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Telegraph
February 16, 2014
Uganda is facing an exodus of its gay population if the country presses ahead with a controversial bill that allows life imprisonment for homosexuality.
Gay activists in the country believe that large numbers of Ugandan gays will flee if President Yoweri Museveni fails to veto the bill, which could otherwise become law by the end of next week.
The Ugandan leader has been urged by Britain and other Westerns nations to block the bill, but is under pressure from conservatives in his parliament, which voted by a majority in favour of it in December.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Frank Mugisha, a leading Ugandan gay activist, said that hostility to gays in Uganda had increased since the vote, and that many would leave the country altogether if Mr Museveni failed to exercise his veto. Britain, which ran Ghana as a protectorate until 1962, would be an obvious destination to seek asylum in, both because of its colonial links and its reputation as a liberal country for gays to live in.
Mr Mugisha, who was speaking during a visit to London to lobby the Foreign Office on the matter, said: “The British government should be acting more and talking to our politicians more about the bill. If it is passed there will definitely be consequences for Uganda. Countries like Britain and US will get many Ugandan asylum seekers.”
Mr Mugisha, 32, is the director of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), a semi-clandestine network that risks both life and liberty in representing the gay community in Uganda. One of his former colleagues, David Kato, was murdered in 2011, while Mr Mugisha himself has been beaten up in public and thrown in jail many times.
Nonetheless, he and his colleagues regard themselves as part of a growing community not just in Uganda but across Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole. Many say it is a sign of improving living standards in the region’s better-off nations, creating a liberal, Western-leaning middle class that is more open to alternative lifestyles.
