{"id":10801,"date":"2023-05-28T15:45:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T15:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10801"},"modified":"2023-05-28T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T15:45:39","slug":"ugandas-extreme-anti-lgbtq-legislation-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10801","title":{"rendered":"Uganda\u2019s extreme anti-LGBTQ legislation, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Uganda is one of several African nations where it is illegal to be queer; the nation enacted its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2014\/05\/14\/uganda-anti-homosexuality-acts-heavy-toll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anti-Homosexuality Act<\/a>&nbsp;in 2014, which allowed for life imprisonment for some homosexual acts between consenting adults, and codified the repression of LGBTQ Ugandans. That legislation was annulled in court in 2014, though homosexuality was still illegal per previous law,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2023\/03\/09\/uganda-new-anti-gay-bill-further-threatens-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to a Human Rights Watch report<\/a>.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/2023\/4\/23\/23694169\/ugandas-extreme-anti-lgbtq-legislation-explained\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/2023\/4\/23\/23694169\/ugandas-extreme-anti-lgbtq-legislation-explained<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Uganda is one of several African nations where it is illegal to be queer; the nation enacted its Anti-Homosexuality Act in 2014, which allowed for life imprisonment for some homosexual acts between consenting adults, and codified the repression of LGBTQ Ugandans. That legislation was annulled in court in 2014, though homosexuality was still illegal per previous law, according to a Human Rights Watch report.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[417,86,697,1205,906,919,1886],"class_list":["post-10801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-africa","tag-discrimination","tag-homosexual","tag-homosexuality","tag-legislation","tag-lgbtq","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10802,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions\/10802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}