Uganda: What's Driving Homophobia in Uganda

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In recent years homosexuality in Uganda has become an increasingly volatile political and social issue. Last month an LGBTQI activist was murdered in his home and Ugandan police detained 16 men on suspicion of homosexuality and human trafficking.

These events followed rumours that Uganda might be reintroducing an anti-homosexuality bill. An earlier attempt at legislation, introduced in 2009, became known as the "Kill the Gays" bill because it proposed the death sentence for acts of "aggravated homosexuality". It was passed by Uganda's parliament in 2013 but eventually overturned by the constitutional court on a technicality.

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