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‘Our children are gay and proudly African’: a mother’s plea to a president | Linda Mafu

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Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni led the fight against Aids. To finish the job, he must set aside his country’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill

A toxic wave of homophobia is surging across east Africa. It is crashing down in Uganda, where members of parliament recently passed a bill that makes being gay a crime punishable by death and not reporting homosexuality a criminal offence. The most common refrain echoed by the anti-gay movement is that homosexuality is “un-African”.

That belief is totally unfounded and ahistorical. As an African mother who has raised a gay child, it breaks my heart to hear such arguments. I know that my son and thousands of other children across Africa are both gay and fully, proudly African.

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