Uganda is one of 36 African countries where homosexuality is illegal. It's a notoriously intolerant place for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

Uganda accused the U.S. of pushing an “LGBT agenda” in the wake of pushback to an anti-gay law. “There’s a coup at the State Department in the U.S. It is being taken over by people who are ...

Sadly, while this bill is extreme, Uganda is hardly alone in its anti-LGBT posture. Of the 64 or so countries that still criminalize same-sex relationships, at least half — at least 32 by most ...

LGBT activist says she'd rather be jailed than forced out of Uganda "I would condemn him. ... Like the vast majority of Uganda’s LGBT community, he leads a secret, double life.

Under such a pretext, Uganda’s authorities have shut down the offices of LGBT+ organisations, including Sexual Minorities Uganda, which is one of the country’s most prominent.

Uganda’s LGBT faith leaders say God’s love is unconditional . Ugandan human rights activist Barigye Ambrose profiles religious LGBTI Ugandans and their allies who have stood firm in ...

How Uganda’s LGBT Community Is Fighting for the Right to Exist. 1 minute read. By Salima Koroma and Aryn Baker. June 8, 2015 10:36 AM EDT. H akim Semeebwr, also known as Bad Black, is a ...

Bishops Gene Robinson and Christopher Senyonjo discuss Uganda’s recent antigay legislation and what it means for the U.S. conversation about LGBT rights. Uganda’s legislature has been ...

Uganda's first and most outspoken gay-rights advocate, David Kato, was beaten to death with a hammer in January 2011, three months after a tabloid ran an anti-gay story with Kato's picture under a ...

The film centers on the work of David Kato, the first openly gay man in Uganda. Kato and his fellow activists tell their harrowing stories which include tales of being cast out by families, rape ...

Last year, LGBT refugees in Nairobi received a disproportionately large number of slots allocated for resettlement of refugees, but it was still only 75. Those who remain wait to see if they'll be ...

Without US funding as leverage, one of Uganda’s most prominent LGBT+ activists Steven Kabuye tells Rachel Schraer, there are few ways to push the country towards change ...