News comes today of more human rights abuses in Uganda, where an anti-gay tabloid published graphic photos of the head of a national soccer team.
Last year, the evil Red Pepper tabloid ran photos of Chris Mubiru having sex with men … or at least, so they claimed. Details and facts were scant, and it’s unclear where the photos came from or if they’re real.
Mubiru fled the country for a bit, but police arrested him upon his return.
Now he’s officially been charged, and released on bond after paying about $30,000.
How about we take this to the next level?
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Conditions are still quite dire for LGBTs in Uganda. Antiquated colonial laws and misinformation have led to widespread abuse, from harassment to torture to murder. A pending bill would go even further, strengthening punishments for gay men.
Edwin Sesange, director of African LGBTI Out & Proud Diamond Group is pleading for regional leaders to join a campaign to educate the public and repeal these laws. They have their work cut out for them if all it takes to ruin a man’s life is a couple of sketchy photos in a gossip magazine.
Stache1
You mean after he paid $30,000 in extortion.
jimbryant
Why hasn’t the American black community said anything about this? The NAACP, for instance.
Memo to American blacks: your silence is deafening. It’s as if you agree with Uganda’s laws.
Black Pegasus
@jimbryant: Shut the fuck up you petulant troll! I wish your silence was deafening!
Scribe38
@jimbryant: Its one thing to be a r@cist another to be stupid and too lazy to google sh*t
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/02/10/naacp-denounces-anti-gay-persecution-in-uganda/
http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2011/01/obama-on-uganda-killing-lgbt-
r.html
Kangol
@Scribe38:
THANK YOU!
The hom0ph0bic, misogynistic, self-loathing troll known as “jimbryant” is on here to provoke and throw every comment thread off kilter. We should generally ignore him, except when we have to school him/it, as you just perfectly did.
Thank you again!
alanj
@Kangol: and I second that… THANK YOU
Ellen J. Singleton
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Tackle
@Scribe38: I third that in thanking you for posting that. This is the second time within a week or two that @Jimbryant: has accused Black leadership of not responding, only to be proven wrong. And then he does what he always do. Crawl back into his little hole like a rat. Strange how this guy is up in the asses of Black leadership trying to find fault. And when good is done, you don’t hear sh# t from him.