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Gay News: A newspaper in Uganda has been told to stop publishing lists of gays, after a previous list resulted in homophobic attacks.
By: Nigel Robinson
Paper published names of "top homos"
Paper published names of "top homos"
Uganda tabloid told to stop outing gays
1 November 2010
Rolling Stone – no relation to the American music magazine – had already published a list of the country’s “top homos” and urged its readers to hang them.
The publication of the list saw several of the people on the list being harassed and subjected to verbal and physical violence, with at least one lesbian couple being forced to go into hiding.
Now its editor, Giles Muhane, has issued another list of just ten gays and lesbians and asked his readers to report them to the police.
Following a request by gay rights group Sexual Minorities Uganda, a judge has ordered the paper to sup publishing the names, photographs and addresses of gay men and women.
Muhame told the AFP news agency that he would defy the ban and “publish more pictures but in a diplomatic way so that we can dodge the law”.
He insists that homosexuals in Uganda are out to “recruit” one million children by 2012, and are intent on destroying the “moral fabric” of the country.
Homosexual acts are illegal in Uganda.
A bill authorising the death penalty for homosexuality has currently been put on hold by the Ugandan Parliament following international outrage and opposition.
However, Muhame is confident that it will become law as soon as Uganda starts drilling for oil and becomes less dependent on the West for aid.
