Talk:LGBT rights in Uganda

message: The article seems to be unclear on whether Ugandan law allows for a life sentence for homosexual activity or not. On one hand it says that there is a life sentence, but on the other hand it says that the law instating the life sentence was overturned by the Ugandan Supreme Court. What's the truth here? —Pinnerup (talk) 20:21, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there life imprisonment or not? 

message: SMUG was ordered to shut down by the government in August 2022. Can someone update that on this page please? I do not know the best way to word it or how to cite source. Kittyclassified (talk) 18:10, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  LGBT Rights Activism 

message: Although there was anti-LGBT sentiment as in other places in Africa, there was no extreme anti-gay or anti-LGBT legislation in Uganda before the arrival of conservative American right-wing Christian groups in 2009, who went all around the country lecturing, and who as a result were eventually invited to speak to Uganda's parliament, labeling homosexuality as a Western-imported "disease" that could be spread to the children of Uganda, and recasting homosexuality as similar to pedophilia, justifying harsh crackdowns in the law. Some sources: NY Times, 2012, Christian Science Monitor, 2014, WaPo, 24 March 2023, Foreign Policy, 23 March, and references at article Scott Lively. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 03:00, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a short paragraph in the beginning of the "Laws and Policies" section: LGBT rights in Uganda#Laws and policies that has a sentence about this, the sources here could add information to that section. I'll get right on that. Aaronlearns (talk) 21:13, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article ignores a major part of the story 

message: I have removed the following two sources from the article, which were used to support the claim that "Homosexual relations were accepted and commonplace in precolonial Ugandan society":
* The idea that African homosexuality was a colonial import is a myth: this is an opinion piece by a novelist which mentions Uganda twice, in reference to Museveni and the Anti-Homosexuality Act. It does not even mention homosexuality in precolonial Uganda, except indirectly in the very general statement, "Throughout history people everywhere have explored and experimented with their sexuality. The desire to do so has never been confined to particular geographical locations." The piece discusses homosexual practices in other parts of Africa, but not Uganda. The author concludes by plugging her latest novel. This opinion piece was cited as a source multiple times in the article, despite containing no information at all on the history of homosexuality in Uganda.
* Ugandan Documentary on Gay Love in Pre-Colonial Africa: this is an article about a documentary on the Ugandan Martyrs. On the face of it, it seems inappropriate at best, and offensive at worst, to use a king raping his subordinates as evidence of "homosexual relations [being] accepted and commonplace".
I have also removed the claim itself. There's no doubt of course that homosexuality existed in precolonial Uganda, but we need much better sources for the sweeping claim that it was "accepted and commonplace". Adda'r Yw (talk) 21:24, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of sources