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UNAIDS Ambassador Says Eliminating Bans On Gay Sex Is Crucial To Fighting Spread of HIV, Even As Uganda Criminalizes Homosexuality Again

The new UNAIDS ambassador says that eliminating bans on same-sex relations is crucial to fighting the spread of HIV — a comment sure to provoke negative reactions from leaders of

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Uganda government to reintroduce bill imposing death penalty on homosexuals

Uganda’s government has said that it would revive a bill that would impose the death penalty on homosexuals it claims are “involved in promotion and recruitment” in the East African

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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are being criticized for meeting with Uganda’s Anti-Gay President

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West met with the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, on Monday. The pair have been in Uganda since Friday, while West reportedly films a music

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President Museveni of Uganda says the mouth is for eating, not oral sex

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni is warning citizens not to engage in “outsider” practices like oral sex because “the mouth is for eating.” “Let me take this opportunity to warn our

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Uganda’s government is obsessed with porn and policing morality

The Ugandan government’s obsession with enforcing morality and “protecting” the country’s cultural values has added a new twist: a nine-member, 2 billion shilling ($556,000) anti-pornographic control committee. The committee, which

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New Anti-Gay Legislation Drafted In Uganda

And it’s even more draconian than the Anti-Homosexuality Act, struck down earlier this year. A committee, comprising leading members of Uganda’s ruling party, has prepared a new draft of legislation

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Ugandan Court Quashes The Country’s Anti-Gay Law

Uganda’s constitutional court on Friday overturned tough new anti-gay laws that had been branded draconian and “abominable” by rights groups, saying they had been wrongly passed by parliament. The law