George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Mar 22, 2023
What’s happening in Uganda with criminalization of even *being* LGBT, with death penalties written into law for some people, should and must shock the world into action.
Show threadCarlos Solís
Who wrote such a draconian law, and why? Is it some religious propaganda? Or good old secular bigotry?
Mar 22, 2023 at 5:22pmWeb
Show threadStevenMar 22, 2023

@csolisr @georgetakei

There is a lot of history behind Uganda's anti-LGBT laws but if you are interested in how they got here the 2013 film "God Loves Uganda" is a pretty good place to start.

Show threadScott GallowayMar 23, 2023
@csolisr @georgetakei Good old US Evangelism https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/19/africa-uganda-evangelicals-homophobia-antigay-bill/
How U.S. Evangelicals Helped Homophobia Flourish in Africa

Anti-gay sentiment had previously existed on the continent, but white American religious groups have given it a boost.

Foreign Policy