tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83427658032573729582024-03-16T04:12:25.092+03:00Gay, Queer AfricaIssues Concerning Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual and other Sexual Minorities Africa
We started off as GayUganda...., but time changes all....gayugandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079301892908040760noreply@blogger.comBlogger1456125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342765803257372958.post-61951323335227094242023-08-12T12:18:00.005+03:002023-08-12T12:18:55.883+03:00Weird, Queer Mood; Uganda, Ugandans on the World Bank<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The World Bank released a
statement. To dear Uganda; sorry, but our values and the values enshrined in
the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 are at war. <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/world-bank-halts-new-loans-to-uganda-over-anti-gay-law-4330784">We
pause future aid</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Frankly, I am caught off guard.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not by the fact that the World
Bank would react like so. They are an important international institution.
Quite vulnerable to politics and activism. Of course they do have values. And
of course the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023, Uganda’s beloved legislation of
death and imprisonment to the homosexual…, it is weird out there bad.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet, believe it or not, Ugandans
feel that they have been beset and bothered and are being set upon by the World
Bank. How dare they!!!!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I understand, on a daily basis,
that Ugandans, in Uganda, have a deep lack of understanding of who and what I
am as a kuchu. It is sort of always in the background, that they think me less
than human and evil and a demon. I hear it on radios and tvs and literally
everywhere.<br />
Yet, there is a part of me to which that chorus is water on a duck’s back.
Always running off, never sticking. I am kuchu, and mature enough to know that
that is no big deal.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not so to my fellow Ugandans.<br />
The <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/ugandas-anti-homosexuality-act-2023.html">Anti-Homosexuality
Act 2023</a> is taken, and I have been told again and again and again by self
righteous Ugandans, it is a measure of the Will of Ugandans in Uganda. It is
their right, and right to have me in prison for life and on death row, simply
because I am an evil homosexual.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">They, fellow Ugandans, believe
that.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And they are always supremely
surprised that the rest of the world doesn’t believe so. That the world around
actually condemns them for that act of great morality, the Anti-Homosexuality
Act 2023.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, the President, apparently
receiving the news late, pens his frustration on good old paper with ink. Odd…,
maybe the old man hasn’t moved on to more modern means. The resulting missive
he posts on twitter, (forgive, he posts on ‘X’). An X post indeed.<br />
I haven’t read it…, I get depressed by our apparent lack of understanding of
the realities of life. All I thought was…, now, those notes will be great in a
Presidential library years and years from now! Weird reaction!<br />
His message, summarised, was Uganda will develop, with or without the World
Bank. Sour grapes, I think…, but, I am one of the very bad homosexuals.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘Bobi Wine’ Kyaggulanyi, beleaguered
president of the biggest party in opposition, was chagrined. The World Bank
should care about Uganda’s other human rights transgressions. Not only about
the homosexual genocide inherent in the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023, Bobi Wine
whines and whinges.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Weird reaction, as expected…, we
are Ugandans.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">From parliament,<a href="https://parliamentwatch.ug/news-amp-updates/anti-homosexuality-act-uganda-government-to-revise-budget-after-world-bank-finance-ban/">
a necessary re-adjustment of the budget</a>. World Bank monies were presumed…,<br />
Which really shows how clueless Ugandan politicos and leadership is.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can get that Museveni was
blindsided, Archbishop Kaziimba mounted a blitzkrieg targeting parliament,
Speaker Among had her own political irons in the fire and <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/asumani-basalirwa-of-ugandas-anti.html">poor
Asumaani Basalirwa</a> is simply a stupid pawn…<br />
But, once the deed was done, all of the results were predictable. An
international game of chess, and Ugandan leaders are playing strictly to the
local audience, blithely forgetting the world is NOT ‘Uganda the Village’.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Basalirwa is crying that it is
‘unfair’, his beautiful Anti-Homosexuality Act is being taken out of context.
This naïve dude then repeats that we should rely on ‘The Arabs’.<br />
Such leaders we have. Not a clue to the realities of international economics,
finance, politics. He believes ‘the Arabs’ will hand Uganda development aid
because he Basalirwa is a Moslem… And that is the pawn that presented the
Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda’s parliament?<br />
Yet, to be accurate, the members of Parliament are more than 500. To my
knowledge, only 2 seemed to have dissented from actualising the ‘Will of the
People’.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Besides ‘adjusting’ the budget for
this financial year, the politicians are of course whipping up the homophobia.<br />
Expected. As in, who is to blame? Of course it is us, the very, very bad, evil
and demonic homosexuals. We are to blame, clearly, in the eyes of all right
thinking Ugandans.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">LGBTQ+ activists have taken a
muted victory lap.<br />
Of course they are. And, I don’t blame us. We are very many things, but we are
not angels. Our country has written into the l<a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/homo-in-uganda-natural-life-in-prison.html">aw
of the land Life imprisonment</a> and <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/death-to-homosexual-in-uganda.html">Death
to us</a>, simply because we are who we are. Yes, LGBTQ+ activists in Uganda
are really angry. My anger has been spilling out now and again here…, but I am
just one.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet, though they campaigned for
the World Bank to suspend the loaning, I am not a believer in our supposed
demonic super powers as kuchus; crediting their lobbying with the results is
simply an abuse of my thinking and capacity at logic.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">One would think that independent
media and newspapers in Uganda would be more discerning. But, this is Uganda.
One would be very wrong.<br />
On the subject of homosexuality, in Uganda, that is the National Prejudice.
Sanity is the first thing out of the window of the debate room. The rest is
fevered emotional, emotive reaction.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">But…, and an important but, many
Ugandans believe that it is our lobbying that has caused the World Bank to
suspend loans.<br />
Clueless Ugandans. I marvel again, that ‘Homosexuality and Homosexuals’ as we
are called, are the National Prejudice. Yank on that chain, and Ugandans bark
and predictably go into convulsions. Thinking and thought and logic are
suspended, until the haze settles.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is ‘Uganda The Village’,
indeed. Our very own thinking bubble rejecting any thought to the contrary; demonic,
as in literal demon possessed we are. However free the internet is, however
open knowledge is, it has to be taken in, it has to be processed. It has to be
understood.<br />
And Ugandans are unable to think clearly, because the subject is Homosexuality,
our National Prejudice!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">True, many Ugandans blame Kuchu
activists simply because a scapegoat is desperately needed. That is the
pragmatic politics, and we are a uniquely visible invisible scapegoat. A
predictable misstep was done by the leaders, they have to explain why a move that
they were warned from the start was quite predictable is now taking them by
surprise, indeed.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I mean, how many times were they
warned that this was going to happen? And those warning were rubbished as
‘pro-homosexual’, and the righteous Speaker Among told all how we could all do
without the aid?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, the mood in Uganda is queer
weird. Quite predictably so.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoHeading7"><span style="font-size: large;">Disclosure; Who shall I tell? Coming Out and Disclosure in
Uganda, other Hostile environments (3)</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Coming out…, when one admits to
themselves that they are kuchu, that they are other than heterosexual, the
relief, the sense of wellness and rightness which follows that self revelation
is considerable.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I know. I have been there.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is great. It is ongoing, and it
is empowering. Makes one feel like they have missed years and years of their
lives. You will feel empowered and euphoric.<br />
And you will find yourself wanting to tell your best friends, your family, significant
other people in your family.<br />
It is true. After a while you feel so good about yourself that you simply want
to share the good news, to have people be happy with you, to have them dance
and clap and jump with joy because you have discovered who you are. You simply
want to be happy with them. Yeah, again, I have walked that road…</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, who should you tell?</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The answer is, I don’t know.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our environment is extremely
hostile. Ugandans are more hostile to kuchus than <a href="https://www.afrobarometer.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/AD639-Uganda-a-continental-extreme-in-rejection-of-people-in-same-sex-relationships-Afrobarometer-9may23-.pdf">most
other countries in Africa</a>.(pdf)<br />
Just because we live in Uganda on a day to day basis, we always forget <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/lynching-suspected-kuchu-in-africa-how.html">the
real life dangers that are possibilities</a> simply because we are kuchu. You
cannot forget this, when you are thinking of telling someone that you are
kuchu. Doesn’t matter whether it is a close member of family, or the best of
best friends. Remember that it might be a shock of shocks to them, and their
reactions have to be considered. It is simply not good if you find yourself in
prison just because you told a best friend about your happiness on coming out.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is a<a href="https://www.afrobarometer.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/AD639-Uganda-a-continental-extreme-in-rejection-of-people-in-same-sex-relationships-Afrobarometer-9may23-.pdf">
sobering quote from that report</a></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“Findings from the most recent Afrobarometer survey show that Ugandan
adults of all ages and education levels overwhelmingly continue to express
intolerance for same-sex relationships, think they should be illegal, <i><u>and are willing to report their own
family member or close friend to the police if they engage in homosexual
activity.</u></i> Their level of intolerance for sexual difference is the
highest among 37 African countries surveyed in 2021/2022.”</b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is your life. You will know who
of your significant friends, family that you can approach.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">To scare you further, and indeed,
my aim is to scare you into understanding how serious the homophobia in our
country, Uganda is. Those who answered questions were asked whether they would
report us to police close acquaintances; friends, co-workers, relatives. <a href="https://www.afrobarometer.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/AD639-Uganda-a-continental-extreme-in-rejection-of-people-in-same-sex-relationships-Afrobarometer-9may23-.pdf">More
than 90% of Ugandans said they would.</a></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“<u>more than nine out of 10
respondents (94%-95%) said they would report relatives – including their
siblings and children</u> – as well as close friends and co-workers to the
police if they discovered that they were in same-sex relationships”</i></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, what use is the good news that
you can never share?</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And, sober fact of life, coming
out becomes better for you when you can share your new life with people around
you<a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110620094419.htm">,
who are supportive and knowledgeable</a>. Can one do that in Uganda?</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The answer is that yes, we can.<br />
It is possible, but<b><u> you run
considerable risk.</u></b> You have to asses the risk, your risk, and only you
can do that.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">We live lives filled with the fear
and paranoia of being discovered. Our fears are justified, many times and that
is not a good thing. Yet, it is also matter of fact that we somehow negotiate a
balance in our lives. As kuchus, in homophobic Uganda. And, it is true that
there are people that we can rely on. Some real good friends. Some members of
our families. But, please, choose very carefully who you break this precious
secret to.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">We all have stories…, and these
stories can help or hinder other kuchus. The most important thing for you,
kuchu, to remember, if you feel that you need to come out and disclose to some
of your significant others family and friends, is that they can be hostile. And
that hostility can turn deadly.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the same time, coming out to
some, even if they might not like it, might cause them to think over weeks and
months, and they might be there for you. Maybe in part, maybe not. It is a real
risk, and no one can do the risk assessment for you. </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
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</span></p><p class="MsoHeading7"><span style="font-size: large;">Coming out to Yourself: Coming Out and Disclosure in
Uganda, other Hostile environments (2)</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">If it is so hostile in Uganda, and
most of Africa to be homosexual, (LGBTQ+), kuchu, then why should someone ‘come
out’?</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">For the simplest and most
uplifting of reasons. For yourself.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">You come out to yourself, because
it will do you damn great and wonderful good. This is a step that you must take
to acknowledge who and what you are. Otherwise, you keep yourself blind and
deaf and real dumb, in this life that you will not have a re-do.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kuchu. LGBTQ+ individual.<br />
Understand that you literally had no say in who and what you are. Blame it on a
Creator God or anything in your spirituality, but understand the basic, you are
who you are, and had no say in who you are. Stop hiding from yourself.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can try to run away from
yourself.<br />
Oh, we all have done that. Some of us are still doing that. We are running, and
running, and running, as fast as we can, from our selves.<br />
And, it is simply not possible. We are who we are. We take who we are
everywhere we go, be it our beds, our houses, our schools; even to our
marriages and into the marital beds. We go there, as who and what we are.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">You owe yourself that
acknowledgment, of who you are. Understanding that the world being who and what
it is, you are still who and what you are. Stop running, and acknowledge and
know and understand yourself.<br />
You are different. You are kuchu. You are you. <br />
And you deserve to come out to yourself, more than anything on this earth. You
need to begin knowing who you are.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">No. I am not telling you to tell
anyone else.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am telling you to tell YOU that
it is truth. You are kuchu. Believe the evidence of your eyes. Accept who and
what you are. It is worth it, and you deserve to acknowledge it. You owe it, to
you. You owe yourself a coming out.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">You don’t owe that understanding,
that ‘coming out’ to anyone else. You owe it to YOU, and you alone. That should
be your single most important consideration. Treat yourself well, stop hiding
from who YOU are.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are benefits to admitting to
yourself that you are kuchu.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">You will stop running on the
inside. You will stop hiding from yourself. You will get a boost to your mental
health. You will just be… happy. That bit more happy than you are. And that
will help you to get over this little step in your life and plan a little bit
more realistically, than having to do what others tell you to do, and do other
things because you fear being you.<br />
So, yes. Come out, to yourself. Take that step, in your mind. Know, admit, that
you are kuchu.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Research has actually shown that
there are mental health benefits to coming out. But, that research has been in
countries where coming out means telling people around who can support you.
That is a very tough thing in most of Africa. Though, again, knowing yourself,
stopping the denial will be a boost to you, in your life, even if you don’t
tell anyone else.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the things that I
definitely know happens when we accept who and what we are is that you become
more resistant to the charlatans and liars and anti-gay activists who tell us
that they can make us straight. Doesn’t matter whether they are in church, or
mosque, priest, pastor or Sheikh. They prey on your fear, and will take you
through hell and close to suicide before you break and run away from them. <br />
Knowing and understanding and accepting that you are kuchu is one of the single
most defences that you will have against them. The Ssempa’s of this world prey
upon our insecurities. Coming out to yourself denies them a way into your mind
to confuse you.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course coming out to yourself
is always a boost. We are naturally curious. After bursting that dam in your
mind, you will want to know more about who and what you are. There are quite a
few resources, online, and not. And of course there are kuchus all around you,
some of whom have had the same experiences. Now you might be more ready to engage
and listen to them.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘Coming out’ to yourself is a
crucial step. But, it is only a first step, potentially opening up your mind to
the wonders and opportunities out there. You will start with baby steps. That
is absolutely fine. The pace is yours, the mind is yours, the body is yours.<br />
When you are no longer in ‘denial’ of who and what you are, you are ready to
start the healing that only you can source and help happen to you.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
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</xml><![endif]--> </p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Coming out.<br />
It’s a very necessary concept, to us kuchus. First studied and defined relative
to ‘western’ culture it still holds true for LGBTQ+ individuals everywhere on
this small ball of mud we call earth. Because we are a special grade of normal
human being…!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">LGBTQ+ studies have a fairly
extensive tradition in the west, less so in our environment.<br />
As kuchus, <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/kuchus-are-african.html">we
predate colonial times in Africa</a>. Experiences of LGBTQ+ kuchus, before the introduction
of <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/columnists/muniini-k-mulera/homosexuality-a-medical-doctor-s-perspective-4194658">state
sponsored and religion defined homophobia</a> must have been quite different. This
would definitely have defined our ‘coming out’ as the experience is culture
specific. Sadly, we are left with little written down of the experienced lives
of the kuchu then.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">As defined at the moment, ‘Coming
Out’ is a mix (conflation) of one’s personal realisation that one is different
and subsequent disclosure to family and friends. <br />
First is that realisation that even though most of one’s world is heterosexual,
one is ‘other than heterosexual’. Just different.<br />
One then presumably gathers enough understanding of their sexuality to be able
to ‘come out’ and disclose or voluntarily tell significant others close to
them; the nucleus family and supportive close friends. This coming out helps
with continued normal growth and development of the young person.<br />
Of course our world is freaky. This ‘happily-ever-after’ bed time story remains
a bed time dream even in the fabled Kuchu (LGBTQ+) knowledgeable and friendly
west. ‘Homophobia’ is a wide prejudice and lived experience. And <a href="https://www.allure.com/story/coming-out-process-physical-mental-pain-relief">coming
out can go wrong</a>, or <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230608-how-families-can-support-lgbt-teens">be
delayed</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our environment, in Uganda and in
Africa in general is hostile. You can die simply because you have told someone
that you are different. Your parents, your family, your very friends can be the
most dangerous of confidantes. Disclosing to them that you are kuchu,
different, might mean being cast out. From friends, from family, from
everything that you feel is precious in life. It might mean being pressured to
the indignity of a ‘family intervention’, urged into the arms of anti-gay
bigots for ‘healing and a cure’ of that which is not broken.<br />
Disclosing that you are kuchu is simply something that we might not have the
luxury of doing. You <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/homo-in-uganda-natural-life-in-prison.html">would
risk prison and death</a> too, in Uganda.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, ‘Coming Out’ is not just
‘disclosure’ or telling people that you are kuchu. ‘Coming out’ the
psychological concept, starts with us. Us as in the individual concerned.<br />
Me, the individual, understanding and accepting and acknowledging that I am not
heterosexual. That I am different. That I am kuchu.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">You might be anywhere on the
‘alphabet’ (LGBTQ+). Coming out to yourself is still the first step in
self-acceptance, in becoming whole as a human being, not cutting yourself off
from part of what you are.<br />
That is why it is so important.<br />
If you don’t have this self-realisation, this self-acknowledgment, this moment
of self-revelation, it is like you remain incomplete, always. And yes, that
causes problems. A first step, the full journey not known, but an important
first step.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Uganda, and Africa, for an LGBTQ+
individual of any shade, a kuchu, it is a supremely hostile environment. My
sincere pity to the young that are kuchu like me- the journey is tough. But,
that is not to only say I feel pity. You will be forged in fires. If you
survive, why, you will be scarred, but strong. And that is important, in our
environment.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Coming out to one’s self. That
journey. When I read of this account, of someone who knew that t<a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230608-how-families-can-support-lgbt-teens">hey
were gay, homosexual at 10 years of age</a>, I shook my head in wonder. Not
because I didn’t believe it. But because that depth of insight into our very
self is denied us by conditions on the continent. Of course we get the usual
stirrings of hormones at puberty…, but, the mind is a huge and terrible
machine.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Coming out in our environment.
First we know that we cannot be homosexual, before we even understand what the
words mean. Then we soak in the hate and bile and wretchedness on the airwaves.
And then we get to start feeling that we are different, and, horror of horrors,
we are the demented, deviled, horrible and cursed, homosexuals.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">No wonder our minds and selves
hide from the facts.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cruising the net, I <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/sickness-misery-shedding-stones-first-150000712.html">came
across this article of a lady</a> that was morbidly obese. And, she was so
deeply in denial she couldn’t ‘see’ that she was. She was aware, and the mind
shunted the knowledge away safely. Even when she moved all full length mirrors
out of the house, and did other things to make sure the unconscious knowledge of
her obesity didn’t register in her own conscious mind.<br />
Those extremes of denial by us kuchus are common place in Uganda, and in much
of Africa, and for many LGBTQ+ individuals who can pass. We blind ourselves to
who and what we are, even when that knowledge screams for attention in our
minds.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">That is to say, we go deep in denial,
if we have the luxury of passing.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">A very important distinction; the
luxury of passing. Most of us kuchus in Africa have to learn very, very, very
early to pass or safely mimic heterosexuals. A few of us don’t pass that
crucial test. And, I can only wonder at how they surf the waves of prejudice
and frank hatred in their lives.<br />
My love and hugs to them. They bear the brunt of hostility because they are
‘effeminate’ or sissies or too manly or ‘butch’. Some might actually be
heterosexual, but this world of ours is a brutal jungle for anyone perceived
‘homosexual’, whether it is true or not.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, if most of us have learnt to
hide, and hide well..,</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why the hell should we do this
‘coming out’? That is for the next post.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
<p></p>gayugandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079301892908040760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342765803257372958.post-791846345864500322023-08-04T17:15:00.000+03:002023-08-04T17:15:21.644+03:00Mother Nature’s Natural Diversity of Sexuality<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Quite often, those who don’t
understand us claim we, Kuchus (or LGBTQ+ people) are <i>‘un-natural’</i>. So wicked and deformed that<i> ‘even animals don’t do what we do’</i>. That is, have sex between
individuals of the same sex.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">That accusation can be quite
potent, and cutting, in Africa. In Uganda.<br />
In our environment, we are soaked in ignorance about sex and sexuality; a conservative
reticence about such intimate issues, a general lack of understanding of sex
and sexuality and, complete ignorance and myths about sex other than
heterosexual sex (in the missionary position). We kuchus have to educate
ourselves to the facts of life, swimming past the prejudice, and ignorance, and
frank lies as told in our world.<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Because
Mother Nature and the Creator, in their purported wisdom and knowledge, don’t
know the constraints that we humans hand to them. </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Sexual Diversity is natural and
part of nature.</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don’t know about ‘making them
male and female’. I don’t know about the ‘couples of Noah’s Ark’.<br />
What I know is that the natural world has <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals">abundant
evidence of Same Sex behaviours in multiple animals and birds</a>. And that
there are quite a number of examples in nature of animals switching sexes
(true) and even flipping genders as necessary. Without provoking hell fires and
brimstone, no.<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Humans are naïve and inquisitive..,
and of course sex is one of the most interesting things on earth (I confess!).
The little that we know as a matter of fact is amazing. Anti-gay,
anti-homosexuality activists who dismiss us as being ‘un-natural’, ‘worse than
animals’, ‘deranged’ are simply ignorant, a very common human ailment, curable
by knowledge.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nature has <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals">galleons of
evidence of Same Sex behaviour</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">To date, same sex behaviour has
been observed and confirmed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals">more than
1,500 animal species</a>. The more we study animals and observe them in sexual
behaviour, the more that is confirmed. <a href="https://www.capetalk.co.za/articles/479160/male-rhesus-macaques-often-have-sex-together-a-trait-inherited-from-parents">Multiple
studies</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals">Multiple
observers</a>. Over a whole length of time since we humans started
observations, from our domesticated animals!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">In some species, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12282635/Scientists-72-male-macaque-monkeys-bisexual.html">experts
actually note</a>:</span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>… 'Within a select number of
species, homosexual activity is widespread and occurs at levels that approach
or sometimes even surpass heterosexual activity.' </b></i><span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">And, with regards to how widespread
same sex behaviour might be, it is noted;</span></span></p><p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">““Some studies claim homosexuality
may be a common as being found in up to 95 percent of all animal species””</span></b></i></p><p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Those observations apply to
observed same sex behaviour by animals. And birds. And yes, even insects and
others!<br />
It is important to appreciate that Same Sex Behaviour is not simply sex: genital
contact to orgasm. It is nuanced and varied. Grooming, genital contact, and frank
intercourse occur. But so does social coupling, courtship, forming of long
lasting pairs, parenting and nurturing of offspring like eggs, taking care of
younglings as a couple. Seems like instead of ‘copying’ what heterosexual
couples do, as our detractors say,( laughing at LGBTQ+ families,) we are
actually reproducing in human life what occurs spontaneously in nature. Even to
the forming of family/clan groups that are <a href="https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/flamingos-make-long-lasting-friendships-same-sex-bonds-and-married-couplings">safe
spaces for the same sex couple, (kudos flamingos!).</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><u><span style="font-size: large;">Sex switching, gender switching.</span></u></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And, shame…, we worry about the
rightness and wrongness of human sexual behaviour? Nature, in nature, there is
shameless switching and flipping of the sexes. Go worry about your ‘morality’,
and the simple changing of the dress covering you (or girls dressing like boys
etc)…, nature very conveniently and naturally switches the sex, <a href="https://www.vaildaily.com/opinion/curious-nature-pride-in-the-wild-queer-ecology-and-queerness-in-nature/">as
and when nature believes it necessary</a>. Now, isn’t that amazing!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“For example, clownfish exhibit
gender nonconformity. All clownfish are born male , but the dominant males in
the school turn female to lay eggs and reproduce.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“Hawkfish, on the other hand, are
even more gender nonconforming. They are born female, but once reaching
adulthood, they can switch back and forth between male and female depending on
the favorability in a given situation.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;">And those are not the only sex switching animals. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite#Animals">Check out this site
on Wikipedia</a>. Just follow the references at the bottom of the page.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why, why that humongous diversity
in mother nature?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don’t know the reasons why. It
is, which is simply amazing to the likes of me. But as to why there is such a
huge diversity of sexuality in nature, I don’t know, and apparently t<a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2381784-sex-between-two-males-is-extremely-common-in-wild-macaque-monkeys/">he
experts themselves don’t know</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some speculate that it is nature
being nature. It simply doesn’t have to explain to proud, hubris prone humanity
what is. We observe, we perceive and see what is. We accept, or not. Nature
continues to be nature. If we haven’t worked out the reasons, that is OUR
problem as inquisitive humans. Nature simply is. <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/male-monkeys-have-more-homosexual-sex-than-straight-sex-study-shows">We
speculate this</a>;</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">“There have been many different
theories – including not enough females, establishing dominance, or blowing off
steam – that may explain why animals might engage in homosexual behavior.<br />
But the researchers believe their observations actually support a whole new
theory – that the males who have sex together have an evolutionary advantage
over their heterosexual counterparts.”</span></b></i></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Others speculate that same sex
behaviour helps to protect the pack directly or indirectly, protecting the
group’s child-bearing members or even an insurance policy for offspring. The
pack benefits in passing on genetics to off-spring, rather than a particular
individual. Or it is practice for more effective sex leading to child bearing.
Or it is to aid in social bonds. The reasons are many, and pure speculation.<a href="https://www.capetalk.co.za/articles/479160/male-rhesus-macaques-often-have-sex-together-a-trait-inherited-from-parents">
We don’t know. We just know it is.</a></span> </p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nature is humbling. Truly
humbling.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It would be a lie to say I knew
all this stuff before; and of course lots of people, kuchu and non-kuchu don’t
know it. Maybe in the rarefied airs of universities.., but this is real life,
nature out there, breathing and thinking and moving, even as we hit each other
on the head. It is humbling.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Utility? For now, I don’t know.
But good news to know that I am not weird, nor as ‘un-natural’ as I am famously
known to be in Uganda, and in Africa. The mud is muddy, and sticky. Takes good
knowledge to challenge and slough it off. And to actually wonder, what else is
actually hidden, right out there in plain sight?<br />
I humbly <a href="https://www.vaildaily.com/opinion/curious-nature-pride-in-the-wild-queer-ecology-and-queerness-in-nature/">use
the final words in the short article</a> that set me off on this investigative
journey.</span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">“quote from Alex Johnson of Orion
Magazine, who wrote about this topic: </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“What, then, is natural? All of
it. None of it. Instead of using the more-than-human world as justification for
or against certain behavior and characteristics, let’s use the more-than-human
world as a humbling indication of the capacity and diversity of all life on
Earth.””</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
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</p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most Kuchus (LGBTQ+ Africans) on
the continent relate to this strongly. We have been accused, heavily and with
deep passion, of targeting children <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/children-being-recruited-into-homosexuality-says-kaziimba-4062100">‘recruiting
children to homosexuality’</a>. That was the Church of Uganda Anglican
Archbishop’s 2022 Christmas message. Anti-LGBTQ+ advocates preach of our
legendary perversity. Politicians<a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/deputy-speaker-calls-for-probe-on-homosexuality-in-schools-4098242">
shed crocodile tears.</a> Apparently we have recruitment centres in schools!<br />
Its infuriating. Most <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/uganda-homosexuals-recruiting-your.html">kuchus
know it is simply untrue</a>. Reputed allies are disturbed by the possibility.
I commented on <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/myths-and-misconceptions-from-gideon.html">Rev
Gideon Byamugisha’s fear here once</a>. Anti-gay activists repeatedly harp on
it, a dishonesty I will hold to their feet. They are liars. Many know they are.
It is simply impossible to believe the likes of Martin Ssempa don’t know that
most kuchus are not paedophiles. That he harps on it is a simple sign of his
capacity at lying. Oh, I once blogged about Ssempa and his lies…, He has
mastered the Art of the Big Lie. And if that demonises kuchus, that is well and
good. Yes, I know.., he is a Pentecostal Pastor.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Back to the power of a story, or anecdote.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">As opposed to a statistic, a story
is something that an audience hears, understands and relates to. Real people,
in real circumstances, doing real things, good or bad. A story communicates
very well, to a wide audience.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I remember watching tv during the
early days of CORVID-19; A press conference, President Trump and Dr Fauci.<br />
The President was advocating for some weird treatment; chloroquine, or bleach
as a cure. And Fauci stands up, quite bravely, contradicting His Excellency.
What His Excellency had stated was not true: He had told a story, an anecdote,
of a treatment curing corvid. But that was a story of one person, one patient,
one individual. "n is equal to one”, said Fauci, puzzling us all.<br />
You don’t make decisions from an anecdote; they might help you understand what
is happening, but you need a bigger and better sample size of thousands or
millions, instead of one.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">What does that have to do with
kuchus and LGBTQ+ individuals and ‘recruiting’ of children in Africa, what we
are blamed for?<br />
Very simple. The anti-gay people are picking and choosing anecdotal
information, pointing to show what the ‘dreaded homosexuals’ are; and <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/uganda-homosexuals-recruiting-your.html">coming
for your children</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Remember Ssempa in 2012-14 showing
<a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2010/02/ssempas-infamy.html" target="_blank">gay porn in church</a> and other public spaces. Gross, XXX pics and movies of
extreme sex; that that’s how we (‘homosexuals’) had sex! Which kuchu would dare
contradict the ‘man of god’? He was the expert, the Anti-Gay Saint of Uganda, expert
on homosexual sex.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The press in Uganda and Africa
does the same. Stories on ‘homosexuality’ or ‘sodomy’ sell papers. The more
lurid, sensational (and fabricated, pushed by anti-gay activists), the better. A
straight line to silent, bewildered kuchus. </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/19-year-old-detained-over-sodomy-4243028">one
such story</a>.<br />
Of ‘defilement’ Ugandanese term for sex with an under-age person. A child
(under 18, Uganda). The child is the 'victim’.<br />
It is not a pretty story. A 19 year old man allegedly had penetrative anal sex
of a 2 year old male child; neighbour’s child. <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/19-year-old-detained-over-sodomy-4243028">The
lurid details.</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Almost as an afterthought, the
following statement<a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/19-year-old-detained-over-sodomy-4243028">
ends the report</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~</span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-BFSVbPFiF5bl91Wuea4PLG0mo2yE08Se-sGITArEMaYTlHQftpBpfXgUWZqdPvHCrFHk_07DGp3LSrUO7QhHZBhazPXsOMEKpp-RLwLhdsY43Bq_EC0zistRgQFNi5dONXgVoUL3Ma44WSzVimO_TcwR5kOd0ilawwuRGoKZbnOhEE48X4M4v2FaE8c/s704/Defilement%20Uganda.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="111" data-original-width="704" height="101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-BFSVbPFiF5bl91Wuea4PLG0mo2yE08Se-sGITArEMaYTlHQftpBpfXgUWZqdPvHCrFHk_07DGp3LSrUO7QhHZBhazPXsOMEKpp-RLwLhdsY43Bq_EC0zistRgQFNi5dONXgVoUL3Ma44WSzVimO_TcwR5kOd0ilawwuRGoKZbnOhEE48X4M4v2FaE8c/w640-h101/Defilement%20Uganda.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘Defilement’ cases in Uganda are
almost exclusively of male perpetrators. That report of is 12,780 cases of
heterosexual ‘defilement’, with the rest being of male victims, and thus
presumed ‘homosexual defilement’. And this is from the Police Annual Crime
report for the calendar period 2022.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">From that report springs out the
factoid, small but significant. Most of the reported cases of sex with
under-aged, children, were heterosexual in nature.<br />
My calculator of those figures shows that <b><i><u>heterosexual ‘defilement’ cases of 2022
reported by Uganda Police in their annual report were actually 98% of the
total.</u></i></b> <i><u>The presumed
‘homosexual defilement’ cases were 2% of the total</u></i> number of reported
cases of defilement.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, the lurid story in <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/19-year-old-detained-over-sodomy-4243028">that
article ’19 year old detained over sodomy’</a> represents 2% of cases of
defilement occurring in Uganda over a calendar year.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">This article, useful in demonising
‘homosexuals’ in Uganda, represented 2% of cases.<br />
Instead of a wave of ‘homosexual recruitment of your children’, what is
happening is in fact ‘heterosexual recruitment’ of the said children.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">That is the power of the
‘anecdote’ in the minds of the masses. <br />
The story can be cherry picked, not representative of reality on the ground,
can be picked to mask the real story, hiding what should be obvious in plain
sight and might be a distraction. That is what happened with Fauci and Trump
above. That is<span> </span>what is happening in
Uganda.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is sad, on very many levels.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are an insignificant, demonised
and stigmatised minority. Prejudice by the majority is a heavy blanket muting
us. Even our cries of ‘that’s a lie’ are not heard.<br />
The politicians say we are the ones lying. The pastors and sheikhs and bishops
all say we are the ones lying. We don’t even have a place and space to say we
are not lying. That would be ‘Promotion of Homosexuality’.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, the facts and figures don’t
lie.<br />
We are accused of ‘homosexual recruitment’ of Ugandan children. In actual fact,
‘heterosexual recruitment’ of Ugandan children is occurring. <i><u>Instead of what is happening in 98% of
cases being discussed and solutions sought, anecdotes from 2% of case reports
are blown up and out of proportion</u></i>, and used to bay for our blood, in
the literal sense.<br />
Sleight of hand, yes. Quite effective, true. Doesn’t solve the problem; only
masks the issues and scapegoats a minority. Yeah; Ugandan, and African style.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
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</p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">Tongue in
cheek, that title.<br />
There is this organisation in Ghana a promoter of ‘Proper Human Rights’.
Apparently its promotion of proper human rights includes support of the anti-<a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/ghana-anti-homosexuality-bill-what-does.html">LGBTQ+
bill currently in Ghana’s parliament</a>.<br />
And Stephen Kaziimba, Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Anglican also had an
interesting argument. As he whipped the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 he
intimated that the LGBTQ+ agenda had corrupted ‘proper human rights’ </span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">Sarcasm
over the top? No. <br />
Dr Justine Appiah Kubi is an executive member of the <b><i>Coalition for Proper Human Sexual
Rights and Family Values</i></b>, <span> </span>He </span><a href="https://myjoyonline.com/lgbtq-bill-ghanas-not-as-stringent-as-that-of-uganda-dr-appiah-kubi/">supports
the Ghana anti-homosexuality bill,</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> <span> </span>the ‘Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights
and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2022’;.<br />
A proud Ghanaian, he lauds the Ghanaian bill for being not as intolerant as the
Ugandan law…, and bearing the beneficence and tolerance of Ghanaian culture. <br />(<i>I am Ugandan…, I would agree as to Ugandan
intolerance, if I didn’t know that at the moment there are reports of Ghanaian
Kuchus being viciously attacked, stabbed in broad day light, on the streets of
Accra, and Ghanaian twitterati championing the ‘straightening’.)</i></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">Says </span><a href="https://myjoyonline.com/lgbtq-bill-ghanas-not-as-stringent-as-that-of-uganda-dr-appiah-kubi/">Justine
Appiah Kubi;</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i>“.., the
bill is tolerant enough to ensure that no harm befalls individuals in the queer
community, although Ghanaians might not condone LGBT and its activities.</i></b></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i>This
level of tolerance, Dr. Appiah-Kubi emphasised, is reflective of the Ghanaian
culture. </i></b></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i>Additionally,
he described the bill as a good one, explaining that, “the spirit of the bill
wasn’t necessarily to really hurt people who are into homosexuality, but really
to prevent these absurd, LGBT things that are coming to nations and using
political strategies, using UN, using the other CSOs” to champion their
agenda.” </i></b></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">What do I
know about Human Rights?</span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">Actually
I know very little. Surface stuff. It is human rights. Concerns human beings.
And rights being what we believe human beings are supposedly entitled to. And
rights imply responsibilities.</span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">What does
the Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill actually state? I posted what </span><a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/ghana-anti-homosexuality-bill-what-does.html">could
be gathered from the media on Ghana’s bill.</a></span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i>Identifying
as LGBT is criminalised. 3 years in prison.</i></b></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i>Advocacy
is criminalised. 10 years in prison<br />
Campaigning for LGBT rights, dissemination of information</i></b></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i>Conversion
therapy (from LGBTQ to straight sexual orientation!) is validated.</i></b></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i>limits
provision of health services to the LGBTQ+ community. Including HIV services.</i></b></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 72.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i>encourages
citizens to report neighbours that are homosexual.</i></b></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">Last time
looked into the mirror, I was a human being.<br />
We are human beings, and as such, human rights do concern us. Personally, I
would think that that is hard to parse.<br />
Stephen Kaziimba, Archbishop is not convinced. </span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">Here is
what the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Anglican, Dr Steven Kaziimba
Mugalu had to say, on at least 3 occasions, when he was whipping up pressure on
the President to sign the bill into law.</span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i>“Homosexuality
is currently a challenge because it is being forced on us by foreign actors
against our will, against our culture, and against our religious beliefs. They
disguise themselves as human rights activists but are corrupting real human
rights by adding LGBTQI+ to their agenda,” he said.</i></b><br />
t</span><a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/kaziimba-asks-ministers-to-return-iron-sheets--4190926">he
pre-Easter message from</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> the Archbishop.</span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i>““They
disguise themselves as “human rights activists,” but are corrupting real human
rights by adding LGBTQI+ to their agenda.”</i></b><br />
That</span><a href="https://www.independent.co.ug/easter-message-archbishop-kaziimba-asks-president-to-save-uganda/">
was the Easter Sunday summon</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">, 2023</span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i>“being
forced on us by outside, foreign actors against our will, against our culture,
and against our religious beliefs. They disguise themselves as “human rights
activists,” but are corrupting real human rights by adding LGBTQ to their
agenda.”</i></b><br />
</span><a href="https://churchofuganda.org/blog/2023/05/29/church-of-uganda-grateful-for-anti-homosexuality-act-2023/">lavish
thanks to the President for signing the Bill</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> into
law.</span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">So, what
is the promotion of human rights with the exclusion of LGBTQ+ rights?<br />
Now, that is the true head scratching moment.<br />
Are Kuchus human? Are African LGBTQ+ people actual living human beings? Are
they worth inclusion in the conversation about basic, inviolable rights that
other human beings, other Africans, are entitled to?</span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">Not
rhetorical.<br />
</span><a href="https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/africa/African-Union-must-adopt-a-common-position-on-LGBTQ-activities-Industrialist-1801742">Ghanaian
industrialist, William Mensah-Ansah</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> was quite
confused and confusing about the issue.<br />
How do you protect individual human rights without recognising that LGBTQ+
Africans are actually individuals whose rights have to be protected? </span><a href="https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/africa/African-Union-must-adopt-a-common-position-on-LGBTQ-activities-Industrialist-1801742">He
was confused</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">, but advocates a common African
position in the African Charter for African nations around the exclusion of rights
for Kuchus. LGBTQ+ Africans.</span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">Are
Kuchus, LGBTQ+ Africans human enough to be included in the Human Rights that the
rest of African human beings should enjoy? A profound question, because, in the
African, Ugandan and Ghanaian and other context, LGBTQ+ rights are so ‘foreign’
that they cannot even think of rights for the homosexual. We have been
thoroughly dehumanised, in their eyes. No longer human, it is okay to kill us,
legally in the eyes of the law. Because we are inhuman.</span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">Rhetorical
flourishes those? I really, really wish it was so. But, my dear brothers and
sisters, my fellow Africans, do not really think the LGBTQ+ human being is
human, even our African-ness is debatable.</span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">gug</span></span></p>
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</p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ask someone on the streets of
Kampala about the premier foreign supporters of homosexuality and the most
probable answer will be ‘the Americans’.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who are these dastardly
‘Americans’?<br />
That answer has lots of nuances which a poor Ugandan will most likely not even
understand. They just know that the<a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/medics-say-no-to-un-us-claims-on-gay-aids-4251486">
name of ‘the enemy’ is ‘the Americans’</a>; -that was no slip of the tongue
from the doctor.<br />
And, it is not only in Uganda. In Tanzania, Zambia, <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1232162/the-agony-of-mp-sam-george-for-opposing-the-legali.html">Ghana</a>,
Zimbabwe, it is ‘the Americans’ who are reportedly eager to press the poor
African to embrace homosexuality.<br />
It bothers me, a lot. . We are invisible! We kuchus, we the African LGBTQ+
individuals, <span> </span>are not even counted as ‘<a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/promoting-homosexuality-ugandas-anti.html">promoting
homosexuality’</a>, except as agents of ‘The Americans’.<span> </span>We are just the proximal cancer, the ‘cancer’
that is already here and has to be removed…, tut tut tut!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The question is also nuanced,
because it is Americans who have come to Africa and <a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/lgbtq/white-christian-nationalists-shape-ugandas-anti-gay-laws">told
us that ‘the Americans’</a> are pushing a ‘homosexual agenda’.<br />
Oh yes, the <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/americas-cultural-wars-frontline-africa.html">American
Far Right is also American!</a> (Check out the reporting on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/03/ugandan-president-calls-on-africa-to-save-the-world-from-homosexuality">one
such conference in Uganda)</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">For some reason, maybe because
they come in with Bibles and talk about ‘African Sovereignty’ and talk about
‘the Americans’, we simply don’t equate those Americans with ‘the Americans’.
Quite confusing…</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The dastardly, bad and evil
‘Americans’ supposedly control the world, the UN system, and promote
homosexuality. They are apparently characterised by President Biden and Vice-President
Kamara Harris. The current administration of course.<br />
So, who are the others, the ‘good Americans’, intent on telling us poor,
ignorant Africans about the dangers from the ‘bad Americans?’</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trying to figure out the ins and
outs of <a href="https://thegrio.com/2023/07/06/white-christian-nationalists-are-exporting-homophobia-and-pushing-antigay-laws-in-africa/">America’s
Cultural Wars as exported to Africa…,</a><br />
I am really laughing and crying and kind of feeling deeply ashamed. We are
literally pawns in a forever war. We are a battle on the side, our leaders
colluding in something they don’t understand at all, but are passionate and
very, very willing front line warriors.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">No, I am not, and I will not be
apologising to my people.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am one individual, a very poor
person. I don’t have the facilities of the State. I just have an internet
connection, and I read what is publicly available on the internet.<br />
Why shouldn’t the President of the Republic of Uganda have good intelligence of
what is happening in his backyard? Why doesn’t he know of what is happening
with his allies the US government? Why should President Museveni be a pawn in a
game that he should be very, very aware that it has been ongoing for years?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Presidency, the State of
Uganda is not one person. It is a pool of the intelligence of the nation, of
all those working there.<br />
And then of course there is the Parliament of Uganda. The MPs; Asumani
Basalirwa and the others, the Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda are all
willing dupes and pawns, frontline soldiers in this war. The <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/americas-cultural-wars-frontline-africa.html">American
Cultural Wars</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is quite disturbing to realise
that even if the State in Uganda is apparently clueless, the Church of Uganda,
Anglican and its Archbishop (Stephen Kaziimba), is actually quite clued in.
Archbishop Kaziimba is <a href="https://anglican.ink/2023/06/14/archbishop-of-canterbury-lacks-the-moral-justification-to-challenge-gafcon-for-rejecting-homosexuality/">playing
on the world stage</a>, and <a href="https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/archbishop-of-uganda-speaks-out-against-welby-s-criticism-of-anti-homosexuality-policy">he
knows it</a>. So are the <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/calling-out-ugandan-catholic-churchs.html">very,
very silent Catholic Bishops.</a> They know, and have picked a side. How can
the State of Uganda claim and act ignorance?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why does the State and other public
actors like Parliament in Uganda seem to be personally unaware of the body
politic of the whole wide world?<br />
Why are they playing into the stereotype of the poor, ‘put-upon-on’, ignorant
African? This is not ‘rocket science’. This is knowledge of the world.<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.independent.co.ug/anti-homosexuality-law-case-mover-explains-why-judges-might-rule-in-fear/">Asuumani
Basalirwa claimed</a> to the BBC that he didn’t know because he was a Moslem,
and the missionaries are Christians. Lies, on top of the bullshit. He should be
even more ashamed because he is playing pawn for ‘Christian Fundamentalists’,
from his point of view.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Truly, truly, Uganda is a Village.<br />
It doesn’t help that Ghana is also acting clueless, Ugandan style. And of
course so are the other nations of Africa. Believing that ‘some Americans’ come
to Africa to teach us about our own ‘Sovereignty’ to fight their own government,
simply for the good of old Africa.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
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</p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">When the Anti-Homosexuality Act,
2023 was signed into law in Uganda, the heads of Uganda’s international
partners in the fight against HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS, PEPFAR, Global Fund) <a href="https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2023/may/20230529_uganda-anti-homosexuality-act">came
out with a statement telling Uganda</a> that was a bad move.<br />
UNAIDS and its partners have always advocated for decriminalisation of same sex
sexuality <a href="https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2023/may/20230517_idahobit">one
of the major ways of HIV prevention</a>. That is historical fact, so the
statement should not have been a surprise.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Uganda, the public sphere went amok.<br />
‘The Americans’ were threatening to kill poor innocent Ugandans simply to
spread and promote homosexuality. Cries of ‘blackmail’ and ‘bring it on’ were
heard from Ugandan leaders, influencers and other concerned Ugandans. Our
‘sovereignty’ was defined under attack, our dependency on foreign aid decried
and lambasted. Quite a lot was said-, quite a lot which should not have been
said.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, why should the HIV prevention
efforts of Uganda be affected?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Simply because of the law. The
Anti-Homosexuality Act; 2023.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The US spends almost half a
billion dollars annually on a comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention and care
programme in Uganda. This is distinctly different from the military aid that is
also under attack. These monies go on HIV/AIDS prevention and care, including
some 1,2 Million Ugandans on life saving and life prolonging drugs.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Inevitably, since LGBTQ+
individuals are a key vulnerable population in HIV, there are programmes and
clinics that focus on the LGBTQ+ population for prevention and care.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/promoting-homosexuality-ugandas-anti.html">text
of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 as written</a>; there is a<a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/duty-to-report-homosexuals-in-uganda.html">
Reporting mandate</a>, and more that w<a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/promoting-homosexuality-ugandas-anti.html">ould
impact HIV/AIDS programming</a>.<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><b>HIV/AIDS
prevention and care for ‘homosexuals’ is ‘Promotion of Homosexuality’, and was
clearly defined in the law as such.<br />
<br />
</b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><b>In that
case, funders for the ‘promotion of homosexuality’ were criminalised. <br />
Since USAID and PEPFAR (the American government) fund those clinics and
organisations, USAID, PEPFAR and the American Government are clearly breaking
the law of Uganda, and ‘promoting homosexuality’ by funding HIV/AIDS prevention
and care in Uganda.<br />
<br />
</b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><b>Organisations
that work with homosexuals in HIV/AIDS are also very clearly ‘promoting
homosexuality’ and are criminalised in Uganda, according to the
Anti-Homosexuality Act.<br />
<br />
</b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><b>Landlords
who house the above organisations are also quite clearly criminalised in the
Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 of Uganda.<br />
<br />
</b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><b>In
another part of the Act, good Ugandans are encouraged to report the known ‘homosexual’
to Police.<br />
The reporting mandate excluded lawyers, but it doesn’t exclude health care
workers who include HIV/AIDS care workers, doctors to other extension workers. <br />
<br />
</b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Clearly, the law was a problem. <br />
The American Ambassador to Uganda took it upon herself to have some discussions
with relevant government people. Besides the real investment in funding over
multiple decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, a lot of people could die, simply
because there is a law against the ‘promotion of homosexuality’.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the flying accusations of
blackmail, telling the Americans to fuck off, with the Ministry of Health
denying a problem as per its spokesperson, and other medics coming out and
seeing nefarious reasons, aka, ‘promotion of homosexuality, the head of <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/medics-say-no-to-un-us-claims-on-gay-aids-4251486">Uganda
AIDS Commission had a blunt assessment</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>““they are just taking
precautions and saying for communities that may be discriminated, ‘What steps
do we want to put in place to ensure that they continue accessing treatment to
ensure that they continue to access treatment?’”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Apparently, the Minister of
Health, A medical doctor, was unhelpful on the concerns of ‘the Americans’, to
the point that the American envoy’s assessment of her was brutal and blunt.
Maybe she is more concerned for the spiritual safety of Ugandans than their
physical health…, am just saying. Here is <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/museveni-holds-talks-with-us-envoy-over-anti-gay-law-4262456">the
American envoy’s assessmen</a>t of Minister of Health Dr Ruth Aceng;</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“She reportedly took issue with
Health Minister Jane Aceng, who was not in the meeting, saying her disposition
on the matter of homosexuality was likely to reverse years of gains in
healthcare and particularly HIV/Aids treatment, largely supported by
development partners.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The American envoy <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/museveni-holds-talks-with-us-envoy-over-anti-gay-law-4262456">then
took it up with the President</a>. Apparently the discussions were a little
more fruitful.<br />
The<a href="https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2023-06-07-gays-wont-be-arrested-for-seeking-medical-care-museveni/">
President made an announcement</a>, medics and health care workers were not
going to have to report known homosexuals. And of course it was a tacit green
light to continue HIV/AIDS programming with the evil and dastardly, bad
homosexuals, who happen to be citizens of Uganda.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, the whole fracas ended up
being partly resolved.<br />
The US government and its organisations are not going to be hauled to Ugandan
courts for ‘promotion of homosexuality’. The partner organisations in Uganda
are not going to be defunded, nor are they going to be prosecuted, nor will
they be forced to report their homosexual clients.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Turns out ‘the Americans’ were
actually looking out for our people, Ugandans…!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">What a shame? Err, we are fanatics
and zealots in Uganda, on matters of homosexuality. We don’t get ashamed. We
don’t even feel it, nor admit to that nefarious emotion. We are fighters, and
winners, against homosexuals and homosexuality.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I doubt that that saga ends there.
This is Uganda. Keep tuned in!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;">Continued from the previous post: Kuchus and HIV in Africa
(2); The Failure of Africa’s Medics & Health Care Workers (2)</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Uganda has actually had some great
results with HIV prevention and care. It is deservedly praised…, as was
lavishly commented on by the <a href="https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2023/may/20230517_idahobit">UNAIDS/PEPFAR/Global
Fund joint statement</a>.<br />
Although the statement was taken quite negatively in Uganda, I think it was
quite a ‘sucking up’ in many ways. The flattery, even evidence based, is quite
a lot. Maybe Winnie Byanyima, knowing the Ugandan psyche thought it better to
upload with lots of diplomatic nice talk to cushion the bite in the message…</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">If it was that, well, it was a
dud.<br />
Ugandans are quite consistent, and human. We embrace our prejudices with
fervour and our prejudice to ‘homosexuality’ <span> </span>is the mother of all prejudices.Our doctors as
detailed are also prejudiced. They are Ugandans!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, we still expect better of
them. A laughing stork Uganda demands people to blame. The medics are very
convenient here…!<br />
The Director General of Uganda AIDS Commission did explain the issue, though <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/medics-say-no-to-un-us-claims-on-gay-aids-4251486">the
article in the Daily Monitor relegated him</a> to an after-thought. I guess it
was more profitable for the paper to fan the flames of ‘Uganda is being
bullied’!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;">Explains Dr Nelson Musoba, DG of UAC;</span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>““they are just taking
precautions and saying for communities that may be discriminated, ‘What steps
do we want to put in place to ensure that they continue accessing treatment to
ensure that they continue to access treatment?’”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Egg on our collective face as
Ugandans. The conveniently reviled Americans were trying to protect our prize HIV/AIDS
programme? The statement said so. It is our bad faith that read nefarious
‘colonialism’, ‘blackmail’, in their words. Prejudice twists clear thinking.
Uganda collectively was a great example there.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">But this begs the question, with Dr
Nelson Musoba, Director General of Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) knowing these
probable effects of the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 on HIV programming, why
wasn’t the Parliament of Uganda and the President of Uganda in the know? This
is established science, this day and age of the HIV pandemic surely? It wasn’t
‘the Americans’ duty to inform our in-country experts. <br />
Rumour was, Speaker of Parliament was so rushed to pass the bill UAC was not
invited to the party. But, a lot of organisations came out detailing the
probable effects of the proposed law. All that fell ‘on deaf ears’ in Uganda.
No appeal to sanity could have stopped us passing the Anti-Homosexuality Bill,
2023.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why did it fall to the <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/museveni-holds-talks-with-us-envoy-over-anti-gay-law-4262456">US
ambassador in Uganda to actually secure a promise from the President</a> that
the health services <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/duty-to-report-homosexuals-in-uganda.html">would
not be subject to the Reporting mandate</a> in the Anti-Homosexuality Act,
2023?<br />
It is ridiculous when the conveniently reviled Americans seem to care more
about our people than we do. It is shameful, and that shame tracks back to
Uganda’s medics and health care workers, the Ministry of Health and the Uganda
AIDS Commission.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The American envoy to Uganda <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/museveni-holds-talks-with-us-envoy-over-anti-gay-law-4262456">actually
commented this about Dr Jane Aceng</a>, which makes me wonder what Uganda’s
Minister of Health, a medical doctor, has been saying behind closed doors. </span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“She reportedly took issue with
Health Minister Jane Aceng, who was not in the meeting, saying her disposition
on the matter of homosexuality was likely to reverse years of gains in
healthcare and particularly HIV/Aids treatment, largely supported by
development partners.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">That <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/museveni-holds-talks-with-us-envoy-over-anti-gay-law-4262456">is
a loaded statement</a>, particularly coming from a diplomat.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The same challenges are happening
in Ghana. But, in their case, though there are medics and health workers who
don’t understand, it seems the <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1242620/parliament-accepts-motion-on-anti-gay-bill-next.html">Ghana
AIDS Commission has come out against</a> the anti-homosexuality bill in Ghana.<br />
And, for that temerity, Members of Parliament in Ghana are <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1242620/parliament-accepts-motion-on-anti-gay-bill-next.html">condemning
the Ghana AIDS Commission</a>.<br />
I think that that is better than in Uganda where the Ministry of Health seem
both ignorant and unwilling to state facts. The doctors responsibility is to
state the facts, part of that responsibility for the power we hand to our
medics and health workers.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Ghana, the anti-homosexuality
bill in parliament aims to stop or reduce HIV/AIDS programming to Ghanaian
Kuchus. Why? Because <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/ghana-anti-homosexuality-bill-what-does.html">HIV
programming is actually ‘promotion of homosexuality</a>’.<br />
The bills in our parliaments, plural, aim to stop the heinous ‘promotion of
homosexuality’.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">If true, and Ghanaian MPs are
refusing to listen to the Ghana AIDS Commission…, well, please don’t blame ‘the
Americans’ for our own ignorance, and failure to be educated because of
prejudice. We are sovereign in that. </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is the member of the clan who
should point out that the elder didn’t wash face in the morning. Not to wait
for a guest or visitor.<br />
Yeah, and as an African, I am pointing out to my dear leaders and elders-, your
are walking around naked, with unwashed faces. You are embarrassing us, please!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
<p></p>gayugandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079301892908040760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342765803257372958.post-23647638370505266972023-07-20T09:00:00.001+03:002023-07-20T09:00:00.148+03:00Kuchus and HIV in Africa; The Failure of Africa’s Medics & Health Care Workers (2)<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">We esteem our doctors, medical and
other health care workers tremendously in Africa. We should. In a continent
with a dire lack of education, they are our educated elite. They also struggle
to work under some pretty tough conditions, because of a lack of funds, lack of
necessary instruments of care, and lack of political and other support.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">With knowledge comes power,
socially.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Medicine and the health sciences
have a very rich background of study of my sexuality, because we are different
from the common heterosexuality. It is not a new thing.<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>I mean, we Kuchus (LGBTQ+) human beings,
have been under study since life immemorial. We are a uniquely different part
of humanity that persists in life to the contrary of expectations.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, why are our African medical
and health care professionals so clueless with regards to sexuality and other
sexualities?<br />
The excuse that it is not taught in African medical schools is not a good one.
This is the internet age.<br />
But our doctors have failed to explain issues. Yeah, Museveni asked twice, but
I don’t think he wants a real answer… But his questions reflect a lot of the
ignorance in Uganda. He is not wrong to ask our in-house docs. Even while he
doesn’t listen. </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even lay people can educate
themselves about a subject as interesting as homosexuality, and of course human
sexuality.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The words of a Seniour
psychologist and professor in Ghana pulled me down this line of reflection. I
posted on it: - <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/kuchu-mental-health-in-africa-failure.html"><i>Kuchu Mental Health in Africa; The Failure
of Africa’s Medics & Health Care Workers (1)</i></a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, there is an even more
immediate and urgent example of medics in Africa failing Kuchus as individuals and
our nations collectively <span> </span>because they
are prejudiced on homosexuality. The case of HIV/AIDS.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">When the Anti-Homosexuality Bill
2023 was signed into law by the President of Uganda, UNAIDS/PEPFAR/Global Fund <a href="https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2023/may/20230529_uganda-anti-homosexuality-act">released
a cautionary statement on the possible impact of the law</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“.., are deeply concerned about
the harmful impact of the Ugandan Anti- Homosexuality Act 2023 on the health of
its citizens and its impact on the AIDS response that has been so successful up
to now.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>--</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“Progress has been made thanks to
the implementation of large-scale prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care
programs, all provided on the principle of access to health care for all who
need it, without stigma or discrimination. This approach has saved lives. The
strong health systems built to support the AIDS response serve the entire
population of Uganda.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>--</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“Uganda’s progress on its HIV response
is now in grave jeopardy. The Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 will obstruct health
education and the outreach that can help end AIDS as a public health threat.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The resulting media storm was
quite embarrassing. Shouts of ‘imperialism’, ‘colonialism,’ ‘promotion of
homosexuality’, ‘blackmail’.<br />
Winnie Byanyima, a Ugandan our country woman, currently Director General of
UNAIDS was vilified and <a href="https://ankoletimes.co.ug/2023/05/31/winnie-byanyima-is-a-disgrace-to-westerners-say-mbarara-nrm-boss/">shamed
in the papers and the people of her old constituency in Mbarara.</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And why blame Uganda’s medics?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The issue was HIV/AIDS. Ugandan
trained medical workers have a good grasp of HIV/AIDS. When <i><u>UNAIDS, literally the World’s Most
Important Specialist Doctor on HIV/AIDS</u></i> comes <a href="https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2023/may/20230529_uganda-anti-homosexuality-act">out
with such a statement</a>, It was reasonable to expect Uganda’s HIV specialists
to explain why UNAIDS was concerned. What was wrong? Why was there a problem?
Why would PEPFAR, UNAIDS and Global Fund gang up on poor, homophobic Uganda?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And where were Uganda’s
specialists to explain the problem?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">They did. <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/medics-say-no-to-un-us-claims-on-gay-aids-4251486">Medics
say no to UN, US claims on gay Aids</a> was the title headline in the Monitor.<br />
The text revealed tremendous ignorance and our under current of homophobia. Of
course these, our Ugandan medics, were much more believable than UNAIDS, even
headed by Winnie Byanyima.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>says Dr Daniel Kyabayinze, the
head of public health affairs at the Ministry of Health</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>““Americans are trying to frame
it as if we are against certain groups. I don’t know why they are attaching the
Anti-homosexuality Act to the Ministry of Health.</i></b> <b><i><u>It has nothing to do with
health</u></i></b>,””</span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sorry Dr Daniel Kyabayinze for
calling you out, but that statement is really…, out there ignorant. That the
Head of Public Health Affairs at the Ministry of Health of Uganda can actually
state that legislation that criminalises Kuchus (LGBTQ+ individuals) has
nothing to do with health and HIV/AIDS programming reveals considerable
ignorance, and prejudice.<br />
Blaming the Americans for our ignorance is not okay. <i><u>HIV/AIDS has been about LGBTQ+ individuals and communities for the
last 40 years of the pandemic.</u></i> Why don’t you know it?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Dr Kyabayinze’s defence, not
many medics in Africa equate HIV/AIDS to homosexual sex. Heterosexual sex, yes.
But Dr Kyabayinze is the Head of Public Health Affairs of the Ministry of
Health. He is not ‘all doctors’.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">If the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023
doesn’t concern the Ministry of Health, why is it <a href="https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2023/may/20230517_idahobit">a
long time policy of UNAIDS to strongly advocate for decriminalisation</a> <i>(removal of laws that criminalise
homosexuals)?</i><br />
This is a long standing policy of UNAIDS, the ‘Americans’ are not to blame... </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">As Head of Public Health in the
Ministry of Health, Dr Kyabayinze <b><i><u>should have been explaining to the
Parliament of Uganda and the President,</u></i></b> this <a href="https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2023/may/20230517_idahobit">long
standing HIV prevention measure</a>, and why it is important. </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another influential medic, and
person living with HIV, also <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/medics-say-no-to-un-us-claims-on-gay-aids-4251486">couldn’t
help but reveal his ignorance. And his bias.</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Dr Stephen Watiti, a person
living with HIV/Aids (PLHIV), and chairman of the National Forum of People
Living with HIV/Aids<br />
““I know some of them who have HIV. [But] the <u>majority of those people</u>
are not even HIV positive. Many LGBTQ members also get their medicines from
abroad. <u>The majority of those who are speaking here don’t even have HIV</u>,””</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The chairman of the National Forum
of PLHIV should be aware of the actual issues. To him the problem was the
politics, not the science. As a heterosexual person living with HIV, he doesnt
understand. He has no understanding of the DOUBLE STIGMA of HIV and homosexuality.<br />
Rev. Gideon Byamugisha <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/myths-and-misconceptions-from-gideon.html">also
showed this lack of understanding</a> even though he is also a PLWHIV. It is a
reality of our kuchu lives.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And Dr Watiti, according to the statistics,
I most kuchus living with HIV are actually Ugandans living in Uganda.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was a crucial point in time.<br />
At that time, the hype making the rounds was all about the big and bad and
dirty, extremely evil Americans who were daring to caution that there was a
problem with the very beautiful and lovely Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023.<br />
In these cringe worth moments, when fellow Ugandans are puffing out their
chests and loudly shouting how tough they are in standing up to ‘the
Americans’, proof of their holy aims…,</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And, our doctors, who should be in
the know, failed us. Spectacularly.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
<p></p>gayugandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079301892908040760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342765803257372958.post-7045192966489833932023-07-19T21:00:00.001+03:002023-07-19T21:00:00.170+03:00The Anti-LGBTQ+ Monologue in Ghana at the Moment<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ghana has <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/ghana-anti-homosexuality-bill-what-does.html">an
‘anti-homosexuality’ bill in its parliament</a>. That’s been so since 2022.
Possibly because of the nudge from Uganda’s swiftly passed Anti-Homosexuality
law, the Ghanaian Parliament found some time to pass the mandated second
reading.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">This happened on 5<sup>th</sup>
July, 2023.<br />
And, it has sparked debate about homosexuality in the country and the media.
Radio, TV, online. It would be robust, except for the fact that it is no
debate, but a monologue.<br />
Dialogue implies two parties exchanging ideas. Debate implies something similar.
But, this is a monologue. The nay sayers are very thin on the ground!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Search for those opposing the bill
heated up so much that a dead person’s name (yes, a dead person) was <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1243605/mahama-refused-to-condemn-gayism-during-his-tenur.html">dragged
out to be defended by his friends</a>. Apparently, he didn’t condemn
homosexuality when he was alive! What tarnish and taint to his great and good
name! Utterly ridiculous.<a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1243605/mahama-refused-to-condemn-gayism-during-his-tenur.html">
Demonstrably true.</a><br />
Absurd, but that is the level of ‘debate’ about my sexuality as a Kuchu in
Africa. That is the level of prevalent homophobia. <span> </span>Even the dead have to be defended for <b><i><u>presumed</u></i></b>
pro-LGBTQ impressions, because <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1243605/mahama-refused-to-condemn-gayism-during-his-tenur.html">they
didn’t condemn homosexuality while they were alive</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The chorus of support is
considerable. On 5<sup>th</sup> of July 2023, the bill was <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/ghana-anti-homosexuality-bill-what-does.html">unanimously
supported on the second reading</a>. Apparently there was a lone dissenting
voice, a female MP who was heckled and bullied into support. And another MP
apparently vocally accused another MP of being gay…, live, in parliament!!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The monologue is so hot influential
Ghanaian <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1244802/lgbtq-bill-big-lawyers-are-gay-in-this-country.html">Kuchus
are running from it</a>. Of course.<br />
Personally, and from very personal experience, I think the decision to come out
in this atmosphere, in our countries is very, very personal. A life changer, with
<a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/lynching-suspected-kuchu-in-africa-how.html">real
risk to one’s personal life</a>. And their livelihood. One might die, or lose
job and income earning. And the bill will be passed. I prefer living to dead
martyrs, thanks a lot!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Possible heterosexual allies <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1244802/lgbtq-bill-big-lawyers-are-gay-in-this-country.html">like
this guy would feel let down</a>; because they know ‘big men, big women’ kuchus;
doctors, lawyers <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1244802/lgbtq-bill-big-lawyers-are-gay-in-this-country.html">etc
in the community?!</a> <br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“Big lawyers are gay in this
country; if they won’t speak out who am I to do advocacy – Martin Kpebu”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Still the decision is too big to
be trivialised, nor depersonalised. Each and every individuals personal
circumstances differ, and most are quite hostile. One should not be ‘shamed’
into coming out, that is a no, no.<br />
Fact we do need allies, as we call them. Some are put off because we don’t seem
to be able to speak up. Yet it is important to appreciate that speaking up and
coming out is <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/lynching-suspected-kuchu-in-africa-how.html">a
huge, huge risk that no</a> ally can comprehend. They shouldn’t be lightly
condemned.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even health care providers who
should be championing LGBTQ+ concerns <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/kuchu-mental-health-in-africa-failure.html">rush
to trumpet how thoroughly they support</a> the anti-homosexuality bill,
although they might have a few ethical and professional issues of concern.<br />
Gosh, that statement is so self serving I really have miniscule respect for the
<a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/kuchu-mental-health-in-africa-failure.html">Seniour
Psychologist who made it</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sam George, MP and mover of the
bill is everywhere.<br />
Viciously anti-gay, he is covering himself in literal lies and strongly
campaigning, possibly for a higher office, on the back of the Ghanaian Kuchu’s
breaking spines. He has inferred Ghanaian Kuchus (LGBTQ+) individuals do not
exist, are foreign agents, are not African, that the US is personally attacking
him etc. <br />
Apparently he is Ghana’s leading contender for Anti-Gay Saint. And he takes the
campaign seriously. What if a few Ghanaian kuchus lose their lives? Little
meaning, that.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Ghanaian ‘industrialist’ gives a
very confusing argument for <a href="https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/africa/African-Union-must-adopt-a-common-position-on-LGBTQ-activities-Industrialist-1801742">the
African Union to come up and with a common, anti-LGBTQ+ stand</a>. That would
be a huge contradiction to the African Charter which defends the rights of
individuals. Kuchus are Africans, and the African Charter protects us too.<br />
Unfortunately, anti-gay debate in Africa really doesn’t follow good logic.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Conspiracy <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1232162/the-agony-of-mp-sam-george-for-opposing-the-legali.html">theorist
Joel Savage</a> is lavish in his support of the anti-LGBTQ+ position, and of
Sam George. <br />
Problem is his very, very confusing and lavish paranoia and conspiracy theories
are off-putting. But, Fox News and other outlets in the US thrive on that kind
of output, so… what of one paranoid African!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">To my mind, the worst of the worst
are ‘Human Rights Activists’ who blatantly deny our basic humanity. They
support ‘Proper Human Rights’; excluding LGBTQ+ rights. Those are not ‘proper’
human rights, apparently. <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/ghana-anti-homosexuality-bill-what-does.html">According
to this one</a>, Dr. Justice Appiah Kubi; executive member of the Coalition for
Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values, the bill is a very good thing. It
is actually meant to be a boon, and not a curse to the Ghanaian Kuchu. It is
not supposed to harm them. It actually protects them…</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, you better check for
yourself. I listed the details of the bill, in reports.<br />
Appiah Kubi was speaking to foreign media, and trying to butter the bill up.
And of course patting himself on the back for the <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/ghana-anti-homosexuality-bill-what-does.html">magnificent
tolerance of Ghanaian society!</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>““.., not as bad as Uganda’s…</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>… the bill is tolerant enough to
ensure that no harm befalls individuals in the queer community, …</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>This level of tolerance, Dr.
Appiah-Kubi emphasised, is reflective of the Ghanaian culture….</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Additionally, he described the
bill as a good one, explaining that, “the spirit of the bill wasn’t necessarily
to really hurt people who are into homosexuality”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I hear lies, frank lies like
that, by our shameless African leaders, that is when I get back to the details.
<a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/ghana-anti-homosexuality-bill-what-does.html">According
to reports</a>, this ‘very good bill’ actually criminalises LGBTQ+ identity in
Ghana, punishes with 3 years of imprisonment, plus any advocacy that is 10
years imprisonment. And as for HIV/AIDS care…, that is also to be scaled back.
J<a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/ghana-anti-homosexuality-bill-what-does.html">ust
check here</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sigh…</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And one wonders why kuchus feel
set upon with this kind of love?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>I came<a href="https://www.advocate.com/voices/pope-francis-uganda-law"> across an
article</a>, questioning tongue in cheek whether Pope Francis would be guilty
of ‘Promotion of Homosexuality’ in Uganda.
</span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Knowing how broadly Uganda’s
Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 is written, it made sense. Would Pope Francis’
embrace of kuchus (LGBTQ+) individuals be ‘promotion of homosexuality’? </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the context of Africa and
homosexuality, the question is not theoretical. Archbishop Welby of the Church
of England <a href="https://anglican.ink/2023/06/14/archbishop-of-canterbury-lacks-the-moral-justification-to-challenge-gafcon-for-rejecting-homosexuality/">was
accused by the GAFCON Primate of</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“becoming a spokesperson and
advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights..”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Archbishop Welby’s apparent crime
was <a href="https://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/news/news-and-statements/archbishop-canterburys-statement-church-uganda">writing
this letter to the Archbishop</a> of the Church of Uganda. It reminds all that
Anglicans are supposed to be committed to ‘pastoral care’ of the homosexuals
and non-criminalisation of homosexuality.<br />
Archbishop Welby was <a href="https://anglican.ink/2023/06/14/archbishop-of-canterbury-lacks-the-moral-justification-to-challenge-gafcon-for-rejecting-homosexuality/">emphatically
told to ‘repent’</a>; apparently of <a href="https://www.mambaonline.com/2023/06/14/uganda-archbishop-of-canterbury-must-repent-for-lgbtq-support/">the
crime of LGBTQIA advocacy</a>. From my reading of the text of the
Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 (below), for being a ‘spokesperson and advocate’
for LGBTQIA+ rights, Archbishop Welby is ‘promotion of homosexuality’ in Uganda.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">As for Pope Francis, lets examine
the text before we condemn or exonerate the old gentleman.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>11. <span> </span><u>Promotion of homosexuality</u></i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>(1)<span> </span>A Person who promotes homosexuality commits an offence and is liable,
on conviction, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twenty years.</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>(2)<span> </span>A person promotes homosexuality where the person—</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>(b)<span> </span>knowingly advertises, publishes, prints, broadcasts, distributes
or causes the advertisement, publication, broadcasting or distribution<span> </span>by any means, including the use of a
computer, information system or the internet, of any material promoting or
encouraging homosexuality or the commission of an offence under this Act;</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">(The blog is Promotion of
homosexuality. Of course!)</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>(c)<span> </span>provides financial support, whether in kind or cash, to
facilitate activities that encourage homosexuality or the observance or
normalisation of conduct prohibited under this Act;</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">(Funding for Kuchu (LGBTQ+)
organisations is prohibited. Funders (finance, in kind) are targeted here.
Should also mean UNAIDS and PEPFAR and Global Fund…, they support Kuchu HIV
clinics…!)</span></i></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>(d)<span> </span>knowingly leases or subleases, uses or allows another person to
use any house, building or establishment for the purpose of undertaking
activities that encourage homosexualities or any other offence under this Act</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Criminalising our landlords is a
low blow indeed)</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">(e)<span> </span><b><i>operates an organisation which promotes or encourages homosexuality or
the observance or normalisation of conduct prohibited under this Act.</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes. That takes care of LGBTQ+
organisations in Uganda. </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>[What about our kuchu clinics for HIV/AIDS?<br />
No wonder the <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/museveni-holds-talks-with-us-envoy-over-anti-gay-law-4262456">American
ambassador was adamant to get</a> the President’s word. The Americans refused
to announce grants until the Ambassador met the President who then publically
announced the <a href="https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2023-06-07-gays-wont-be-arrested-for-seeking-medical-care-museveni/">HIV
programming was not going to be targeted</a>. It was only then <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/us-embassy-announces-grants-for-hiv-aids-fight-4264314">that
they released funds.</a><br />
I don’t think USAID is going to be accused of ‘promotion’ … They are guilty ‘promotion
of homosexuality’, according to the letter of the law. But, oh well. Good they
did step in when they did.]</i></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Continuing on Pope Francis’ guilt
or not- from the text of the law above, Pope Francis is guilty…<br />
Not the Catholic Church in Uganda. They are not guilty of ‘normalisation of
conduct’. But Pope Francis is very guilty of ‘normalisation of homosexuality’.
I can even <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/pope-francis-statements-on-homosexuality.html">cite
page and verse</a>. I would a<a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/calling-out-ugandan-catholic-churchs.html">dd
the Catholic Catechism</a>, but it is very apparent from the Catholic Fathers’
silence that the document gives a lot of leeway for action. They are not guilty
of ‘promoting homosexuality.<br />
Pope Francis is Guilty of ‘Promotion of Homosexuality’ in Uganda. Just like the
Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">A broad, comprehensive attack on
the Kuchu, (LGBTQ+) in Uganda. <br />
The individual Kuchu,<span> </span>our organisations,
our allies are under attack, directly and indirectly. Even our landlords are
targeted. How the poor landlords should be liable for our activities is beyond
imagination…, but that would be in a sane and rational world. Not Uganda</span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>And the sentences?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>11. <span> </span><u>Promotion of homosexuality</u></i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>(3)<span> </span>Where an offence prescribed under this section is committed by a
legal entity, the court may—</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>(a)<span> </span>impose a fine not exceeding fifty thousand currency points for
breach of any of the provisions of this section;</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>(b)<span> </span>suspend the licence of the entity for a period of ten years; or</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>(c) <span> </span>cancel the licence granted to the entity.</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The sentences are prison
(custodial, up to 20 years, (11; (1) above); fines, and suspension of operating
licences and de-registration of offending organisations.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
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</span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two or more adults meet, like each
other, and decide to have sex. Seems like a very normal thing.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not if they are Kuchus in Uganda.
The <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/ugandas-anti-homosexuality-act-2023.html">Anti-Homosexuality
Act of 2023</a> stands in the way.<br />
Reading through the text of the Bill 2023 and <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/ugandas-anti-homosexuality-act-2023.html">the
Act 2023</a> can impress one on the depths of ignorance that Ugandan
heterosexuals have about gay sex. A good dose of high school education on sex
and sexuality should cure ignorance.<br />
Unfortunately, the real problem is prejudice.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">One is never adult enough to
consent to ‘Homosexual’ sex, according to the text of Anti-Homosexuality Bill
and Act 2023.<br />
The underlying sense is that in homosexual sex, BECAUSE it is homosexual sex,
there is an aggressor (the offender) and there is a victim. ALWAYS. That is why
the preamble admits, all same sex sex is supposed to be outlawed in God’s Holy
Land, Uganda.<br />
The sense of ‘victimhood’ and victimising is also very strong.<br />
We are normal human beings, with normal emotions, engaging in an act of
intimacy that we willingly consent too<i>
(with or without the consent of the State. And why should the State be
involved, for goodness’ sake?)</i></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Consent (to sex) is not a defence.<br />
What does that statement mean?<br />
And why does the State even have to come into our mutual deal to have some fun
together? The <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/ugandas-anti-homosexuality-act-2023.html">Anti-Homosexuality
Act 2023 of Uganda baldly states</a>;</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>~~~</b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>6.<span> </span>Consent to sexual act is no defence</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>The consent of a person to commit
a sexual act shall not constitute a defence to a charge under this Act.</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>~~~</b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Anti-Homosexual Act, 2023 also
strips certain adults of the right to have sex. <i><u>They cannot consent to having sex with me</u></i>, as adult human
beings. </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Under the ‘Aggravated
Homosexuality’ part of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023; which already <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/homo-in-uganda-natural-life-in-prison.html">entitles
me the Death Penalty</a> as a Serial Offender the following embellishments<span> </span>would earn me the Death Penalty. </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span> </span>(e)<span> </span>the
offender is a person in authority over the person against whom the offence is
committed;</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“person in authority” means a
person who is charged with the duty or responsibility for the health, welfare
or supervision of a person</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Does it mean that being ‘in authority’
robs them of ability to consent to sex is permanently? </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>(f)<span> </span>the person against whom the offence is committed is a person with
a disability or suffers a disability as a result of the sexual act</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Helpfully, in the preliminaries,
“disability” is helpfully defined.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“disability” means a substantial
limitation of daily life activities caused by physical, mental or sensory
impairment and environment barriers resulting in limited participation;</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">A very broad, all encompassing
definition. If I am caught having sex with a ‘disabled’ person, I get the Death
Penalty. I am the offender, they are the ‘victim’. </span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;">Questions:</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span>Does a ‘person with disability’ (in Uganda,)
have no ability to have sex?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span>Or the ‘person with disability’ has no ability
to consent to sex?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span>Or the ‘person with disability’ cannot be LGBTQ+
or homosexual? That seems to be the underlying assumption. They are disabled,
they have no sexuality.<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>~~~</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>(g)<span> </span>the person against whom the offence is committed is a person with
mental illness, …</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>~~~<br />
<br />
</b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mentally challenged adults cannot
consent to have sex? Or the state permanently reserves the right of the
mentally challenged adult to sex? Or is it that the mentally challenged adult
should first petition the State for the right to have sex consensually? ‘Mental
illness’ is a very broad category.<br />
The law is a wonderful ass.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>~~~</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>(h)<span> </span>the person against whom the offence is committed is of advanced
age;</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘advanced age’ as defined in the
Act; </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Adults older than 75 years of age</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Apparently, our MPs believe
advanced age robs one of the ability to have or consent to sex, or even be gay!
</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The psychology of victimhood
demands a victim, (above are all examples of ‘victims’) of my heinous person,
me the homosexual who did the victimisation. The Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 even
defines the victim of homosexuality…</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“victim of the offence” means—</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>(b) a person suffering from
mental illness or any other form of disability against whom the offence of
aggravated homosexuality has been committed</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">(a) is the child victim, (b) is
the victim of rape…, at least as commonly defined. </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ugandans have a unique take of the
English language, especially with regard to what they call ‘homosexuality’.<br />
It is all a bit of madness. Ignorance, a heavy dose of disinformation,
misinformation and sheer big headed prejudice is the colour of that
legislation.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ugandan kuchus are in a hopeless legal
hell.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug.</span></p>
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</span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a post that I should have
written long ago. But I am reluctant to do it. Because I am an African, a
Ugandan, and I am a kuchu living in Uganda.<br />
It is true. I as a kuchu in Uganda, and in Africa, I can be killed, by a mob of
enraged Ugandans and Africans, if and because I am suspected to be kuchu.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">There. I have written the cursed
words.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why the reluctance?<br />
I am a human being. I am conflicted, knowing the potential for fatal violence
of my lived reality, even as I block it out. Of course I block it. I am a human
being, and that is how we treat unpleasant realities. Denial.<br />
It works. But it also means that I am reluctant to pen an article that will
strip away my blinders, make me look at the nakedness of danger I flaunt every
single day.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yeah, I am at risk of being killed
by a mob of people who come to know and suspect that I am kuchu. An LGBTQ
individual.<br />
Plain fact.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, why write the post now?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Started with a twitter post.
Someone was killed in Kakuma refugee settlement in Kenya.<br />
Kakuma is known amongst kuchus in Uganda. If you dare take the risk of getting
out of Uganda, seeking asylum on the strength of persecution for our sexuality,
<span> </span>that is where you will end up. But, it
is also a violent place. <a href="https://www.africanews.com/2023/05/19/kenya-lgbtq-refugees-face-serious-human-rights-violations-says-amnesty/">One
report quotes</a>:</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“the "extreme discrimination and violence" faced by
"several hundred" LGBTQ+ people living in the camp, which hosts
200,000 refugees and asylum seekers in north western Kenya.<br />
They find themselves victims of "hate crimes, acts of violence, including
rape, and other serious human rights abuses",”</b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">One might argue that those are
special circumstances. Displaced people in a camp. I am a kuchu living in my
community, in my village and hood, so to say. Am I at risk?<br />
Unfortunately the answer is yes.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Violence targeted at people’s
perceived sexuality is a world wide phenomenon. Widespread and quite severe, in
South Africa, and Brazil. In much of Africa, it is the vigilante attack by a
mob of mobilized citizenry that is the danger hanging over our coming out.<br />
Here is a reminder and note from the recent debate of an anti-homosexuality
bill in the Parliament of Ghana (July 2023). The person q<a href="https://peacefmonline.com/pages/local/news/202307/490143.php">uoted was
on a television broadcast.</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“"I don't accept that when
someone is caught in the act, <u>they should be beaten to death</u>. No! We are
against their acts but it doesn't mean they are not humans," he said”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Dr. Benjamin Otchere Ankrah has
sounded caution to Ghanaians not to inflict bodily harm on any person suspected
of or caught in the act of homosexuality. According to him, though he strongly
supports the anti-gay bill before Parliament, he however cautions the <u>citizenry
not to take matters into their own hands</u>.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">That is a very real possibility for
an Kuchu in Africa to consider. And be aware. And move circumspectly.<br />
(<i>Never mind the condescension in that
opinion. Benjamin Otchere Ankrah above doesn’t want us kuchus ‘bodily harmed’,
but strongly supports the bill. Parse the difference…, he is a very upright and
moral human being, whose love for sinners like us is..!)</i></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The updated US travel advisory
alluded to the risk of vigilante violance.<br />
Thing is, however incensed Ugandans might feel that the US gave the advisory in
revenge for them passing the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023, the concerns of the <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/that-updated-us-travel-warning-to-uganda.html">US
state department are specific and pretty spot on</a>. The updated <a href="https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/uganda-travel-advisory.html">travel
advisory states</a>:</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“LGBTQI+ persons, and those
perceived to be LGBTQI+, … could face harassment or attacks by vigilantes.””</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Remember the lesbian couple in Jinja,
arrested in March 2023 and in prison over the Easter period? A <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/parents-storm-school-over-suspected-lesbian-teacher-4145828">mob
of parents in fear of the contagion</a> of homosexuality went to the school
where one of them was teaching. They would have lynched her, if she wasn’t in
custody at that particular point.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">True, the judge in her case then
denied her bail for some time, reasoning to <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/suspected-lesbians-to-spend-week-in-prison-4151902">protect
her from her community</a>… I think that was bullshit. The judge just wanted
the ‘suspected homosexuals’ in jail…, even without being convicted. And indeed,
they both got bail. <br />
We are kuchus. We know how to negotiate our safety. We have several years’ practical
experience doing exactly that. Not perfectly, but believe me, we would rather
risk death by mob outside prison than the mercies of the state’s guests, thank
you very much.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">A more typical example was this
report in another part of the country; Kamuli, Uganda. The report of <a href="https://observer.ug/news/headlines/77111-two-escape-lynching-in-namisindwa-over-engaging-in-homosexuality">the
article was 13<sup>th</sup> March 2023</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“Rogers Wabuya and Derrick Wamwangu,
both residents of Bukiabi sub-county were rounded up by residents from a lodge
in Bumbo town council on Saturday.</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Fred Timbwa, an eyewitness, says
that residents stormed the guest house following a tip-off from one of the
workers. Mathew Nabiswa, a paternal uncle to Wamwangu, says that the residents
stormed the guest house armed with machetes, axes, stones, bricks, and sticks
to lynch the duo but were saved by the Bumbo town council LC III chairperson,
Joseph Kamuli.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Take good note of those few very
relevant details. A couple went to a hotel, presumably seeking some privacy to
have sex. Consensual sex. A worker at the hotel noted them. The worker then
went out of their way to tip off others. A mob mobilised. They stormed the
‘guest house’, armed with ‘machetes, axes, stones, bricks and sticks’<br />
From the eye witness account, it was luck that there was a noted leader who
prevented a mob killing at that particular moment in time. Most likely they
were beaten.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sadly, that is the reality of what
can happen to any of us kuchus in Africa. It was the same scenario that that <a href="https://peacefmonline.com/pages/local/news/202307/490143.php">commentator
in Ghana was thinking about in the quote above</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two countries, miles and miles
apart; one in East Africa, the other in West Africa. And the same kind of
‘spontaneous violence’ to lynch the suspected homosexual is a risk that is
understood as part of what is possible.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why is this so? Why would this be
so?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
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</span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And, it is not poor old gug.
Someone else, some other people noted the deafening silence from the Uganda
Catholic Church Fathers <a href="https://www.aciafrica.org/news/7989/catholic-bishops-in-uganda-awaiting-entire-bill-on-homosexuality-to-give-church-position">who
are still ‘waiting for the entire bill’</a> to be presented to them.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here are <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/catholics-mark-ten-years-of-pope-francis-condemn-gays-4178372">Archbishop
Ssemogerere’s own parsed words…</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“the Catholic Church in Uganda
will come up with one position after analysing and discussing the
Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023, which Parliament passed on March 21.<br />
“Regarding what has come out of Parliament once we have the entire Bill, as
Fathers of the Catholic Church we will come together to discuss that Bill and
give the position of the Catholic Church in Uganda.””</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let me check that time line. February
to March 21<sup>st</sup> 2023 was the whole brouhaha in the country. T<a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/uganda-catholic-churchs-silence.html">he
Catholic Bishops were silent…</a><br />
The Bill was sent to the President. The President sent it back with comments
two months later. The bill was revised and sent back to the President. The
President signed it.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ahem, the bill became an Act,
without the powerful Catholic Church’s input? 5 good months of this year, 2023
of our lord in silence?<br />
Hypocrisy…, dear Holy Fathers. But that would be lying hypocrisy, isn’t it?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/uganda-catholic-church-playing-mute.html">noted
it.</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, some <a href="https://www.newwaysministry.org/2023/07/11/catholics-decry-ugandan-bishops-silence-on-anti-lgbtq-law-while-u-s-bishop-defends-it/">more
influential and much more knowledgeable people</a> have also noted the glaring,
deafening silence, over the last 5 months. The Catholic Church in Uganda has
been Deaf. Dumb. and Blind.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">How powerful is the Catholic
Church in Uganda?<br />
Oh, it actually is very, very powerful. And, it is Catholic faithful that have
been at the helm of passing the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023. Speaker Anita
Among, and MP Charles Ochen, a former Catholic priest was one of the movers on
the bill at first reading…<br />
But, how really powerful is the powerful Catholic Church in Uganda? <a href="https://www.newwaysministry.org/2023/07/11/catholics-decry-ugandan-bishops-silence-on-anti-lgbtq-law-while-u-s-bishop-defends-it/">Someone
pointedly points that out</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“the Catholic Church’s
influential role in Uganda, with nearly 40% of Ugandans identifying as
Catholic. Catholic bishops, considered moral leaders by millions, hold a unique
position of influence and could potentially shift the narrative around this
inhumane legislation. . .”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And, another nexus of power, were
the Catholic Bishops to come out against the Anti-Homosexuality Act, <b><i><u>they
would have the reigning Pontiff at their back.</u></i></b> Pope Francis is
solidly against the criminalisation of sexuality. <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/pope-francis-statements-on-homosexuality.html">He
has said so, repeatedly</a>. Last time as recently as February 2023 on a trip
to DRC and South Sudan.<br />
And, for reasons that I fail to understand, Pope Francis has sway with the
populace in Uganda, the lay Catholics. At least that is my poor observation.
But, I am not a believer, and I am not a Catholic, so I might be really
mistaken.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And, Why the F*** would the
Catholic Church come out against the <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/ugandas-anti-homosexuality-act-2023.html">Anti-Homosexuality
Act 2023</a>?<br />
Because it is against their teaching in quite a number of things. The Death
Penalty. Criminalising behaviour that they see as just sin. Teaching to nurture
and not to punish…., apparently it is <a href="https://www.newwaysministry.org/2023/07/11/catholics-decry-ugandan-bishops-silence-on-anti-lgbtq-law-while-u-s-bishop-defends-it/">spelt
out in the Catechism or something like that</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“The Catechism of the Catholic
Church denounces both the death penalty (n. 2306) and “unjust discrimination”
against people with lesbian and gay people (n.2358).”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">That is the kind of page and verse
that I wouldn’t be able to quote.<br />
Now, with an institution as centralised as the Catholic Church, having the Pope
and the Church’s teaching in my corner would mean that I am on solid ground..,</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, in reading around, I have
come to understand the apparent constraints on the power of the Pope. He has
some powerful enemies. Particularly in the US. Conservatives, they are
apparently called. So, the pressure on the Catholic Bishops in Uganda is not
clear cut, nor is it going to bring a powerful sermon from Rubaga Cathedral,
wonder of wonders, condemning the <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/ugandas-anti-homosexuality-act-2023.html">Anti-Homosexuality
Act, 2023</a>. <br />
But, it is intriguing, that Catholic Dogma and the Pontiff are on this side of
the question.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is even interesting that an
American Catholic Bishop <i>(anti-Biden..,
and Conservative apparently, Americans are really weird…) </i>took a swipe at
President Biden, but wouldn’t go as far as <a href="https://www.newwaysministry.org/2023/07/11/catholics-decry-ugandan-bishops-silence-on-anti-lgbtq-law-while-u-s-bishop-defends-it/">going
against Catholic doctrine.</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“the Church’s teaching against
the death penalty is clear. The Church also clearly teaches that, while
homosexual acts are gravely sinful, homosexual people must be ‘accepted with
respect, compassion, and sensitivity’ and that ‘Every sign of unjust
discrimination in their regard should be avoided.'””</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, even Uganda’s Catholic Bishops
conservative pals in America have a line beyond which Uganda’s <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/ugandas-anti-homosexuality-act-2023.html">Anti-Homosexuality
Act 2023</a> has strayed?!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Very interesting. <br />
But, ultimately, the Catholic Bishops of Uganda unreservedly <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/ugandas-anti-homosexuality-act-2023.html">support
the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023</a>. They are not going to come out and
challenge it. Not at all. The silence serves their purpose. They are as
homophobic as most Ugandans and to hell with the Catechism’s specific teaching.
<i>(Hey, why shouldn’t I also indulge my
honest anger a little bit? Just a tiny little bit, like calling out their
hypocrisy!)</i>That is the language they understand and I am unamused enough to
tell truth unadorned.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Without parsing language at all,
this quote below is the essence of what the Catholic Bishops of Uganda believe
about homosexuality. This was not a slip of the tongue, a problem with
language. This was a reflection of what most if not all Ugandans believe is the
Uganda Catholic Church’s position on homosexuality.<span> </span>This is<a href="https://www.newwaysministry.org/2023/07/11/catholics-decry-ugandan-bishops-silence-on-anti-lgbtq-law-while-u-s-bishop-defends-it/">
the truth, unadorned.</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“Bishop Sanctus Lino Wanok of
Lira, Uganda, called homosexuality “not human” in an Ash Wednesday homily”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">How would that square with the
Catholic Church Catechism…, this unbeliever wonders.<br />
Yeah, we do have great examples of <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/un-christ-like-christians.html">‘Un-Christ-like
Christians’.</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
<p></p>gayugandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079301892908040760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342765803257372958.post-72148708226117894252023-07-15T09:00:00.001+03:002023-07-15T09:00:00.150+03:00The Hypocrisy of Uganda’s Catholic Church’s Silence and Non-Action<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Been thinking about this for some
time. A columnist in the Monitor newspaper commented that <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/letters/why-homosexuality-remains-a-thorn-in-the-flesh-of-the-church-4265522">the
Catholic Church in Uganda was manifesting wisdom</a> in not contributing to the
‘debate on homosexuality’ in the country. The ‘debate’ is rather one sided, and
is more of a diatribe on the evil of homosexuality…, my sexual orientation. Is
the Catholic Church in Uganda’s silence one of wisdom? Maybe. And maybe not.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have compared their silence to <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/uganda-catholic-church-playing-mute.html">playing
deaf, dumb and blind</a>. I have also <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/04/29/vatican-pope-pius-records-holocaust/">compared
them to Pope Pius the XII</a> (so called the Nazi Pope, or Hitler’s Pope). And
no, am <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-catholic-church-in-uganda-missing.html">not
shy about calling them out</a>. Hypocrites; the silence serves their purpose
well.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reminds me of one of the
Nazarene’s teaching parables.<br />
A traveller was ambushed on the road by robbers. They beat and left him for
dead. Other travellers passed the robbers’ victim on the side of the road. They
noticed him, but left him…, for some very logical reasons. Maybe the Levite
didn’t want to be ‘polluted’, and maybe one of the others was hurrying to a
wedding…, whatever. Till the ‘Good Samaritan’ stopped and helped the victim of
robbery…, silence prevailed.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cogent reasons not to speak out
and act. Very logical and good, maybe.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The country is on fire, ready to
lynch the homosexuals. Would the very powerful Catholic Church please stand up
and say something? Well, the Moslems have had their say. The Anglicans have had
their say. The Pentecostals have also had their say. What of the Catholics? Are
they leaving everything to the politicians? It is supposedly a ‘moral’ debate.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why is the Catholic Church in
Uganda silent?<br />
Have they released a statement? <a href="https://www.aciafrica.org/news/7989/catholic-bishops-in-uganda-awaiting-entire-bill-on-homosexuality-to-give-church-position">They
were waiting for the ‘entire bill’</a>. Still on its way to Rubaga?<br />
I must have been asleep. I didn’t hear…! Or they are yet to say anything?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe the reasons are political.
The Pontiff, <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/pope-francis-statements-on-homosexuality.html">Pope
Francis, has not been silent</a>. Homosexuality is a sin. He is definite. And,
criminalising it is not okay. Unequivocal, and vocal, repeatedly. How can the
Catholic Church in Uganda go against the Pontiff when he has made his mind
known? Bad politics, at the very least.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">What if the Pontiff is wrong?
These are sinners, the homosexuals. Isn’t the mighty Catholic Church of a mind
to reserve them for hell on earth, <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/death-to-homosexual-in-uganda.html">life
in prison</a>,<a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/life-in-prison-no-parole.html">
and Death</a>? Or are they against the death penalty? <i>[<a href="https://churchofuganda.org/blog/2023/05/29/church-of-uganda-grateful-for-anti-homosexuality-act-2023/">In
principle, as the head of the Church of Uganda hurries to admit</a>. In
principle, reality is different.]</i></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Could it be that the mighty
Catholic Church in Uganda dare not admit that these are sinners, just like the
ones Christ used to associate with?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or, is it that the popularity of
rabid condemnation of the minority homosexuals in Uganda is not good to go
against, for the moral power and popularity of the Church, Christ’s Church? One
needs to remind ones’ self that it does matter, popularity. It takes guts to
champion homosexuals in Uganda in anyway… That is brutal matter of fact.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or could it be that the
homosexuals are such bad sinners that no hand need be lifted to help or aid
them in their plight.<br />
Leave them to die on the side of the road, I would judge. Good riddance, to bad
evil. Why waste time, energy, prestige and even thinking about them?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, I am strongly <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/08/29/907384568/newly-unveiled-archives-reveal-pope-pius-xiis-response-to-the-holocaust">reminded
of the stance of Pope Pious XII</a>.<br />
He was strangely silent through the Holocaust of the Third Reich. So much that
he was branded ‘Hitler’s Pope’, and a silent Nazi sympathiser to the genocide
of Jews. And, yes, those with the pink triangles were homosexuals. Gassed in
gas chambers by Hitler too, they haven’t improved in the popularity context
since, apparently!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh, I am certain that the mighty
and powerful Catholic Church in Uganda is silent because they totally agree and
support Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023.<br />
That is why I am poking at them…, it is good fun!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
<p></p>gayugandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079301892908040760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342765803257372958.post-90385404577281724622023-07-14T21:00:00.001+03:002023-07-14T21:00:00.148+03:00Conflicting orthodoxies; The Kuchu’s Right to Faith and Belief (2)<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the most challenging and
spine chilling thing for the kuchu of faith in Africa is the apparent
‘orthodoxy’ of beliefs…, that the religious in Uganda Ghana and Africa, the
main religions apparently down right frown about our sexuality. The frowning,
the condemnation, the hell and brimstone, spit, thorns and faeces throwing
condemnation…, it is held up as unchallenged orthodoxy in much of the African
setting.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet this is not true…, this is not
true at all.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">This observation can be surprising
for any kuchu on the ground. We live in our bubbles of poverty and
circumstances enforced. What we know is what is in the country, the capital and
economic big cities, at most. We are not exposed to the wider world, bigger
than ‘Uganda the Village’.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And what we see is near universal
condemnation.<br />
When the Mufti of Uganda wants us exiled on an island in Lake Victoria so that
we can ‘die out there’, that is what we hear. When the Archbishop and Primate
of the Church of Uganda <a href="https://churchofuganda.org/blog/2023/05/29/church-of-uganda-grateful-for-anti-homosexuality-act-2023/">espouses
his anti-gay views at the pulpit day after day</a>, which is what we hear. That
is what is reported in the country, on the ubiquitous radios and televisions
airwaves. When Pastor Aloysius Bujjingo, the SALT media mogul, gay bashes in
public Pastor Kayanja, televangelist of ‘Miracle Center Cathedral’ and Kayanja
ministries, poor Pastor Kayanja (powerful man as is) can barely push back,
because the charge is homosexuality.<br />
Homosexuality is the worst of stigmatisation, in Uganda.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet this religious ‘orthodoxy’ is
a sham. In the major religions believed in most of Africa, there is serious
dissension on the subject of homosexuality. And, many in those same religions
embrace homosexuals, in various different ways, a sharp contrast to the supreme
anti-gay bashers who actually embarrass some of their friends with their
fanaticism (like the gay porn showing Pastor Martin Ssempa).</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Take the Catholic Church in
Uganda.<br />
Oh yes, they frankly <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/uganda-catholic-church-playing-mute.html">bear
no love for the African Kuchu</a>, confessing Catholic or not. And they will
not preach so, the good Catholic Fathers of Uganda.<br />
Yet, in the face of the reigning Pontiffs parsing of anti-LGBTQ+ feeling, they <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-uganda-catholic-churchs-problem.html">couldn’t
openly air their distaste</a>. Pope Francis is welcoming of LGBTQ+ people, <i>(which is a shock, shock, shock, to any
Ugandan Kuchu who happens to be Catholic in faith.)</i><a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/pope-francis-statements-on-homosexuality.html">
Pope Francis believes, and teaches</a> that singling out the ‘sin’ of
homosexuality from other sins is hypocritical. And further, he encourages
outreach to Kuchu Catholics; the love of Christ is apparently for Kuchus too.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I repeat, this view would be shocking
news to most Catholics in Uganda, to kuchu Catholics most.<br />
The Catholic Fathers of Uganda disagree with Pope Francis. And, faced with
actually having to preach an inclusive love by Christ, or going against their
popular homophobic prejudice, they chose the coward’s way out. Silence. <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/uganda-catholic-churchs-silence.html">A
resounding silence.</a><br />
They chose not to comment on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023 in Uganda. They
then opted to inform the world that they were waiting for the text of the
Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 before they commented…, and, I am personally to
hear any comment from the revered fathers of the Catholic Church in Uganda.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, it is important to remember
that their silence has been very effective as a vehicle for anti-kuchu,
anti-gay sentiment. They are the biggest denomination in the country, Uganda.
Knowledge that their revered leader, the Pontiff was openly
anti-criminalisation of homosexuality would have been a shock and set back to
the anti-gay forces in Uganda. <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-catholic-church-in-uganda-missing.html">They
were silent…, it was not reported</a>. And Pope Francis chose not to comment
openly on a subject that his Bishops in the country supported covertly.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Ghana, legislator Amidu Chinnia
Issahaku relies on this false orthodoxy <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1242973/ghanaian-culture-and-the-lgbtq-menace-my-stance.html">in
this article</a>, claiming religious and spiritual support for his anti-gay
views, <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1242973/ghanaian-culture-and-the-lgbtq-menace-my-stance.html">in
this oped</a>. Of course he doesn’t mention that the reigning Pope of Catholics
disagrees with him. Nor that the Archbishop of Canterbury also disagrees with
the Bishop of Accra…,</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The shism of the Anglican
Communion.<br />
Instructive.., that a crucial part of Anglicanism disagrees with fanatical
anti-gay attitudes.<br />
Again the dispute has been of long standing. But, the Kuchu in Uganda, and in
much of Africa, who happens to be Anglican is more than likely not in the know.
When Archbishop Welby wrote his letter to the Archbishop Kaziimba of the Church
of Uganda, that was the first that many got to know that there were actually
Anglicans who had a parsing on the whole homosexuality debate. A parsed
outlook, fractured…, but not the orthodoxy which apparently includes <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/un-christ-like-christians-death-penalty.html">supporting
the death penalty for the homosexual, in practice, if not in principle</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course this is not suprising.
‘Orthodoxy’ in a religion and unity of thought is an impossible aim. We are
human beings. We joy and rejoice in our differences.., and thought orthodoxy is
sheer lunacy (personal POV).<br />
That is a matter of fact…, yet for the African LGBTQ+ individual, the kuchu, is
led to believe that they are so evil and such sinners that they cannot believe,
are not welcome spiritually before their God. That its either their
spirituality or their faiths. An impossible choice.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is not often that Kuchus are
even exposed to the fact that the major religions actively disagree with that
point of view.<br />
That, in a way, is profound insight that was partly gifted to me when I was
searching for answers for myself.<br />
I became disgusted with the lies and obfuscation and lack of common decency
with our leaders of mosque and church. Way long ago in the evolution of my
spirituality. It is still quite relevant today, to the Kuchu on the streets of
Kampala, Nairobi or Accra, and anywhere in Africa.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are, people of faith. And
though some reject us, there are others who affirm us. Our humanity, our
sexualities, our loves.<br />
And, it is our humanity’s right to have a faith and knowledge of faith, that
might or might not contrast with the ‘orthodoxy’ of anti-kuchu sentiment forced
upon us.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are Kuchu. We are human beings.
We can be people of faith. It is an intensely personal decision.., and it is
ours to make, personally.<br /></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
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</p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">We Africans are a spiritual
people.<br />
The reasons for that might be myriad, and frankly un-understandable to me as an
individual, but, it is an enduring fact of social existence on the continent.
Growing up and living here, one cant help but be impressed at the depth and
breadth of spirituality and beliefs.<br />
Kuchus, (LGBTQ+) Africans, are also deeply spiritual people, like other
Africans.<br />
That is also matter of fact. These are our people, we cannot reject our people,
even when the leaders disdain and attack us. We are, for all our putative
crimes, we are African. With the blessings and curses that come with that
identity.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most, Africans, in Africa,
strongly and vigorously prescribe to an inalienable right to faith, belief and
religions, as a strongly held convictions.<br />
An apparent paradox to that is that many of my fellow Africans would seek to
deny the Kuchu, the (LGBTQ+ African) the right to belief, on account of their
sexuality. Indeed, many fellow Africans fervently seek to convert the Kuchu to
their own interpretation of faiths and scriptures.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am African. I reverently and
fully embrace my identity as African. And yes, poke my finger in the
metaphorical eye of any who would seek to deny my identity as African.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">My inalienable right to faith and
belief I also embrace.<br />
Oh yes, I do. I do not believe. And, I strongly believe that as strong as your
right to believe what you believe is, that is as strong as my right not to
believe in what I don’t believe in.<br />
Oh and yeah, it started off being cheeky…, ended up…, well, an earned
scepticism.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Quite a number of fellow Africans
have interpreted my lack of a confirmed faith as a result of my sexual
orientation. That is not accurate. The vast majority of kuchus that I know are
people of faith. They believe, and are members of the major faiths and
religions.<br />
And, <b><i><u>Kuchu
believers have a right to faith, as inalienable as that of any other African’s</u></i></b><i>.</i></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Logical, isn’t it?<br />
Yet I have sat across a table from and listened in wonder as prominent
‘believers’ sought to impress on me how faithless it was to be kuchu. <b><i>That
because I am kuchu, that definition totally defines my spirituality as godless,
demon possessed, anti-god, anti-morality, anti-humanity.</i></b> Anti-gay
rhetoric in Uganda, and quite a bit of Africa denies our humanity, and much of
the semblance of what, in our African eyes, marks a human being. Check out
this, <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1242620/parliament-accepts-motion-on-anti-gay-bill-next.html">a
report on the debate on an</a> anti-homosexuality bill in the parliament of
Ghana on 5<sup>th</sup> of July.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“Minister ..,Dan Botwe, who
described as “madness” the activities of lesbians, gays, bi-sexuals, and
transgender (LGBT) humans.. a Satanic force that should not be allowed to
fester.., For him, “eternal vigilance” should be exercised by the country”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is the rhetoric of
dehumanisation, embraced by the prominent influencers, and firmly believed by
leaders, political, religious and spiritual in a lot of Africa.<br />
We inhale all that toxicity, and we kuchus also tend to believe it, till we
stand up and assert that, hell on earth, <a href="https://www.rainbow-project.org/internalised-homophobia/">we are still
demonstrably human</a>, and our spirituality, an inherent part of our humanity,
<a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/toxic-environment-kuchu-in-uganda-africa.html">cannot
be taken away from us</a>. Simply because we are as human as those who are
throwing the stones, the anti-gay.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">After the debate on the
anti-homosexuality bill in the Ghanaian parliament this month, it was time for
Ghanaian politicians to go all out and preach and articulate their hate of the
Ghanaian Kuchu.<br />
Hey, I am a Ugandan. The cycles of hate are becoming quite predictable, in
Uganda and outside.<br />
Hon. Amidu Chinnia Issahaku (MP for Sissala East) of Ghana is apparently
cashing in. He was hitting the airwaves, and took the time to pen titled <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1242973/ghanaian-culture-and-the-lgbtq-menace-my-stance.html">Ghanaian
Culture and the Gay Menace</a>. Ironically regurgitating the talking points of
the American Far Right in American Cultural Wars. The originality was…,
distinct, is the word.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, Hon Issahaku first had to
impress on his Ghanaian audience how much against scriptures the kuchu is.<br />
He quotes Christian scripture, and Islamic scripture. He hints that African
religion, pre-colonial, was anti-homosexual <i><a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/kuchus-are-african.html">(that
assertion is suspect to say the least)</a></i><br />
Preaching to the converts, as most anti-gay activists in Africa do, and love to
do. The aim is to shower up their credentials as upright and moral human
beings, prominent members of society.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">A distinct fact they ignore, as
Amidu Chinnia Issahaku did ignore, is that Kuchu (LGBTQ+) Ghanaians exist.<br />
And, they believe. They are human beings, and have a spirituality that is undeniable
as human beings. And, of course they have come to a reconciliation of their
faiths and beliefs, and their sexualities.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amidu Chinnia Issahaku believes
that because he interpretes religion as unwelcoming to Kuchu Ghanaians, that
there are none that welcome them. Thankfully, we do have alternative
communities that welcome us. And, the Rt Honourable member would be quite
flabbergasted that the <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/pope-francis-statements-on-homosexuality.html">reigning
Pontiff of the Catholic Church actually welcomes</a> us. And there are <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/homosexuality-differing-point-of-view.html">quite
a number of alternates</a> to his apocalyptic vision of our evilness.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, there are some like
me…, ahem, ahem, ahem.<br />
I sincerely don’t believe, even though I believe in your right as a human being
to believe.<br />
But, I have come across ‘believers’ who insist on quoting their scriptures in
my surprised face…, and I ask myself, what part of ‘I don’t believe’, don’t
they understand? I get them.., I am an African, a human being. Surely I must
believe…,<br />
Those discussions have evolved my thinking, but I sincerely don’t appreciate
being informed of how bad I am supposed to be according to your scriptures,
however holy you believe them to be. I just don’t believe.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">In all his fervency, Amidu Chinnia
Issahaku and other anti-gay people in Uganda, like Martin Ssempa and Stephen
Kaziimba, fail to grasp something important. Which is quite frustrating, to
them, I imagine. They can use their powers to silence us, but, because we are,
and we are human just like them, we will always claim and embrace our basic
humanity.<br />
Their counter is dehumanising and objectifying us; classic pathways of
prejudice, still balking at the basic fact challenge. Our humanity; we are
human.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are Kuchu. Our right, as human
beings, and as Africans to faith and belief is a pragmatic matter of fact. We
are. And, we are human beings. And, we are spiritual.<br />
Faith is a personal thing…, and we will always embrace our own spirituality and
spiritualties. Dehumanising rhetoric, however holy and righteous it sounds runs
counter to our experience of humanity. Its like the struggle one has to impress
another that a rock is bread. Reality wins out.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or at least so we hope.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
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</p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The mental health of the African
Kuchu.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/toxic-environment-kuchu-in-uganda-africa.html">have
been commenting</a>, on and off, that we kuchus are damaged individuals. Of
course we are. We are human beings that develop from childhood and live in
particularly hostile environments in Africa.<br />
We would be angels, if we were not damaged and didn’t decompensate, in order to
survive, as Kuchu (LGBTQ+) in Africa. And, we are alive…!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our mental health doesn’t seem to
be that important, sincerely speaking. When it is put up against the needs for
survival in Africa, it comes up a losing second.<br />
Which is simply us being blinded. <a href="https://www.rainbow-project.org/internalised-homophobia/">Our mental
health matters tremendously.</a> We don’t seem to know it. <i><u>And, crucially, we Kuchus, we LGBTQ+ Africans are being continuously
failed by our own African ‘elite’, the medical doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists
who should know quite a bit better.</u></i></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is a poignant example of what
is happening on the continent of Africa. This was in Accra, Ghana. But, it
could have been anywhere on the continent of Africa.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is an <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/ghana-uganda-un-african-kuchu.html">anti-homosexuality
bill in the Parliament of Ghana</a>. And of course that brings up debate in the
country, on the airwaves, radio and TV. A prominent psychologist in the country
was invited to give his comments. And, to say the least<a href="https://www.peacefmonline.com/pages/local/news/202307/490223.php">, they
are devastating.</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Senior Psychologist, Professor
Joseph Osafo</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“Contributing to Peace FM's
"Kokrokoo" show, Professor Joseph Osafo stated emphatically that he
fully supports the bill,”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“As a Pastor, I support the bill
but as a clinician, let's reassess it and work on the parts that won't help us
because if we are not careful and we pass the bill to a certain level, there
may be some people who genuinely need help" but, due to the bill, may face
prosecution, he stated.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“"I have worked as a
suicidologist within the Ghanaian context and the African context. Africa now
is leading in suicidality. It is the youngest continent. Our infrastructure, health
infrastructure is down; it is not the best . . .””</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is a total lack of appreciation,
understanding and empathy on the part of the Seniour Psychologist that the
psychology of the individual, the Ghanaian kuchu, is going to be devastatingly affected
by this anti-LGBTQ+ bill.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">This psychologist has an awareness
of that we kuchus are prone to suicide. Yet he is in total support of a bill
that criminalises and imprisons us. For simply being kuchu. Begs the question,
how much conversation has happened between this psychologist and his Kuchu
patients?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Instead of the Proffesor and
Psychologist tackling a prominent, un-equivocal source of stress for his
patients, he wants to meet them when they have survived a suicide attempt? He
is throwing <a href="https://www.peacefmonline.com/pages/local/news/202307/490223.php">his
weight behind a bill that criminalises his patients</a> and his only worry is
that the bill might also stop them clients from coming to him?<br />
A skewed sense of priorities, dear Proffessor Pastor Joseph Osafo. A skewed
sense of priorities.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Crucially, an ethical problem that
seems to challenge African health proffesionals, when there is a clash between
their faith and the health of their patient and client, their faith wins all
the time, even when their clients’ faith might differ from theirs.<br />
What the hell happened to the vaunted ethics of the Hippocratic Oath? The
‘service to all’ ethic of the medical and health proffesions? It fails in
Africa. <br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.peacefmonline.com/pages/local/news/202307/490223.php">Please
note that the discussant</a> is A SENIOUR PSYCHOLOGIST AND PROFFESOR. A
teacher.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“"As a Pastor, I support the
bill but as a clinician, let's reassess it”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">See, the big problem is, Pastor
Proffesor Joseph Osafo, that as you waffle and try to qualify your support,
your patients and clients are listening to you.., future and current. And past,
even the suicidal ones. They are all listening, to your tone, your words, your
faith, and your clinical expertise all.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">That is pretty depressing. Yes, it
depresses me that our so called elite in Africa, the educated few, who are
supposed to bear the burden for most of us, when they fall so far from at least
a basic understanding of their proffesions.<br />
I am not a psychologist. But, even my poor understanding of psychology tells me
there is something wrong here.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, it is important to appreciate
that our mental health issues not unique, <a href="https://www.rainbow-project.org/internalised-homophobia/">they are known
and appreciated</a> <i>(outside Africa,
which is a challenge, but at least we can outsource the knowledge).</i><br />
Kuchus have to appreciate that we are prone to something as insidious as
suicide in our communities, we kuchus (LGBTQ+ Africans). Suicide is a major
problem, which even that benighted Proffesor seems to acknowledge. But, the
root problem, the one at the bottom most of the time<a href="https://www.rainbow-project.org/internalised-homophobia/"> is our
internalised homophobia</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And treatment? Or prevention?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/columnists/muniini-k-mulera/homosexuality-a-medical-doctor-s-perspective-4194658">Dr
Muniini-Mulera had some insights.</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“What we know is that
homosexuality is not due to troubled family relationships, or “recruitment.” We
also know that homosexuality is not “curable” through conversion or reparative
therapy. </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>First, you do not cure a
non-disease. Second, conversion therapy is based on an unscientific assumption
that people with a non-traditional sexual orientation, such as homosexuals, are
psychologically damaged and that changing their sexual orientation will benefit
not only the individual but also society”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Important points above, very
important background, the current science that is denied to us, Kuchus in
Africa. But, beyond that, what should we expect from our therapists,
psychologists, medical doctors and health care providers? <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/columnists/muniini-k-mulera/homosexuality-a-medical-doctor-s-perspective-4194658">Muniini
Mulera again.</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“Medical doctors are called to
serve in a respectful, unbiased, open-minded, and non-judgemental way. To
professionally sound medical doctors, it does not matter that the patient
presents with a lifestyle that conflicts with their personal values. They treat
homosexual people and their families with respect and empathy, employing
evidence-based tools to improve their health.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Which is very good. You don’t
campaign to have us be put in prison, and then expect us to tell you all our
secrets as human beings. Sincerely, isn’t that common sense?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The standard to aspire to is
called <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201509/when-homosexuality-stopped-being-mental-disorder">‘affirming
care, or affirmative psycho-therapy’</a>. </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And surely even the poor,
uneducated, kuchu in ‘Uganda the Village’ and ‘Ghana the Village’, should
expect at the very least, that bit of professionalism from their doctor and
health care giver?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
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</p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am a Ugandan.., one of the
lessons I have learnt with my country’s endless debates about my poor, personal
sexuality is that details and specifics are important. Boring but important.
Partly because I have to expect a lot of parsing, and frank lies, in the debate
about homosexuality.<br />
Not from me…, which is the whole problem. I expect the nasty, dirty, bad and
evil homosexual to lie. Not the Saints of Anti-Homosexuality in Holy Africa.<br />
But, I digress.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The anti-homosexuality bill in
Ghana’s Parliament is a Private Member’s Bill that was<a href="https://globeecho.com/news/europe/france/homosexuality-and-religion-come-out-of-the-closet-be-happy-your-relationship-with-god-belongs-to-you/">
introduced by Member of Parliament</a> Sam Nartey George in 2022. Ghanaians
being very proper people, <a href="https://peacefmonline.com/pages/local/news/202307/490143.php">the proper
name for the bill is</a>:</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>““Promotion of Proper Human
Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2022””</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;">The aims of this anti-LGBTQ+ legislation are not hidden…, if
they are, it is in plain sight. Same sex intercourse is already criminalised in
Ghana. So, this is ‘enhancement’ of the criminalisation sought. Here is a
proper <a href="https://peacefmonline.com/pages/local/news/202307/490143.php">summary
picked from a Ghanaian publication</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span> </span>“The bill, when passed into law, seeks to
provide a proper framework to sanitizing the Ghanaian society of the practices
and ills of the LGBTQ+ community.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">and <a href="https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/There-is-a-homosexual-in-every-community-in-Ghana-Ursula-Owusu-Ekuful-1798718">specifically</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“aims to criminalize LGBTQ+
activities, prohibit the promotion or advocacy of such activities, and ensure the
protection and support of children and individuals affected by LGBTQ+ issues.”<span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">July 5<sup>th</sup>, 2023 was the
2<sup>nd</sup> reading of the Bill. And apparently amendments were made and
accepted to the original. The amendments were <a href="https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-232917.html">approved
to the original text unanimously</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>““.., approved by all 275 lawmakers
(present) on Wednesday after months of public debate and revisions to the
36-page document, introduced in 2021.””</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The bill <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Ghana-Parliament-Passes-Amendments-to-Tough-Anti-gay-Bill-20230706-0015.html">needs
a third reading</a>, and then accent by the President of the Republic to become
the law of Ghana <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1242620/parliament-accepts-motion-on-anti-gay-bill-next.html">as
reported here.</a></span> </p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span> </span>“For it to come into force, it must still pass
at least a third reading in the House and be signed into law by Ghanaian
President” </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, what details, what does this
newer anti-homosexuality legislation in Ghana say should be done?<br />
I don’t have the text, so I had the pick of articles available, and remember,
this was the second reading, not the final bill assented to by the Parliament
of Ghana.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;">Details, details please;</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span>Identity is criminalised.., I remember that was
also in the original Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023 in Uganda. To <a href="https://www.k24tv.co.ke/news/ghana-pushes-anti-gay-bill-108719/">identify
as homosexual is criminalised…!</a><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“.., amendment to an anti-gay
bill that would make identifying as LGBT punishable by a three-year prison
sentence. “<br />
<br />
</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.k24tv.co.ke/news/ghana-pushes-anti-gay-bill-108719/">Advocacy
is criminalised</a>. Why do the evil homosexuals need any sort of advocacy?
This should be the dreaded ‘promotion of homosexuality’. Would be quite
interesting to read the text.<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“People who campaign for LGBT
rights could also face up to 10 years in jail.” </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: hyperlink;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Ghana-Parliament-Passes-Amendments-to-Tough-Anti-gay-Bill-20230706-0015.html">Conversion
therapy is in</a>…, poor gay Ghanaians.<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u><span style="color: blue; mso-themecolor: hyperlink;"></span></u></i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>““… also validates "<u>conversion
therapy</u>"”<span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;">And <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Ghana-Parliament-Passes-Amendments-to-Tough-Anti-gay-Bill-20230706-0015.html">more
to come.</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 54.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i>criminalizes
any form of LGBTIQ+ activism or support, as well as the dissemination of
information. </i></b></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 54.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">It will
punish homosexuals with a </span></i></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span style="color: windowtext;">three-year prison sentence for identifying</span></i></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">
as such, </span><br />
</i></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">while </span></i></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span style="color: windowtext;">LGBTQI+ rights advocates would face up to ten years</span></i></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">
in prison.</span></i></b></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 54.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span style="color: windowtext;">limits the provision of health services</span></i></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">
to this community, such as medication to treat HIV. </span></i></b></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 54.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The proposed
law </span></i></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span style="color: windowtext;">encourages
citizens to report neighbors</span></i></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> who engage
in homosexual relations to the authorities.</span></i></b></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">That is a
quite substantive laundry list of demands of the law… Poor Ghanaian Kuchus,
indeed.<br />
I have also seen reference to this weird, <a href="https://globeecho.com/news/europe/france/homosexuality-and-religion-come-out-of-the-closet-be-happy-your-relationship-with-god-belongs-to-you/">more
than weird provision.</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“Moreover, the bill seeks to
withdraw health services from this community, including HIV medication.” </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">That would be interesting.
Ghanaians would rather have HIV spread rampart than have LGBTQ+ Ghanaians
getting prevention, treatment and care?</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Weird indeed.<br />
But there are Ugandans, prominent and virulent anti-gay activists who would
rather have had no HIV/AIDS aid from the US, if that was to be balanced against
their anti-homosexuality bill. Of course it is more than likely those were not
amongst the 1,2 Million Ugandans living with HIV. Anti-gay advocates are really
fanatical about their demands.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
<p></p>gayugandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079301892908040760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342765803257372958.post-83756823199682026352023-07-12T21:00:00.001+03:002023-07-12T21:00:00.143+03:00Ghana, Kenya, Uganda: With love from America ( : the Far Right)<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">We, African Kuchus (LGBTQ+) have
the dubious honour of being constantly termed not only un-African because of our
sexuality, but also some kind of super agents for the nefarious west intent on
corrupting pure African morals. They (the bad, bad West), are the ones that
supposedly fund our ‘recruitment’ and ‘promotion of homosexuality’.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, I don’t have any shame embracing,
with great pleasure and passion, my Kuchu (LGBTQ+) brethren in the west. They
understand me, much better than my puttated African brothers and sisters who
are currently celebrating and rejoicing how they can legally put me in prison
for life, and also to death.<br />
I must admit not yet having seen the monies for ‘recruitment’, I must need a
harem.., (of course I do. The anti-gay people say I do.) <span> </span>and when I get that money that the anti-gay
forces tell me should be on the way, I will set up my harem of nubile men
aplenty.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, besides accusing me and my
kuchu brethren of being agents of the west, it is these very people who are
lapping, nice lapdogs, the ideologies of the American Far Right. They are
bringing the <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/americas-cultural-wars-frontline-africa.html">American
cultural wars to Uganda, and Kenya, and Ghana</a>…, and the proof is actually
blinding.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Ghana, after the second reading
of their anti-homosexuality bill, an anti-gay member of parliament, Amidu Chinnia
Issahaku (MP for Sissala East), had <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1242973/ghanaian-culture-and-the-lgbtq-menace-my-stance.html">an
oped published, on the LGBTQ+ Menace</a> threatening God’s Holy Ghana. Here is
an extract</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">After trying to convince why he
has the support of (colonial) <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1242973/ghanaian-culture-and-the-lgbtq-menace-my-stance.html">religions,
he asserts-</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“LOOMING DANGERS:</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>We have witnessed how Western
countries, particularly the USA, champion LGBTQ+ rights and move beyond
boundaries, imposing dehumanizing practices on their citizens. These countries
have started providing gender-affirming care for minors, allowing them to
change their gender without parental consent. These practices in Western
countries have diminished the positive influence parents have on their
children. Gender-affirming care for minors can be considered child abuse and
child sexual mutilation.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Looming danger indeed. I am sure
any American would identify with that language currently inflaming politics in
the US, the 2024 election cycle.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Matter of fact, in Africa, most of
my transgendered (ADULT) friends have no access to drugs. No, they don’t. <br />
In Uganda, even our HIV meds are paid for by those big bad Americans, gods
bless them mightily, and we have 1.2 million Ugandans on the life-saving
medicines. I doubt the challenges differ in Ghana…, ‘Gender affirming care for
minors’? Oh gracious goodness, what a fear to wave and scare the ignorant of!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, that ‘copy and paste’ direct
from the Far Right talking points of the American Cultural Wars was part of the
persuasive arguments from an African, a Ghanaian legislator.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amidu Chinnia Issahaku<span> </span><a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1242973/ghanaian-culture-and-the-lgbtq-menace-my-stance.html"><span> </span>continues…, apparently</a> speaking from the
heart, of clear and present dangers, that are stalking and soon snaring, good
old Ghana and the Ghanaians.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Through the LGBTQ+ agenda, the
nuclear family's role in promoting positive education is undermined. The
distinct differences between men and women are ignored, and society is forced
to recognize non-existing genders. It is no longer limited to men and women or
boys and girls; children in these Western pro-LGBTQ+ societies are made to
believe that they could be trapped in the wrong body, resulting in body
mutilation to achieve their "proper" gender.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Again ‘copy and paste’ with no
analysis, no further input, from the American Far Right.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Clearly I would want access to
this kind of education and care for my transgendered kuchu brothers and
sisters. It simply doesn’t exist. We lack the very basics of education in
sexuality. Drugs for transgendered individuals? Not in much of Africa (oh yes,
South Africa), but not in much of the rest of Africa.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>This African leader, suckling on
the breast of the American Far Right, came up with lots of ideological ‘points’,
and undigested, reproduces them to justify his support for the criminalisation
of LGBTQ+ Africans, Ghanaians.</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And, I bet you, he doesn’t see the
irony of what he is doing.<br />
I have the excuse that I am actually a Kuchu, an LGBTQ+ African.., for embracing
my Kuchu brothers and sisters outside Africa.<br />
What excuse would this good Ghanaian, African legislator have for parroting,
and believing <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/family-watch-international">American
Far Right talking points</a>, over and above the American citizens themselves?
Who said colonialism ended years ago? Neo-colonialism, indeed.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Indeed, eyes, but they don’t see.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh, the phenomenon is not uniquely
Ghanaian. FWI has been proselytising across Africa.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ugandan legislators were
hobnobbing and sharing with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/03/ugandan-president-calls-on-africa-to-save-the-world-from-homosexuality">American
Far Right Activists from the group Family Watch International</a> as the
Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 was passed.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And, the Kenyan legislator, Peter
Kaluma, empowered by the same Americans, was quick to introduce another bill in
the Parliament of Kenya, with similar language… again, to the American Far
Right’s talking points. <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/2-popular-ugandan-and-african-parsing.html">Please
follow that link</a>. It is quite educative. And sad.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">This would be very funny, if it
was not deadly serious.<br />
African legislators, taking American Far Right talking points and crafting
bills in their national parliaments that are a direct evolution, regurgitated
from the US Far Right. The very country that they accuse of ‘interfering’ with
their ‘sovereignty’, …</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sigh…,</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am an African. And yes, the
irony and shame is palpable.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, that is what it is. Cry,
beloved Continent.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
<p></p>gayugandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079301892908040760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342765803257372958.post-33918818666832200742023-07-12T09:00:00.001+03:002023-07-12T09:00:00.133+03:00Ghana, Uganda.., (Un)-African Kuchu<p><span style="font-size: large;">
Why do fellow Africans believe
that we <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/kuchus-are-african.html" target="_blank">Kuchus, LGBTQ+ Africans are not Africans</a>?
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<![endif]--></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think once upon a time, I (knew…),
or believed so. That, unfortunately is the truth. I am an African. Bred and
born and grew up in Africa. In my developing years, questioning, un-understanding,
unable to comprehend what was nose close, I somehow came to believe that I
couldn’t be gay.., because it was something that was a mzungu (white people)
problem. Of course that denial didn’t solve my problem…, I was still African-
and a human being</span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">In my defence, I was 12-14 years
of age?! With zero access to real knowledge on sexuality. (eish…, discount
curious childhood experimentation!)</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, at this moment in time, I am
ashamed that fellow Africans, adult human beings, are so clueless with regards
to sex and sexuality that they are convinced that kuchus cannot be African.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet we are. Queer Africans,
Kuchus, are part of our communities and societies in Africa. But, the basic
denial is still a thing in the thinking of the ‘elite’ of Africa, the educated
and leaders and those in power. And it shows in a myriad ways.<br />
The ‘anti-homosexuality’ bills in our parliaments are a desperate attempt to
deny homosexuality from invading our communities. A dangerous and silly farce.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Queer Africans exist in every
community, in every village, town and city of Africa. We kuchus, queer (LGBTQ+)
Africans, are African.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ursula Owusu Ekuful, minister from
Ghana points out the facts, even while defending a bill criminalising
homosexuality in Ghana. Its weird to think that the lady felt a <a href="https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/There-is-a-homosexual-in-every-community-in-Ghana-Ursula-Owusu-Ekuful-1798718">need
to assert what should be undisputed fact</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>““In every community in this
country, we know of somebody who is a homosexual and that is why our language
has a description for that purpose. If our language has a description for a
person, it means it exist unless we are disputing that,”” </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh yeah, many do dispute. As
apparently Minister Owusu-Ekuful <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1242620/parliament-accepts-motion-on-anti-gay-bill-next.html">was
debating another MP</a>. That MP must presumably have been denying the
existence of kuchus…, and Owusu-Ekuful spoke up? Pure speculation, on my part,
with a nudging semblance of knowledge of popular conversations on my sexuality
in Africa.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is very, very lazy thinking. <br />
But, our leaders regularly entertain it. President Museveni is famous for
denying the existence of kuchus, explaining why the HIV epidemic in Africa
seemed to be heterosexual.<br />
We kuchus came out…, and he changed tack, to asserting kuchus in Africa were
‘few’.. and didn’t need any particular notice (in HIV programming), and that
assertion was done on BBC.<br />
Very lazy thinking. Unworth of modern day leaders and leadership.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">On 5<sup>th</sup> Jul 2023, Parliament
in Ghana <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1242620/parliament-accepts-motion-on-anti-gay-bill-next.html">debated
an Anti-Homosexuality bill, titled th</a>e; </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“Promotion of Proper Human Sexual
Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021, popularly known as the anti-
LGBTQ+ bill.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The underlying message.., Kuchu
Ghanaians are ‘anti-family values’, and denial of their right to sex is
‘Promotion of Proper human sexual rights’. Classy, isn’t it?! That was <a href="https://www.modernghana.com/news/1242620/parliament-accepts-motion-on-anti-gay-bill-next.html">the
second reading of the bill</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The bills <a href="https://peacefmonline.com/pages/local/news/202307/490143.php">purpose…,
nicely summarised</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“primarily to ensure proper human
sexual rights and Ghanaian family values while banning the lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ+) and all their related activities”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Homosexuality is taken to be a
‘foreign import’, a very dangerous trope for us Kuchus. Because there is continual
denial of our African-ness, our existence, our needs. Justifies our families
throwing us out when we are exposed. And it is the very basis for many of the
anti-homosexuality bills. We are coming out…, so that means that we are the tip
of the seed of corruption, which has to be stamped on, now…</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is difficult for us Kuchus, to
educate fellow Africans. Yeah, it is.<br />
And, putting a dent in prejudice is tough. Very tough.<br />
The influencers; politicians, religious leaders, and others, are convinced of
our un-African-ness. The laws now, courtesy of the anti-gay American Right
sponsors, typically forbid ‘promotion of homosexuality’. That is, advocacy. Of
any kind.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Shit. But silly tough shit.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The denial and erasure, overt and
covert, justifies the homophobia and the state support. We cannot but be
criminals because the law criminalises us, and we cannot be decriminalised
because the law criminalises us. Circular reasoning, but it is in the vogue in
much of Africa.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course we are, and it is that
fact that trumps all. <i>(Touch wood, the
Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 </i><a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/homo-in-uganda-natural-life-in-prison.html"><i>mandates prison for life</i></a><i>, and </i><a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/06/death-to-homosexual-in-uganda.html"><i>death, for the homosexual.</i></a><i> So, maybe Uganda will manage the Final
Solution that Hitler failed at.)</i></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
<p></p>gayugandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079301892908040760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342765803257372958.post-62972254891801919142023-07-11T21:00:00.001+03:002023-07-11T21:00:00.138+03:00Myths and misconceptions from Gideon Byamugisha’s article<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reading <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/commentary/anti-gay-anger-is-neither-christian-nor-african-4294776">Reverend
Gideon Byamugisha’s article</a>, a few things rubbed me the wrong way.</span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">True, ours <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/toxic-environment-kuchu-in-uganda-africa.html" target="_blank">is a toxic environment</a>, and his was a <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/reverend-gideon-byamugisha-breath-of.html" target="_blank">great call out of the pharisees in the churches</a>, but I had to
remind myself that allies are allies. <br />Kuchu (LGBTQ+) allies are necessary.., we
are a minority. In our countries, in most of Africa, our allies literally speak
for us. In many cases that is because we cannot speak on our behalf, for one
reason or another.<br />
But, they don’t necessarily truly know us.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are a minority, however much
the haters mobilise more hate by painting the farce of us ‘taking over’, or
‘turning the world homosexual’ as Archbishop Kaziimba and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/03/ugandan-president-calls-on-africa-to-save-the-world-from-homosexuality">President
Museveni believe</a>. Sincerely held beliefs.<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>(Snigger, ridiculous and sad as it is,
the President and Archbishop believe we homosexuals have an agenda to literally
destroy the world.., in some way, and that is from their own mouths.)</i></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reverend Byamugisha is also a
person in the Ugandan environment. He has been influenced by the lies,
disinformation and myths that are peddled without challenge in Uganda. (Just
like <a href="https://www.rainbow-project.org/internalised-homophobia/">we,
kuchus, internalise the homophobia</a> in our environment). </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the first paragraph Byamugisha
states</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“Our grave challenges from some
selfish homosexual practice recruiters and promoters notwithstanding…”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>It is important to assert, again and again. We do not ‘promote’
homosexuality. <b><u>We don’t need to
promote what comes naturally to us</u></b>. We just are. The rest is an
invention of those who literally hate and tell lies about us.</i><br />
In the same breath, we kuchus have to assert, <b><u>we do not recruit into homosexuality</u></b>. If one really thinks
about it, it is a very ridiculous assertion, a BIG LIE that has taken root,
especially in Uganda, promoted literally by anti-gay activists like Martin
Ssempa, transplanted as is from the American Far Right. We kuchus, LGBTQ+
people, do not recruit! We don’t make people gay. We dont have an army to
‘recruit’ for. That language and the lies have only one purpose, to dehumanise
and demonise kuchus, making us feared and hated by the public. To increase the
prejudice against kuchus.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It infuriates me.., that the world
has fallen for this false narrative of LGBTQ+ ‘recruiters and promoters’.<br />
Byamugisha is stating what is general belief in Uganda. Homosexuals are
dangerous because of ‘recruiters and promoters’. Apparently we as homosexuals
have the itch to increase in some way. Thus the ‘recruiting and promoting’.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is not only in Uganda. It is
not only the ‘under-educated’ masses in Africa who believe this nonsense,
though we are an easy mark. The anti-gay activists like Family Watch
International (FWI), right wing proselytisers have been quite successful
pushing the narrative that we kuchus of the world are ‘recruiting and
promoting’ homosexuality. And of course the icing on the cake, we homosexuals
are supposed to be <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/uganda-homosexuals-recruiting-your.html">‘coming
for your children’.</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And the world believes that
nonsense.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It shows a basic lack of understanding
of sexuality. And an underlying desire to believe any and all evil of a
stigmatised group. A willingness to suspend common sense, when the target is
wrapped in ignorance, myths and there are some willing to push the big lie, in
the name of religion or culture, or sovereignty…, or for whatever the reason
is.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is a lie. It is believed. And
that is what is…</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet <i><u>I still wouldn’t want an ally to drop into the cesspool of thinking
that we kuchus have this agenda to ‘recruit’, ‘promote’ and of course ‘come for
their children’.</u></i></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes. I know. ‘Promoting’, in the
minds of anti-gay forces, especially in Uganda, means me defending myself, like
I am doing in this post, debunking myths. That is what is called promoting…,
and it is currently illegal in Uganda (<i>Bite
me. If that is promotion, I will promote…!).</i> This blog is a shameless promoter
of homosexuality.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rev. Byamugisha<a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/commentary/anti-gay-anger-is-neither-christian-nor-african-4294776">
also states</a></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“Just like people living with
HIV/Aids, suspected homosexuals suffer…”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Byamugisha has experienced first
hand the stigma and prejudice of HIV/AIDS. And in his mind, the stigma and
prejudice of ‘homosexuality’ in Uganda might seem similar.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don’t think it is, though the
processes might be similar in social psychology. Ultimately, HIV/AIDS is an
infection. Its stigma was largely based on fear. The stigma and prejudice due
to homosexuality especially in Uganda and much of Africa is different. Most people
don’t realistically fear that they will become homosexual. We are a small,
marginalised population which is not growing, despite the anti-gay hype. <u>We
are not going to make YOU homosexual! </u>Most adults confident in their
sexuality would not believe it so…, but, the anti-gay activists play to that
fear, extensively.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">HIV infection particularly affects
kuchus. We then suffer a double stigma. Stigma of HIV infection and the stigma
due to our sexuality.<br />
In Uganda, at the moment, it is easier to come out as a person living with HIV.
It is much, much harder to come out as kuchu. And those of us who are forced to
come out would embrace being HIV positive before we embrace or come out as
kuchu. That is brutal, but it is what is on the ground.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the end, Rev Godfrey Byamugisha
was very, very courageous. Calling out one’s bosses for moral failings is
suicidal…, metaphorically speaking. But, he does it. And he does it on behalf
of a minor, marginalised, persecuted social group, the kuchu in Uganda.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Damnation…, whenever I start
cementing my belief in the evil of religion; Christian and Islam in Uganda and
Africa…, there comes someone with the guts to call out my budding prejudice.<br />
Most Christians and Moslems would lynch me, literally and metaphorically in
Uganda and Africa, because of my sexuality. But, <b><i><u>most does not mean all</u></i></b>.
There are a brave few willing to challenge the rivers of hate flowing.<br />
Yeah, they do deserve a certain respectful notice. The <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/commentary/anti-gay-anger-is-neither-christian-nor-african-4294776">Godfrey
Byamugisha’s</a>, <a href="https://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/news/news-and-statements/archbishop-canterburys-statement-church-uganda">Justin
Welby</a> and <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/04/pope-francis-statements-on-homosexuality.html">Pope
Francis’</a> of this world. They are boulders rolling against the flow of
rivers of institutionalised hate, and deserve my respect.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug</span></p>
<p></p>gayugandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14079301892908040760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342765803257372958.post-67978083765513385352023-07-11T11:00:00.001+03:002023-07-11T11:00:00.146+03:00Reverend Gideon Byamugisha; Breath of (fresh) good air<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reverend Gideon Byamugisha. <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/toxic-environment-kuchu-in-uganda-africa.html">An
interesting man of courage</a>. It is definitely courageous for a Ugandan to
come out with a pro-gay attitude. Political correctness in Uganda is to be virulent,
emotional, hyper-holy, <span> </span>anti-homosexuality. And, as a priest in the
Church of Uganda, with the bishops and Archbishop of the Church leading the
anti-gay crusade in Uganda…, I must say it is courageous of him, penning and <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/commentary/anti-gay-anger-is-neither-christian-nor-african-4294776">having
that article published</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">True courage. When he first
publicly admitted that he was living with HIV, it was at the height of anti-HIV
prejudice in the country. The virus was feared, and taken as a curse to the
wicked. And here came a Reverend, a man of god, admitting that he was living
with the virus. A special kind of courage indeed.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And what does he say about the
debate on homosexuality in the country?<br />
I think the most important thing is that he is talking with the gravitas of an
elder, and church person, steeped in the Ugandan psych.<br />
Yeah, condescending. But, that kind of tone is the norm in Uganda. His points
are stated in a way that resonates, or would resonate with Ugandans. Fact, he
is not going to be listened to, because the prejudice is embraced by too many
‘influencers’, religious and otherwise.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“I find the moral language used,
the emotions generated, and the levels of psychic aggression and spiritual
violence generated around this community unreligious and uncultured too”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Interesting language. A basic call
out to decency. Common decency. The likes of Martin Ssempa of the Pentecostals,
Stephen Kaziimba of the Anglicans and Archbishop Ssemogerere of the Catholic
Church embrace anti-gay rhetoric as THE confession of their holiness and
righteousness. Calling them out, in the face of their <a href="https://churchofuganda.org/blog/2023/05/29/church-of-uganda-grateful-for-anti-homosexuality-act-2023/">continued
publicly embraced opinions</a> will exert a price. Because it is accurate, and
few would say otherwise. They say it is a matter of African Culture. And our
African religion. Bullshit…, but, that is what they embrace. And he is calling
them out, <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/commentary/anti-gay-anger-is-neither-christian-nor-african-4294776">as
a matter of common decency</a>.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“It is not correct to continue
glossing over our own spiritual shortcomings, our moral gaps, and our pastoral
care failings towards those we unfairly stigmatise and self-righteously
ridicule year after year without a deep reflection on how our own individual and
collective actions or inactions could have contributed to their unique ‘being’
and ‘experience’.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blasphemous…, Rev Gideon
Byamugisha.<br />
How dare you accuse Uganda’s anti-gay Saints of <u>‘spiritual shortcomings,
moral gaps and pastoral care failings</u>’? How dare you go beyond not joining
the anti-Homosexual Crusade, to actually attacking the leaders of the
Crusade?!!! Blasphemy… I can imagine Martin Ssempa spitting on your
metaphorical grave on live TV. <i><u>HOW,
DARE, YOU?!</u></i></span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;">A <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/commentary/anti-gay-anger-is-neither-christian-nor-african-4294776">quirky
turn of phrase</a>..,</span></p>
<p class="Journal1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">“.., <b><i>equally loveless and
non-repentantly self-righteous.</i></b>”</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Spot on…, in my clearly biased
view. We, Ugandans are the typical, proud Pharisees of the times of the
Nazarene… We are actually out-christianing the people who brought the religions
in our colonial periods, <a href="https://churchofuganda.org/blog/2023/06/09/archbishop-kaziimba-responds-to-archbishop-of-canterbury-on-anti-homosexuality-act-2023/">demanding
that they ‘repent’,</a> of the sin of loving homosexuals, of course! More angel
than the very angels, indeed!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh, Byamugisha doesn’t spare the
self-righteous tools of the men, and women of god.., the sneaky politicians.</span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“I pray that in the future, our
Members of Parliament should not table and debate laws against minority
Ugandans with such deep and toxic levels of personal anger, social prejudice,
civic disgust, and spiritual hate.”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Come on, Rev Byamugisha. How else would
the honourable politicians take advantage of such a popular ‘moral’ issue? How
would they deflect from the stealing of mabaati from the desperate Karamojong
citizens of Uganda? How would they duck the heady winds of corruption? Good
theatre, claiming the moral high ground; <span> </span><i><u>the
expression of ‘such deep and toxic levels of personal anger, social prejudice,
civic disgust, spiritual hate’</u></i>. All good politics…, and you want to
deny them claim of that rich political capital, in the name of some spurious
benefits (with the sins are so ‘self evident’?)<br />
You, Rev Byamugisha, are only one person. They have shade from the influential
Bishops, Archbishops and mega pastors!</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am gay, a Ugandan kuchu. I
confess that, unreservedly. But, Byamugisha calling out the simply evil ways
that anti-gay forces in Uganda operate is interesting. And funny. And a poke in
the eyes of influential, powerful others..</span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“When people or certain
communities divert most of their energies from innovation and production to
spying on, lying about, hunting, and destroying each other; …”</i></b></span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh yes.., remember the ‘Pastor
Wars Saga’, which are continuing, even if low key at the moment.<br />
Am kuchu. It is funny realising that all the sins and evils that I am accused
of in Uganda are actually a daily tool of choice by those who are supposedly
holy and immaculate in their righteousness. <br />
Byamugisha calls them out.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Will Rev Byamugisha be heeded?<br />
Most probably not. Strike that…, Byamugisha will certainly NOT be heard or even
listened to. Too many politicians, of the state and the churches and mosque are
invested in anti-gay rhetoric. He will most likely be punished, if not openly,
but definitely covertly. He dares to be ‘pro-gay’. Even Archbishop Welby of the
Church of England was derided for being a <a href="https://churchofuganda.org/blog/2023/06/09/archbishop-kaziimba-responds-to-archbishop-of-canterbury-on-anti-homosexuality-act-2023/">homosexual
promoter and demanded repent of the sin</a>, by none other than Archbishop
Kaziira of the Church of Uganda, who is Rev Byamugisha’s superior and boss.<br />
But, it is good to have <a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/commentary/anti-gay-anger-is-neither-christian-nor-african-4294776">a
breath of good air</a>, in the toxic anti-gay smog and fog in Uganda. <a href="https://gayuganda.blogspot.com/2023/07/toxic-environment-kuchu-in-uganda-africa.html">Byamugisha
does the one thing that I fail</a> to do.., speak in language that is
understandable to Ugandans.</span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>
<p class="Journal1" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">gug.</span></p>
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