Uganda passes bill banning identifying as LGBTQ
Although the rest of the world makes progress towards inclusiveness, Uganda approved a bill on Tuesday that makes it unlawful to identify as LGBTQ.
The new law gives authorities broad new powers against Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence.
The law seems to be the first to ban merely identifying as homosexual, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer, according to the rights group Human Rights Watch.
Uganda to impose death penalty for homosexuality
The promotion and facilitation of homosexuality are prohibited under the new Ugandan law in addition to the prior prohibition.
Additionally, it prohibits “conspiracy to engage in homosexuality.”
A person who commits the offence of aggravated homosexuality and is liable, on conviction to suffer death.
Including Uganda, more than 30 African countries forbid same-sex relationships.
Europe
Numerous European nations lack legal restrictions on homosexual behaviour.
Yet, according to the BBC, Hungary enacted a legislation “banning the portrayal or promotion of homosexuality among under-18s” in 2021.
Senior figures in EU have strongly criticised the law and have portrayed it as a “Russian style” anti-LGBT propaganda law. The European Commission has sued Hungary to the EU's Court of Justice over this law.
Hungary has prohibited same-sex couples from adopting children, does not recognise same-sex marriage, and has approved legislation that forbids anyone from legally altering their gender.