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Gay News: A Ugandan gay rights activist has been killed after he was outed in a national newspaper
David Kato
Ugandan gay rights activist is murdered
David Kato was beaten with a hammer in his home in Mukona at approximately 2pm on 26 Jnauary, according to the
Kato was one of 100 gay men and women who were outed last year by Rolling Stone newspaper (no relation to the
In the first of several articles entitled “100 pictures of
Another headline read “Hang them! They are after our kids!”
Earlier this month, Kato, who claimed to have received death threats, successfully secured an injunction banning the newspaper from publishing any further names.
Police have informed Kato’s lawyers that they have the registration number of the murderer’s car and are looking for him.
Asked by Reuters to comment on the murder, Giles Muhane, the editor of Rolling Stone, said that his paper had not intended for gay people to be attacked.
“If he has been murdered, that’s bad and we pray for his soul,” he said.
“There has been a lot of crime. It may not be because he is gay. We want the government to hang people who promote homosexuality, not for the public to attach them. We said that they should be hanged, not stoned or attacked.”
In a statement Frank Mugish, the Executive Director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, said: “No form of intimidation will stop our cause. The death of David will only be honoured when the struggle for justice and equality is won. David is gone and many of us will follow, but the struggle will be won.”
Homosexuality is illegal in
