Ugandans flee as Kill the Gays gains momentum across Africa

The woman in the foreground holds a sign to remind people of the shocking repression of the LGBTI community in Uganda.
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Gay Ugandans are fleeing the country as the government’s Anti-Homosexuality Act moves closer to becoming law.

“The government and the people of Uganda are against our existence,” said Mbajjwe Nimiro Wilson, a 24-year-old refugee now living in a shelter in neighboring Kenya.

Before escaping with just a backpack of belongings, Wilson was cornered by a hostile crowd on the street as he tried to buy groceries.

“They kept saying, ‘We will hunt you. You gays should be killed. We will slaughter you,’” he told The New York Times. “There was no option but to leave.”

Uganda’s latest Kill the Gays law is having its intended effect.

“It is good that you rejected the pressure from the imperials,” Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said on Thursday, as he sent the country’s Anti-Homosexuality Act back to Parliament for additional consideration before he signs it.

The Biden administration calls the latest “Kill the Gays” bill “one of the most extreme” anti-LGBTQ+ measures anywhere in the world. The proposal mandates…

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