Explainer: Why Did Uganda’s Second-Highest Court Uphold the Death Penalty for ‘Aggravated Homosexuality?’
“Researchers [politicalresearch.org] and advocacy groups have long linked Ugandan A form of heterosexism that devalues and scapegoats gay, lesbian, and bisexual people and people in same-gender relationships. Learn more with the influence of socially conservative US Christian Evangelical groups in the country. In particular, this theory holds that homosexuality is framed as a Western import, thus fueling its rejection with a post-colonial repulsion to external influence. A 2009 report [politicalresearch.org] for Political Research Associates described the phenomenon.”