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LGBTQ Leaders Talk Pope Francis’ Legacy

GLAAD — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 20:05:12 +0000

Today, April 21, 2025, Pope Francis passed away. Pope Francis has repeatedly urged acceptance of LGBTQ people and considered how best the Roman Catholic Church can support and minister to them. GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said: “Pope Francis was a transformational leader who included LGBTQ people in historic ways. Having had the [...]

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GLAAD ELEVATES ADVOCATES IN UGANDA AND RESPONDS TO COURT RULING UPHOLDING DANGEROUS ANTI-LGBTQ LAW

Heidi Spillum, Web Producer — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:29:48 +0000

GLAAD: “Uganda’s anti-homosexuality act has already brought so much destruction upon the Ugandan people. Advocates have been violently persecuted, health organizations have been shut down, families have been broken apart. This court ruling will only further alienate Uganda from the global community. It demonstrates how at risk the LGBTQ community is, in Uganda and around [...]

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Rachel Maddow traces anti-LGBTQ legislation in Uganda to activists in Arizona

Lana Leonard — Tue, 02 May 2023 02:32:43 +0000

The Uganda Parliament is likely to pass its revised version of the 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Law after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni refused to sign the provision passed by parliament in late March. Museveni said that he will sign whatever they pass later this week, according to Frank Mugisha the executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG). The [...]

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Deutsche Bank, Open For Business, among other LGBTQ Leaders, denounce Uganda’s 2023 Anti-LGBTQ Law

Lana Leonard — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 19:16:10 +0000

On March 28 Open For Business – a coalition of global businesses working for LGBTQ inclusion, for which Deutsche Bank, a German multinational investment bank, is part – spoke out in a press release against Uganda’s 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed earlier this month. Global businesses a part of the coalition include Meta, LinkedIn, Deutsche Bank, [...]

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Uganda passes even more dangerous law to criminalize LGBTQ people: “…this is a significant step backwards”

Lana Leonard — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:37:03 +0000

The Ugandan Parliament passed a law on Tuesday which would, among other draconian provisions, make it illegal for people to identify as LGBTQ. The law expands on the 2014 Anti-Homosexuality Law, which when passed (and struck down that same year due to procedural measures), criminalized broad same-sex acts by adults. The new 2023 amendment identifies deviators of the [...]

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Ugandan LGBTQ leaders cry for support after media attacks on affirming church

jtorres — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:16:43 +0000

GLAAD joined up with The Fellowship for Affirming Ministries to call attention to continued violence againt LGBTQ people in Uganda, and call on the Trump administration to live up to its loud promises to protect LGBTQ people and people of faith.

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If Grenell’s global campaign is working, someone forgot to tell LGBTQ Ugandans

jeremyhooper — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 14:22:39 +0000

Two prominent Ugandan newspapers published salacious reports of a same-sex marriage that was supposedly performed at a pro-LGBTQ church in Uganda. This follows Ugandan politicians resurrecting a worse version of the so-called "Kill The Gays" bill and the murder of a prominent young LGBTQ activist -- the fourth to occur in Uganda in just a four month period.

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