Sandra Ntebi is probably one of the most known names in Uganda’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex community. Sandra is the Chairperson of the National LGBTI Security Committee, a board tasked with providing solutions to community members if and when they find themselves in security conundrums.
Kuchu Times Editor
Most historians agree that there is evidence of homosexual activity and same-sex love, whether such relationships were accepted or persecuted, in every documented culture. Doctors Sigmund Freud and Magnus Hirschfield’s writings were sympathetic to the concept of a homosexual or bisexual orientation occurring naturally in an identifiable segment of humankind, and Freud himself did not consider homosexuality an illness or a crime.
The Love Not Hate campaign, a South African nation-wide multi-partner initiative addressing violence against LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) people, recently reported a senseless murder of a young lesbian woman.
Adebayor, as he is commonly known, is one of the sports personalities in the Ugandan LGBTI movement; he holds many accolades in different sporting fields ranging from national pool tournaments, soccer, swimming to athletics. He is also the chief gym instructor in one of the executive hotels in Kampala.
Court earlier this week heard a constitutional petition challenging the use of forced anal examinations of men accused of homosexuality. Under international law, forced anal examinations are a form of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment that may amount to torture, a practice that is widely common in sodomy and homosexuality cases in the East African nation.
A Giza misdemeanour court sentenced 11 men to terms of up to 12 years in prison over charges of “inciting debauchery” after they were arrested for allegedly committing homosexual acts.
Freedom Day quickly turned tragic for South Africa’s LGBT community, following the murder of a gay man who was stabbed and brutally assaulted with a pole. 27-year-old Tebogo Mokhoto was killed in a bloody attack on the East Rand, during which he was anally raped with a wooden object.
The Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders yesterday announced the three finalists who will be receiving this year’s prestigious honor. The award, created in 1993, is granted annually to individuals who have demonstrated an exceptional record of combating human rights violations by courageous means and is in need of protection.
Societal attitudes towards same-sex relationships have varied over time and place, from expecting all males to engage in same-sex relationships, to seeing the practice as a minor sin, repressing it through law enforcement and judicial mechanisms, and to proscribing it under penalty of death.