The following is an extract from the The Guardian UK. Click on the link below for the full story.
As a gay Ugandan, Frank Mugisha has endured insults from strangers, hate messages on his phone, police harassment and being outed in a tabloid as one of the country's "top homos". That may soon seem like the good old days.
Life imprisonment is the minimum punishment for anyone convicted of having gay sex, under an anti-homosexuality bill currently before Uganda's parliament. If the accused person is HIV positive or a serial offender, or a "person of authority" over the other partner, or if the "victim" is under 18, a conviction will result in the death penalty.
Members of the public are obliged to report any homosexual activity to police with 24 hours or risk up to three years in jail – a scenario that human rights campaigners say will result in a witchhunt.Ugandans breaking the new law abroad will be subject to extradition requests.
"The bill is haunting us," said Mugisha, 25, chairman of Sexual Minorities Uganda, a coalition of local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex groups that will all be banned under the law. "If this passes we will have to leave the country."
Human rights groups within and outside Uganda have condemned the proposed legislation, which is designed to strengthen colonial-era laws that already criminalise gay sex. The issue threatened to overshadow the Commonwealth heads of government meeting that ended in Trinidad and Tobagotoday, with the UK and Canada both expressing strong concerns. Ahead of the meeting Stephen Lewis, a former UN envoy on Aids in Africa, said the law "makes a mockery of Commonwealth principles" and has "a taste of fascism" about it.
But within Uganda deeply-rooted homophobia, aided by a US-linked evangelical campaign alleging that gay men are trying to "recruit" schoolchildren, and that homosexuality is a habit that can be "cured", has ensured widespread public support for the bill.
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Why is it that, too often, Westerners feel compelled to export their extreme domestic politics - whether sexual, religious or ideological - to the world at large? Historically, hasn't this usually resulted in more carnage than peace? Think Indochina, for one.
To all sexual, religious and ideological activists, please learn to truly care about the countries of which you are a guest, keep your aggressive, political "rights" wars of animosity within your own countries' picket fences, and don't jump onto helicopters and Boeings the moment the roof starts to cave in. Or better yet, shut up and go home - thank you, but the second world war is over.
i know this is simplistic and rude, and there are many foreigners like Jimmy Carter who really do care in a very practical and loving way. But there are also too many show-offs who are just finding it easier to be baldly stupid abroad. THIS is Asia. Get it?
http://gayuganda.blogspot.com/
It's the entry for 4th Dec., titled "Personal".
This is one very brave individual.
But where are the data to prove this point? Perhaps their ignorant MPs should consult professional organizations of psychologists and psychiatrists first. I am fine with people trying to make such allegations. But they should be able to prove their points.
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Nonetheless, Western political activists, both gay and religious, keep the animosity of your mutually-intolerant wars within your own countries, please. Tend to your own fences, be self-righteous in your own bars and pubs and bistros, and most of all, just stop being self-important, animosity-fuelling kay-pohs abroad, especially in Asia. Or, take an Airbus to Iran.
We are learning to live and let live here. Cheers.
Thanks.
And continuing that line of thought...where ever there is injustice, and gays are criminalised and/or murdered by the state, above all just do what you are told to do by the religious extremists in Singapore, just shut up and sit down. When they post nonsense and misinformation on our websites, just smile sweetly and keep quiet in case they get upset and start spouting racism. And above all never point out that they should consider getting deprogrammed by an anti-cult expert.
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