The Isolation of Uganda’s Gays: Tormented If You Stay In The Closet, And If You Come Out

“Because I don’t want to be killed,” half-laughs this anonymous Ugandan blogger when asked why he doesn’t put his name on his site. “Our anonymity is the most important weapon that we have.” He also makes this crucial point: When you’ve got newspapers freely publishing the names of gays, you also have a reality where many queers don’t know — or have the resources to know — what’s going on around them, like the still-alive Kill The Gays bill. “Usually [gays] don’t have anybody to talk to, you don’t have anybody to explain what is really happening in the country, what is happening in your life.”