the hunt for Osama Bin Laden was for America, according to an African defence tycoon. Ivor Ichikowitz, ...

A More Comprehensive International Response to Gay Rights Violations is Needed

Benjamin Halfpenny | Posted 18.04.2012 | UK Politics
Benjamin Halfpenny

In the current state of diplomatic affairs, Britain may complain about Uganda's gay rights record and threaten some reduction in aid. Yet to be truly serious on aid within a wider concern for human rights, Britain and the US must consider the long-term international method of response and manoeuvre.

Gay Rights: Are We Still Wrong?

Rachel Preece | Posted 18.01.2012 | UK Politics
Rachel Preece

One of the best-known pieces of LGBT literature is Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues. The novel follows lesbian Jess Goldberg and her difficulties...

Will Kenya Airways Deport Tortured Gay Ugandan?

Joe Mirabella | Posted 17.10.2011 | UK
Joe Mirabella

In less than 24 hours, more than 2000 people have joined a petition campaign started on Change.org calling on the Home Office to halt the deportation of Robert Segwanyi to Uganda, where he was imprisoned and tortured for being gay.