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'''Sexual Minorities Uganda''' (SMUG) is an umbrella non-governmental organization based in [[Kampala]], Uganda. [[Victor Mukasa]] and [[Sylvia Tamale]] were among the founders. SMUG is headed by executive director [[Frank Mugisha]] and deputy director [[Pepe Julian Onziema]], who both took office in 2007. Advocacy officer [[David Kato]] was the advocacy and litigation officer until his murder in January 2011. SMUG advocates for the protection and promotion of human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Ugandans.
{{Infobox organization
| name = Sexual Minorities Uganda
| formation = 2004
| logo = File:Sexual_Minorities_Uganda_logo.webp
| leader_title = Executive Director
| leader_name = [[Frank Mugisha]]
| board_of_directors = [[Pepe Julian Onziema]]
| website = https://smuginternational.org/
}}

'''Sexual Minorities Uganda''' ('''SMUG''') is an umbrella [[non-governmental organization]] based in [[Kampala]], Uganda. It has been described as the country's leading [[gay rights]] advocacy group.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dahir |first=Abdi Latif |date=2023-04-20 |title='We Will Hunt You': Ugandans Flee Ahead of Harsh Anti-Gay Law |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/world/africa/uganda-anti-gay-bill-lgbtq.html |access-date=2023-04-24 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

One of their achievements include director [[Pepe Julian Onziema]] leading a coalition of 55 civil society organizations to overturn the [[Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014|Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |date=October 4, 2019 |title=Ugandan LGBT activist says threats and violence won't stop the fight for civil rights |work=[[CBC Radio]] |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/trump-s-odds-for-re-election-house-hippos-are-back-empire-strikes-door-bahamas-tourism-after-dorian-more-1.5306553/ugandan-lgbt-activist-says-threats-and-violence-won-t-stop-the-fight-for-civil-rights-1.5306555 |access-date=May 16, 2023}}</ref>

== Organisation ==
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Founders included [[Victor Mukasa]] and [[Sylvia Tamale]]. Executive director [[Frank Mugisha]] and deputy director [[Pepe Julian Onziema]] both took office in 2007. Advocacy officer [[David Kato]] was the advocacy and litigation officer until his murder in January 2011. SMUG advocates for the protection and promotion of human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Ugandans.


A network composed of several member organizations was founded in 2004:
A network composed of several member organizations was founded in 2004:
* Icebreakers Uganda, concerned with LGBT research and youth issues.
* Icebreakers Uganda, concerned with LGBT research and youth issues.
* [[Freedom & Roam Uganda]], dedicated to the rights of lesbian, transgender, and intersex women
* [[Freedom & Roam Uganda]], dedicated to the rights of lesbian, transgender, and intersex women.
* Spectrum Uganda, focused on the health and well-being of LGBT people in Uganda (co-founded by [[John "Longjones" Abdallah Wambere]])
* Spectrum Uganda, focused on the health and well-being of LGBT people in Uganda (co-founded by [[John "Longjones" Abdallah Wambere]]).
*Transgender Initiative Uganda addresses transgender issues.
*Transgender Initiative Uganda addresses transgender issues.


==History==
==History==
[[Victor Mukasa]], a trans man activist, founded Sexual Minorities Uganda on 3 March 2004 in Kampala at the Kaival restaurant and Internet cafe. The earliest members included Val Kalende. Kamuhangire.E and David Kato, who were among the first board members. Members of SMUG achieved controversy through their activism and legal troubles for much of the organization's history, and the profile of the organization in the later-2000s due to the rise of homophobic populism in the country and the introduction of the [[Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill]] in the [[Parliament of Uganda|Parliament]] by [[David Bahati]].
[[Victor Mukasa]], a [[trans man]] activist, founded Sexual Minorities Uganda on 3 March 2004 in Kampala at the Kaival restaurant and Internet cafe. The earliest members included [[Val Kalende]]. Kamuhangire.E and David Kato, who were among the first board members. Members of SMUG achieved controversy through their activism and legal troubles for much of the organization's history, and the profile of the organization in the later-2000s due to the rise of homophobic populism in the country and the introduction of the [[Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill]] in the [[Parliament of Uganda|Parliament]] by [[David Bahati]].


The Ugandan newspaper ''[[Rolling Stone (Uganda)|Rolling Stone]]'', a publication unrelated to the American magazine of the same name, which rejected the Ugandan paper and called its actions as "horrific", published a gallery of "100 Pictures of Uganda's Top Homos Leak" and stated "Hang Them",<ref name=MSNBC>[http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39742685 "Gays in Uganda say they're living in fear"], Godfrey Olukya & Jason Straziuso, ''[[NBC News]]'', [[Associated Press]]</ref><ref name=Guardian>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/21/ugandan-paper-gay-people-hanged "Ugandan paper calls for gay people to be hanged"], Xan Rice, [[guardian.co.uk]], 21 October 2010</ref> In response, four members of SMUG whose faces appeared in the magazine, [[David Kato|David Kato Kisule]], [[Kasha Nabagesera]], [[Nabirye Mariam]], and Pepe Julian Onziema "Patience", filed a petition with the High Court seeking to force the paper to cease distribution of the article. The court granted the petition on 2 November 2010, effectively ending the publication of Ugandan ''Rolling Stone''.<ref name=Reuters110210>[https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE6A103F20101102/ "Uganda court orders anti-gay paper to shut"], [[Reuters]], 2 November 2010</ref><ref name=CNN110210>[http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/11/02/uganda.gay.list/?hpt=T2 "Judge orders Ugandan paper to stop publishing 'gay lists'"], ''[[CNN International]]'', 2 November 2010</ref>
The Ugandan newspaper ''[[Rolling Stone (Uganda)|Rolling Stone]]'', a publication unrelated to the [[Rolling Stone|American magazine of the same name]], which rejected the Ugandan paper and called its actions as "horrific", published a gallery of "100 Pictures of Uganda's Top Homos Leak" and stated "Hang Them".<ref name=MSNBC>[http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39742685 "Gays in Uganda say they're living in fear"], Godfrey Olukya & Jason Straziuso, ''[[NBC News]]'', [[Associated Press]]</ref><ref name=Guardian>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/21/ugandan-paper-gay-people-hanged "Ugandan paper calls for gay people to be hanged"], Xan Rice, [[guardian.co.uk]], 21 October 2010</ref> In response, four members of SMUG whose faces appeared in the magazine, [[David Kato|David Kato Kisule]], [[Kasha Nabagesera]], [[Nabirye Mariam]], and [[Pepe Julian Onziema]] "Patience", filed a petition with the High Court seeking to force the paper to cease distribution of the article. The court granted the petition on 2 November 2010, effectively ending the publication of Ugandan ''Rolling Stone''.<ref name=Reuters110210>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101105022952/http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE6A103F20101102 "Uganda court orders anti-gay paper to shut"], [[Reuters]], 2 November 2010</ref><ref name=CNN110210>[http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/11/02/uganda.gay.list/?hpt=T2 "Judge orders Ugandan paper to stop publishing 'gay lists'"], ''[[CNN International]]'', 2 November 2010</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Stevenson |first=Robin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z4LQDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Pepe+Julian+Onziema%22&pg=PT193 |title=Pride: The Celebration and the Struggle |date=2020-03-24 |publisher=Orca Book Publishers |isbn=978-1-4598-2126-2 |language=en}}</ref>


On 26 January 2011, Kato, whose picture had been featured on the cover of the issue of ''Rolling Stone'' in question, was assaulted in his home in [[Mukono Town]] by his acquaintance Sidney Nsubuga Enoch, 22, who hit him twice in the head with a hammer found in Kato's bathroom before fleeing on foot. The apparent motive was a disagreement about sexual services and robbery.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1270664/-/bgvjh8z/-| title=Gay activist murderer sentenced to 30 years | publisher=The Monitor, Uganda | date=10 November 2011}}</ref> Kato died en route to the Kawolo Hospital. The murder was decried by [[Human Rights Watch]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/01/27/uganda-promptly-investigate-killing-prominent-lgbt-activist | title=Uganda: Promptly Investigate Killing of Prominent LGBT Activist | publisher=Human Rights Watch | date=27 January 2011}}</ref> and senior Africa researcher Maria Burnett said that "David Kato's death is a tragic loss to the human rights community".
On 26 January 2011, Kato, whose picture had been featured on the cover of the issue of ''Rolling Stone'' in question, was assaulted in his home in [[Mukono Town]] by his acquaintance Sidney Nsubuga Enoch, 22, who hit him twice in the head with a hammer found in Kato's bathroom before fleeing on foot. The apparent motive was a disagreement about sexual services and robbery.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1270664/-/bgvjh8z/-| title=Gay activist murderer sentenced to 30 years | publisher=The Monitor, Uganda | date=10 November 2011}}</ref> Kato died en route to the Kawolo Hospital. The murder was decried by [[Human Rights Watch]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/01/27/uganda-promptly-investigate-killing-prominent-lgbt-activist | title=Uganda: Promptly Investigate Killing of Prominent LGBT Activist | publisher=Human Rights Watch | date=27 January 2011}}</ref> and senior Africa researcher Maria Burnett said that "David Kato's death is a tragic loss to the human rights community".


On 15 September 2011, SMUG's executive director Frank Mugisha was named the recipient of the annual [[Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award]] for his activism.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rfkcenter.org/node/157751 | title=Ugandan LGBTI Rights Activist Frank Mugisha to Receive 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award | publisher=Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights | date=15 September 2011}}</ref> Mugisha also received the [[Rafto Prize|Rafto Prize for Human Rights]] on behalf of SMUG on 6 September 2011.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/rafto-documents/Award-statements/RaftoPrize2011-SMUG-Frank-Mugisha.pdf | title=The 2011 Rafto Prize to Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and their leader Frank Mugisha | publisher=Rafto Foundation | accessdate=9 March 2012}}</ref>
On 15 September 2011, SMUG's executive director Frank Mugisha was named the recipient of the annual [[Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award]] for his activism.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rfkcenter.org/node/157751 | title=Ugandan LGBTI Rights Activist Frank Mugisha to Receive 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award | publisher=Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights | date=15 September 2011}}</ref> Mugisha also received the [[Rafto Prize|Rafto Prize for Human Rights]] on behalf of SMUG on 6 September 2011.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/rafto-documents/Award-statements/RaftoPrize2011-SMUG-Frank-Mugisha.pdf | title=The 2011 Rafto Prize to Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and their leader Frank Mugisha | publisher=Rafto Foundation | access-date=9 March 2012}}</ref>
[[File:Sexual Minorities Uganda-ri eman dio Lehendakariak René Cassin 2017 saria (40116225662).jpg|thumb|315x315px|SMUG members accepting the 2017 [[René Cassin]] award, administered by Lehendakari [[Iñigo Urkullu]] of [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque]]]]
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In 2012,<ref name="NYT" /> SMUG and several Ugandans, including Onziema, Mukasa, and Mugisha, together with the [[Center for Constitutional Rights]] initiated legal action in [[U.S. District Court|U.S. Federal District Court]] using the [[Alien Tort Statute]] to sue American evangelist [[Scott Lively]] for [[crimes against humanity]] for his work on the Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill.<ref>{{cite news | first=Frank | last=Mugisha | publisher=theguardian.com | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | date=21 March 2014 | access-date=21 March 2014 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/20/gay-ugandan-law-tyrannise-life-anti-homosexuality-act | title=I am a gay Ugandan about to go home. This law will tyrannise my life.}}</ref> Lively's work has been described as inciting the persecution of gay men and lesbians<ref name="NYT">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/us/ugandan-gay-rights-group-sues-scott-lively-an-american-evangelist.html | title=Ugandan Gay Rights Group Sues U.S. Evangelist | first=Laurie | last=Goodstein | date=14 March 2012 | access-date=21 March 2014 | newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> and as "conduct ... actively trying to harm and deprive other people of their rights".<ref>{{cite news | last=Halper | first=Katie | title=Ugandan LGBTQ org sues U.S. evangelist for inciting persecution | url=http://feministing.com/2012/03/15/ugandan-lgbtq-org-sues-u-s-evangelist-for-inciting-persecution | newspaper=Feministing | date=15 March 2012 | access-date= 21 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last=Weiss | first=Debra Cassens | title=Suit Alleges Evangelist Violated International Law by Waging an Anti-Gay Campaign in Uganda | url=http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/suit_alleges_evangelist_violated_international_law_by_waging_an_anti-gay_ca | newspaper=[[ABA Journal]] | date=15 March 2012 | access-date=21 March 2014}}</ref> In August 2013, Judge [[Michael A. Ponsor]] ruled that the plaintiffs were on solid ground under international and federal law in rejecting a jurisdictional challenge to the suit. He also ruled that First Amendment defenses for Lively's conduct were premature.<ref>{{cite news | last=Barry | first=Stephanie | title=Crimes against humanity lawsuit against anti-gay evangelist Pastor Scott Lively, of Springfield, advances in federal court | url=http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/08/crimes_against_humanity_lawsui.html | newspaper=[[The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts)|The Republican]] | date=19 August 2013 | access-date=21 March 2014}}</ref>

In 2017, Lehendakari [[Iñigo Urkullu]] of the Basque Government presented SMUG with the [[René Cassin]] award.


In August 2022, SMUG was ordered by the Ugandan government to immediately shut down. The government said that SMUG had failed to properly register its name with the National Bureau for Non-Governmental Organizations. The NGO Bureau issued a statement saying that SMUG's registration attempt in 2012 was rejected because its full name was deemed "undesirable". In response to the shutdown order, executive director Frank Mugisha called it "a clear witch hunt rooted in systematic homophobia, fuelled by anti-gay and anti-gender movements."<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-08-07 |title=Uganda LGBT rights: Government shuts down key advocacy group |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-62453344 |access-date=2022-08-07}}</ref>
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In 2012,<ref name = NYT/> SMUG and several Ugandans, including Onziema, Mukasa, and Mugisha, together with the [[Center for Constitutional Rights]] initiated legal action in [[U.S. District Court|U.S. Federal District Court]] using the [[Alien Tort Statute]] to sue American evangelist [[Scott Lively]] for [[crimes against humanity]] for his work on the Uganda's [[Anti-Homosexuality Bill]].<ref>{{cite news | first=Frank | last=Mugisha | publisher=theguardian.com | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | date=21 March 2014 | accessdate=21 March 2014 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/20/gay-ugandan-law-tyrannise-life-anti-homosexuality-act | title=I am a gay Ugandan about to go home. This law will tyrannise my life.}}</ref> Lively's work has been described as inciting the persecution of gay men and lesbians<ref name = NYT>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/us/ugandan-gay-rights-group-sues-scott-lively-an-american-evangelist.html | title=Ugandan Gay Rights Group Sues U.S. Evangelist | first=Laurie | last=Goodstein | date=14 March 2012 | accessdate=21 March 2014 | newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> and as "conduct ... actively trying to harm and deprive other people of their rights".<ref>{{cite news | last=Halper | first=Katie | title=Ugandan LGBTQ org sues U.S. evangelist for inciting persecution | url=http://feministing.com/2012/03/15/ugandan-lgbtq-org-sues-u-s-evangelist-for-inciting-persecution | newspaper=Feministing | date=15 March 2012 | accessdate= 21 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last=Weiss | first=Debra Cassens | title=Suit Alleges Evangelist Violated International Law by Waging an Anti-Gay Campaign in Uganda | url=http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/suit_alleges_evangelist_violated_international_law_by_waging_an_anti-gay_ca | newspaper=[[ABA Journal]] | date=15 March 2012 | accessdate=21 March 2014}}</ref> In August 2013, Judge [[Michael A. Ponsor]] ruled that the plaintiffs were on solid ground under international and federal law in rejecting a jurisdictional challenge to the suit. He also ruled that First Amendment defenses for Lively's conduct were premature.<ref>{{cite news | last=Barry | first=Stephanie | title=Crimes against humanity lawsuit against anti-gay evangelist Pastor Scott Lively, of Springfield, advances in federal court | url=http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/08/crimes_against_humanity_lawsui.html | newspaper=[[The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts)|The Republican]] | date=19 August 2013 | accessdate=21 March 2014}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==
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==External links==
==External links==
* Sexual Minorities Uganda [http://www.sexualminoritiesuganda.com/ Sexual Minorities Uganda]
* [http://www.sexualminoritiesuganda.com/ Sexual Minorities Uganda] - official website
* [https://smuginternational.org/ Sexual Minorities Uganda] - official website (USA office)
* [https://www.instagram.com/smug2004/ Sexual Minorities Uganda] - Instagram
* Sexual Minorities Uganda: [https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/sexual-minorities-uganda-v-scott-lively The Case Against Scott Lively]
* Sexual Minorities Uganda: [https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/sexual-minorities-uganda-v-scott-lively The Case Against Scott Lively]


Revision as of 08:47, 19 February 2024

This article is about Sexual Minorities Uganda. For other uses, see Smug (disambiguation).

Sexual Minorities Uganda
Formation2004
Executive Director
Frank Mugisha
Pepe Julian Onziema
Websitehttps://smuginternational.org/

Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) is an umbrella non-governmental organization based in Kampala, Uganda. It has been described as the country's leading gay rights advocacy group.[1]

One of their achievements include director Pepe Julian Onziema leading a coalition of 55 civil society organizations to overturn the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014.[2]

Organisation

Founders included Victor Mukasa and Sylvia Tamale. Executive director Frank Mugisha and deputy director Pepe Julian Onziema both took office in 2007. Advocacy officer David Kato was the advocacy and litigation officer until his murder in January 2011. SMUG advocates for the protection and promotion of human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Ugandans.

A network composed of several member organizations was founded in 2004:

  • Icebreakers Uganda, concerned with LGBT research and youth issues.
  • Freedom & Roam Uganda, dedicated to the rights of lesbian, transgender, and intersex women.
  • Spectrum Uganda, focused on the health and well-being of LGBT people in Uganda (co-founded by John "Longjones" Abdallah Wambere).
  • Transgender Initiative Uganda addresses transgender issues.

History

Victor Mukasa, a trans man activist, founded Sexual Minorities Uganda on 3 March 2004 in Kampala at the Kaival restaurant and Internet cafe. The earliest members included Val Kalende. Kamuhangire.E and David Kato, who were among the first board members. Members of SMUG achieved controversy through their activism and legal troubles for much of the organization's history, and the profile of the organization in the later-2000s due to the rise of homophobic populism in the country and the introduction of the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill in the Parliament by David Bahati.

The Ugandan newspaper Rolling Stone, a publication unrelated to the American magazine of the same name, which rejected the Ugandan paper and called its actions as "horrific", published a gallery of "100 Pictures of Uganda's Top Homos Leak" and stated "Hang Them".[3][4] In response, four members of SMUG whose faces appeared in the magazine, David Kato Kisule, Kasha Nabagesera, Nabirye Mariam, and Pepe Julian Onziema "Patience", filed a petition with the High Court seeking to force the paper to cease distribution of the article. The court granted the petition on 2 November 2010, effectively ending the publication of Ugandan Rolling Stone.[5][6][7]

On 26 January 2011, Kato, whose picture had been featured on the cover of the issue of Rolling Stone in question, was assaulted in his home in Mukono Town by his acquaintance Sidney Nsubuga Enoch, 22, who hit him twice in the head with a hammer found in Kato's bathroom before fleeing on foot. The apparent motive was a disagreement about sexual services and robbery.[8] Kato died en route to the Kawolo Hospital. The murder was decried by Human Rights Watch[9] and senior Africa researcher Maria Burnett said that "David Kato's death is a tragic loss to the human rights community".

On 15 September 2011, SMUG's executive director Frank Mugisha was named the recipient of the annual Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his activism.[10] Mugisha also received the Rafto Prize for Human Rights on behalf of SMUG on 6 September 2011.[11]

SMUG members accepting the 2017 René Cassin award, administered by Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu of Basque

In 2012,[12] SMUG and several Ugandans, including Onziema, Mukasa, and Mugisha, together with the Center for Constitutional Rights initiated legal action in U.S. Federal District Court using the Alien Tort Statute to sue American evangelist Scott Lively for crimes against humanity for his work on the Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill.[13] Lively's work has been described as inciting the persecution of gay men and lesbians[12] and as "conduct ... actively trying to harm and deprive other people of their rights".[14][15] In August 2013, Judge Michael A. Ponsor ruled that the plaintiffs were on solid ground under international and federal law in rejecting a jurisdictional challenge to the suit. He also ruled that First Amendment defenses for Lively's conduct were premature.[16]

In 2017, Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu of the Basque Government presented SMUG with the René Cassin award.

In August 2022, SMUG was ordered by the Ugandan government to immediately shut down. The government said that SMUG had failed to properly register its name with the National Bureau for Non-Governmental Organizations. The NGO Bureau issued a statement saying that SMUG's registration attempt in 2012 was rejected because its full name was deemed "undesirable". In response to the shutdown order, executive director Frank Mugisha called it "a clear witch hunt rooted in systematic homophobia, fuelled by anti-gay and anti-gender movements."[17]

See also

References

  1. ^ Dahir, Abdi Latif (20 April 2023). "'We Will Hunt You': Ugandans Flee Ahead of Harsh Anti-Gay Law". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Ugandan LGBT activist says threats and violence won't stop the fight for civil rights". CBC Radio. 4 October 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Gays in Uganda say they're living in fear", Godfrey Olukya & Jason Straziuso, NBC News, Associated Press
  4. ^ "Ugandan paper calls for gay people to be hanged", Xan Rice, guardian.co.uk, 21 October 2010
  5. ^ "Uganda court orders anti-gay paper to shut", Reuters, 2 November 2010
  6. ^ "Judge orders Ugandan paper to stop publishing 'gay lists'", CNN International, 2 November 2010
  7. ^ Stevenson, Robin (24 March 2020). Pride: The Celebration and the Struggle. Orca Book Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4598-2126-2.
  8. ^ "Gay activist murderer sentenced to 30 years". The Monitor, Uganda. 10 November 2011.
  9. ^ "Uganda: Promptly Investigate Killing of Prominent LGBT Activist". Human Rights Watch. 27 January 2011.
  10. ^ "Ugandan LGBTI Rights Activist Frank Mugisha to Receive 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award". Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. 15 September 2011.
  11. ^ "The 2011 Rafto Prize to Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and their leader Frank Mugisha" (PDF). Rafto Foundation. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  12. ^ a b Goodstein, Laurie (14 March 2012). "Ugandan Gay Rights Group Sues U.S. Evangelist". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  13. ^ Mugisha, Frank (21 March 2014). "I am a gay Ugandan about to go home. This law will tyrannise my life". The Guardian. theguardian.com. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  14. ^ Halper, Katie (15 March 2012). "Ugandan LGBTQ org sues U.S. evangelist for inciting persecution". Feministing. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  15. ^ Weiss, Debra Cassens (15 March 2012). "Suit Alleges Evangelist Violated International Law by Waging an Anti-Gay Campaign in Uganda". ABA Journal. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  16. ^ Barry, Stephanie (19 August 2013). "Crimes against humanity lawsuit against anti-gay evangelist Pastor Scott Lively, of Springfield, advances in federal court". The Republican. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  17. ^ "Uganda LGBT rights: Government shuts down key advocacy group". BBC News. 7 August 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2022.

External links

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