https://www.reuters.com/w .. tq-2023-03-21/

KAMPALA, March 21 (Reuters) - Uganda's parliament passed a law on Tuesday making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ, handing authorities broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence.

More than 30 African countries, including Uganda, already ban same-s*x relations. The new law appears to be the first to outlaw merely identifying as lesbian, gay, bis*xual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ), according to rights group Human Rights Watch.

Supporters of the new law say it is needed to punish a broader array of LGBTQ activities, which they say threaten traditional values in the conservative and religious East African nation.

In addition to same-s*x intercourse, the law bans promoting and abetting homos*xuality as well as conspiracy to engage in homos*xuality.

Violations under the law draw severe penalties, including death for so-called aggravated homos*xuality and life in prison for gay s*x. Aggravated homos*xuality involves gay s*x with people under the age of 18 or when the perpetrator is HIV positive, among other categories, according to the law.

"Our creator God is happy (about) what is happening ... I support the bill to protect the future of our children," lawmaker David Bahati said during debate on the bill.

"This is about the sovereignty of our nation, nobody should blackmail us, nobody should intimidate us."

The legislation will be sent to President Yoweri Museveni to be signed into law.

Frank Mugisha, a prominent Ugandan LGBTQ activist denounced the legislation as draconian.

"This law is very extreme and draconian ... it criminalises being an LGBTQ person, but also they are trying to erase the entire existence of any LGBTQ Ugandan," he said.

Museveni has not commented on the current proposal but he has long opposed LGBTQ rights and signed an anti-LGBTQ law in 2013 that Western countries condemned before a domestic court struck it down on procedural grounds.

In recent weeks, Uganda authorities have cracked down on LGBTQ people after religious leaders and politicians alleged students were being recruited into homos*xuality in schools.

This month, authorities arrested a secondary school teacher in the eastern district of Jinja over accusations of "grooming of young girls into unnatural s*x practices".

She was subsequently charged with gross indecency and is in prison awaiting trial.

The police said on Monday they had arrested six people accused of running a network that was "actively involved in the grooming of young boys into acts of sodomy".

supreme excellence

Mental health is back on the agenda!

At first I was like some more religious bullsh*t then I read this
"The police said on Monday they had arrested six people accused of running a network that was "actively involved in the grooming of young boys into acts of sodomy".

Die slow mothafu*kas.

good....

Good sh*t

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They'll be blessed. Meanwhile America about to go into poverty and be taken over because they wanting to groom children to be gay. Natural disasters and some more coming. BUT BUT BUT IT DOESNT AFFECT ME. oh yes it does.

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even c*ckroaches smart enough not to be gay

US about to establish a coup

Terrible news for the LGBTQ kids there coming up.

Your entire existence just became illegal overnight and you're powerless to move yourself somewhere where you can be free and live with dignity.

It's a slippery slope when politicians start passing bills to appease their God.

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Bruh was so serious. The West needs to stop pushing the homos*xual agenda on Africans. This ain’t Babylon.

Dude told me yesterday that me not being down with Homo sh*t was because of my WHITE christian religion

LMAO

Tlatoani said Suck for the LGBTQ kids there coming up. Your entire existence just became illegal overnight and you're powerless to move yourself somewhere where you can be free and live with dignity.

its a mental health problem

Stupendamatic said It's a slippery slope when politicians start passing bills to appease their God.

n*gga if u dont go sit yo hoe a*s down with that f*g**t a*s agent as your avy

They aint in America, they can pass a law based on whatever the hell they want

You run in here to cap for the f*g**ts cuz u look up to one

That Dude said Bruh was so serious. The West needs to stop pushing the homos*xual agenda on Africans. This ain’t Babylon.

Didn't mean to slap.

OP had to search for that picture, it wasn't in the link

Tlatoani said Suck for the LGBTQ kids there coming up. Your entire existence just became illegal overnight and you're powerless to move yourself somewhere where you can be free and live with dignity.

This dude always talking about children's s*xuality. We need this pedo removed.

Boogie1790 said n*gga if u dont go sit yo hoe a*s down with that f*g**t a*s agent as your avy They aint in America, they can pass a law based on whatever the hell they want You run in here to cap for the f*g**ts cuz u look up to one

Tlatoani said Suck for the LGBTQ kids there coming up. Your entire existence just became illegal overnight and you're powerless to move yourself somewhere where you can be free and live with dignity.

you sound like a pedophile

I know y'all BX goons who don't leave a one mile radius of your basement think this makes sense, but it just means people have to be gay in private over there now. Never had banning or shunning or trying to change gay people made it so there are actually less gay people and it's been well documented that gay people have been around since people started recording history. But whatever, enjoy your pointless victory I guess

Good!

It should be considered a mental illness, but I see why they're being hard on people who identify as LGBTQ+. They don't want that mentality affecting the impressionable youth in Uganda. The government is doing what they're supposed to do, and that's to protect the morality and integrity of the Ugandan people.

LGBTQ is like cancer, a mental illness that can spread, uncontrollably. Anything that f*ghts against nature can be considered evil.

Countries should follow