On Friday, citizens of Pretoria and Cape Town took to the streets to protest a recently passed law in Uganda. The bill makes it illegal to be openly homosexual.
While chanting and waving flags, protesters implored Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni not to sign the bill into law.
Human Rights Watch asserts that more than thirty African states restrict same-sex relationships. Uganda’s proposed law would be the first to penalize membership in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) community.
Papa De DeLovia Kwagala, a Ugandan LGBTQ rights activist and photographer, was among the about a hundred demonstrators outside the United Nations Information Centre in Pretoria. He said that foreign leaders should pressure Museveni not to sign the measure. Since it is an African continent-wide problem, not simply a Ugandan one.
Despite the fact that the LGBTQ community owes no one anything, its members should have the same possibilities as everyone else. You do not possess the right to remove all of our legal safeguards. This is a worldwide disaster.
