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In other words, Uganda looked to the cruel, conservative logic of the U.S. legal system to justify its own law to kill queer people.most of the provisions of a law that imposes the death penalty—by hanging—on people convicted of “aggravated homosexuality.” The court argues in favor of this monstrous position for a number of reasons.
In other words, Uganda looked to the cruel, conservative logic of the U.S. legal system to justify its own law to kill queer people. Almost any act of state violence and dehumanization can be justified by the principle of upholding a “nation’s history and traditions.” That includes the government forcing pregnant people—including child rape victims,, or people who simply don’t want to experience the violence of forced pregnancy—to give birth against their will.
The Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023 was passed in May and vaguely defines “aggravated homosexuality” as acts that spread terminal illness, involve a “serial offender,” or a person with a disability. It also includes incest and pedophilia. After the law was passed, the U.S. announced sanctions and restrictions on Ugandan passports and the World Bank suspended lending,to Reuters.
In upholding the death penalty, Uganda’s Constitutional Court also cited the “absence of consensus at the global level regarding non-discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics”—which is certainly an indictment of the international community including the U.S., whereIn Uganda, LGBTQ expression is criminalized under the national penal code, and includes a wide range of sexual acts that are “against the order of nature.
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