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Gay News: A Ugandan newspaper has published the names, photos and addresses of 100 gay men and women under the headline "Hang them".
By: Nigel Robinson
Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda
Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda
Ugandan newspaper tells people to hang gays
21 October 2010
The article appeared earlier this month in the weekly Rolling Stone newspaper (no relation to the American magazine), and follows a similar article in Red Pepper magazine last year entitled “Top Homos in Uganda named”.
The Rolling Stone article claims that the gay community is aiming to “recruit” one million children by 2012 and that parents face heartbreak “as homos raid schools”.
The article list personal details, including the addresses, of 100 gay men and women underneath the headline “Hang them! They are after our kids!”
Defending the article, Giles Muhame, editor of Rolling Stone, said that he was doing his duty in exposing the evil in our society.
Speaking to the Guardian, he said: “Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda but nobody is taking action against these people. They are recruiting new members among our kids and destroying the moral fabric of our country…
“Other countries have capital punishment to stop drug traffickers we should have the same for homosexuals.”
Gay rights artists in Uganda initially chose to ignore the story, for fear of giving publicity to the newspaper which has a circulation of only 2,000.
However, after one of the named lesbians was unable to leave her house after it was stoned, and others suffered harassment, they are now considering taking legal action.
Uganda’s media council has since suspended the publication of Rolling Stone, but only because the newspaper was not registered. The paper will resume publishing next week.
Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda, and the penalty for having gay sex is life imprisonment.
The progress through the Ugandan Parliament of a bill authorising the death penalty for homosexuality has currently been put on hold following international outrage and opposition.
