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Uganda paper stirs up anti-gay campaign
Red Pepper
A Ugandan tabloid is stirring up an anti-gay vigilante campaign.
The tabloid Red Pepper has recently outed forty gay men and women. In an article entitled "Top Homos in Uganda named", the paper lists their names, addresses, and physical descriptions and, in some cases, their photographs and HIV status
The people named by the paper include individuals from all walks of life, from lawyers to restaurant workers.
“This is a killer dossier,” the report reads, “a heat-pounding and sensational masterpiece that largely exposes Uganda's shameless men and unabashed women that have deliberately exported the western evils to our dear and sacred society.
“They have been influential in spreading the gay and lesbian vices in schools to kill the morals of our lovely kids!!"
The report follows on from another anti-gay vigilante campaign organised by the same newspaper in 2007.
Uganda has a poor history of gay rights. There is a strong anti-gay feeling in the country, and in February the US State Department found the Ugandan government guilty of violence against LGBT people. Homosexuality is illegal, and carries a potential life sentence.
Only last year, as reported by Pride Life, Uganda’s Minister of State for Ethics declared that homosexuality was a threat to civilisation.
