This week president Yoweri Museveni enacted our country’s latest attempt to outlaw LGBTIQ Ugandans, with the assent of the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023.
In its genocidal fantasies, the law prescribes life imprisonment or death for what its framers call “aggravated homosexuality” – and there is much more in it that beggars belief.
Three days ago I joined eight other Ugandans to file a petition with our Constitutional Court to challenge this odious law. The group includes the only two MPs to vote against the bill in parliament, Fox Odoi-Oywelowo and Paul Kwizera Bucyana; Jane Nasiimbwa, one of the courageous mothers of queer Ugandans who in March wrote an open letter to the president urging him to veto the bill; seasoned human rights activists Pepe Onziema and Frank Mugisha; feminist lawyer Linda Mutesi; diplomat Kintu Nyago; and journalist Andrew Mwenda. (Another petition has been filed by the Ugandan Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum, and others.)
