LGBT News Uganda tabloid prints list of 200 ‘top’ gay people

When will people learn that you can't recruit people into homosexuality?

 

This is sad. And South Africa (government) does not even bat an eyelid towards it.

 

I hope Obama really cuts all aid to Uganda... I know it can be cruel, but Museveni needs to learn a lesson... or at least redirect the money towards LGBT groups in Uganda...
Reminds me of the Cold war... when tabloids here were naming people as Communists
Interestingly enough, Museveni stated he'll work with Russia, instead of the U.S. for aid...
France as well will be pulling aid from Uganda

 

I wonder how much power those people wield or are in opposing political parties. And how many are actually gay.

 

I feel like this is going to go in a similar direction to the Salem Witch hunt.

 

This is really bad. There's going to be violence against these people...

 

A backwards-ass country going even more backwards. Pretty messed up thing to do.

 

When it stops getting votes/money/influence.

 

Unfortunately, this is only the beginning. Once they're arrested they're going to be pressed into confessing any other gay people they might know. It's not even an exaggeration to say this is what it was like in Nazi Germany when they started to crack down on homosexuality with Section 175. The only major difference is that this law they passed is much more broad and even worse.

Considering how bigoted people in Uganda are against gay people, you can pretty much expect them to be tortured by the police, and when they end up in jail probably murdered either by the guards in the prison or the other prisoners. This is pretty much the fate of any gay person living in Uganda that gets fingered right now.

Even if by some stroke of luck the highly rigged court system doesn't produce a guilty verdict, you can expect that your career and life is over because the Ugandan media is going to out you to the rest of society. Expect vigilante justice at worst, and permanent unemployability at best.

My advice to any LGBT Ugandan right now is to get out. Even if that means abandoning everything and ending up somewhere else completely penniless, it's better than your current circumstances. If they discover you the chances of you escaping alive are slim.

Run like the Nazi's are coming, because they really are fucking coming.

 

I really hope that the rest of the world is looking more at political asylum for queer Ugandans than at cutting aid. Cutting aid punishes everyone, including the politically innocent (which is to say, those who don't support the measure). Comprehensive political asylum would be a more surgical approach.

 

I think offering Political Asylum is a good idea, though I don't think the US will do so, so long as the Republicans hold power in the house, and have the senate tangled in knots.

Maybe places like Canada and Sweden can help out? I think we have too many crazy people in the US right now, who would block this.

 

Venezuela has Asylum for the LGBTs in Uganda from Uganda's last anti-gay bill, also the U.N. set into place in '99 Asylum for LGBTs in Uganda... not sure if it is still active though.

 

There's an MSP over here that wants to get the wheels turning for offering asylum over here - MSP calls on UK to grant asylum to Ugandans outed by newspaper - PinkNews.co.uk · PinkNews.co.uk - Granted it's only for those outed by that paper, but it's a start.

 

My memory escapes me, but didn't we do something like this in the 50s during the Red Scare?

 

True, but I don't think there were legalised roving death squads on the hunt for communists in the States.

 

No wonder third world countries do so poorly. The government directs all their attention to hunting down harmless "law offenders" instead of ensuring a clean water supply with decent education. I can't believe they are putting most of their efforts into this law instead of improving the poor conditions of the country.

 

I heard the Neatherlands is ending aid over there. Let the domino effect begin!

 

Yeah, in the United States it was called the Lavender Scare. They somehow equated homosexuality to communism.