On the 31st of March 2020, the Uganda Police Force arrested 20 LGBTQ+ people for disobeying the social distancing rules in Uganda following the outbreak of the coronavirus in the country. According to a report on Openly, the 20 LGBTQ+ persons comprised 14 gay men, 2 bisexual men, and 4 transgender women. The Ugandan Police…
In 37 countries in the Commonwealth, same-sex relations are criminalised and most of these laws come from old British colonial laws that have never been replaced. However, quite a number of the governments will refer to homosexuality as a “western import.” Community members in some of these countries face violence and end up fleeing from…
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