By David Isabirye
In 2023, Uganda came into global limelight when the Parliament affirmatively passed the Anti Homosexuality Act that was also assented by the president H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
Since then, the country has been Hell of a storm for many LGBTQ leaning personalities, affiliates, addicts and advocates apiece.
With stringent punishments including lengthy imprisonment terms and death at worst, many advocates are fearing for their dear lives and families.
On the 6/01/2024, the Kawempe Police got Intel over an unlawful gathering suspected to be of the LGBTQ community and made several arrests that were detained.
According to the police OC CID, there were a few others who managed to escape and were being hunted according to the event registration form that the police had obtained from the scene.
These included; Kizza John of Wakiso, Kiyimba Tonny of Masaka, Sserumpanise Jeremy of Namugongo, Kateregga Andrew of Masaka and Douglas Kasozi of Munyonyo.
The convention regarded the incident where court upheld the Anti Homosexuality Act, 2023.
Registration list recovered from the scene
About the LGBTQ community in Uganda:
The LGBTQ community is a minority and marginalized group of people that have faced societal discrimination due to the existing cultural norms of the land where people of the same sex cannot openly express their love affairs neither can they ever be allowed to marry.
Such people in Uganda are openly rejected to the extent that they are denied access to basic public health care, community jobs and many have had their gardens (plantations) and other property destroyed.
Once they get identified without getting fair attention by the Ugandan police because it’s the existing community leaders that instruct for such actions to take place.
These acts of human rights violations eventually calls for hunger and absolute poverty amongst these marginalized human beings.
There are discriminatory tendencies of the LGBTQ communities, many have survived without jobs and their farming activities have been frustrated by destroying their plantations once identified.
