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Legislation adopted last year outraged LGBTQ+ community, rights activists, the UN and western nationsUganda’s constitutional court has rejected a bid to overturn a controversial anti-gay law that is considered one of the toughest in the world.“We decline to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 in its entirety, neither will we grant a permanent injunction against its enforcement,” Justice Richard Buteera, Uganda’s deputy chief justice and...

Activists welcome sanction on Sarah Achieng Opendi and other legislators against a backdrop of anti-LGBTQ+ oppression in AfricaThe Ugandan MP Sarah Achieng Opendi, who called for homosexuals to be castrated during a parliamentary debate on the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws has been denied a visa to attend a UN meeting in New York next week.Opendi expressed “shock” after the US embassy in Kampala rejected...

Steven Kabuye was stabbed by unknown assailants on a motorbike after receiving death threatsA prominent Ugandan LGBTQ+ activist is in a critical condition after he was stabbed on his way to work on Wednesday by unknown assailants on a motorbike.Steven Kabuye, 25, suffered knife wounds and was left for dead in the assault on the outskirts of the capital Kampala before being found by...