GLAAD joined up with The Fellowship for Affirming Ministries to call attention to continued violence againt LGBTQ people in Uganda, and call on the Trump administration to live up to its loud promises to protect LGBTQ people and people of faith.
Two prominent Ugandan newspapers published salacious reports of a same-sex marriage that was supposedly performed at a pro-LGBTQ church in Uganda. This follows Ugandan politicians resurrecting a worse version of the so-called "Kill The Gays" bill and the murder of a prominent young LGBTQ activist -- the fourth to occur in Uganda in just a four month period.
This evening, Ugandan police raided a Uganda Pride event in Kampala. Among those arrested are Dr. Frank Mugisha and Pepe Julian Onziema, leaders of Sexual Minorities Uganda.
After the controversial anti-LGBT law in Uganda, known as the "jail the gays" law, was ruled unconstitutional by the Uganda's constitutional court this August, a new campaign is trying to get the law passed again by the end of 2014.
