Uganda’s new anti-homosexuality law bans identification as LGBTQ
Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Uganda’s new anti-homosexuality law bans identification as LGBTQ Law could be the first to criminalise identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ): Rights Watch ADVERTISEMENT Uganda’s parliament has passed sweeping antigay legislation that proposes tough new penalties for same-sex relationships and criminalises anyone identifying as LGBTQ. ADVERTISEMENT While more than 30 African countries, including Uganda, already ban same-sex relationships, the new law passed on Tuesday appears to be the first to outlaw merely identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ), Human Rights Watch said. ADVERTISEMENT “The ayes have it,” Parliamentary Speaker Anita Annet Among said after the final vote, adding that the “bill passed in record time”. Legislators amended significant portions of th