Protest outside the Ugandan High Commission in London: Photo by Russel Higgs.
Ariel Rubin reports on the lives of LGBT people in Uganda living under threat and fear. Ugandan homophobia, ironically, doubles as an expression of resistance to the West while being stoked and funded by conservative leaders and church clergy from the very same West. In a country where the notion of atheism is scoffed at as a joke, and a deep-seated fear pervades over the undue influence of Western decadence and liberalism, political elites have managed to introduce the perfect bill to distract much of the country from the entrenched problems like corruption and unaccountability.
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