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Culhane: What’s at stake in Uganda

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:00:46 +0000

I want to broaden the focus this week from the usual legal analysis of the LGBT movement in the U.S., and ask this question: What’s really at stake in the pending anti-homosexuality bill in(...)

Gay Iranian may be deported

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:19:33 +0000

Towleroad has a heartbreaking post today about Mohammad Abdollahi, an undocumented gay Iranian whose participation in an immigration protest at John McCain’s office Monday may lead to his(...)

Neff: Fear in Uganda

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:40:14 +0000

A bill is before Uganda lawmakers that would further criminalize same-sex sex and gay rights activity in the African nation.

Last week, during the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.,(...)

BBC slammed for debating Ugandan bill to kill gays

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:00:54 +0000

(London) Politicians are criticizing the BBC for inviting debate on whether homosexuals should face execution in Uganda.

The broadcaster launched an on-line debate over a proposed Ugandan law(...)

Uganda to remove death penalty from anti-gay bill

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:04:39 +0000

Uganda will drop executions and life imprisonment from it’s ”anti-homosexuality,” but will instead direct gays to “ex-gay” programs.

James Nsaba Buturo, minister for ethics and integrity, said(...)

Human Rights Watch: Iraqi gays tortured and killed

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:20:39 +0000

(Baghdad) Militiamen are torturing and killing gay Iraqi men with impunity in a systematic campaign that has spread from Baghdad to several other cities, a prominent human rights group said in(...)

Vanasco: Iraqi gay situation gets worse

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:40:47 +0000

Iraqi gay men – and straight men who are too flamboyant or too Western – are being hunted down by militants in Iraq and publicly executed, USA Today reports in a chilling story:

“At least 82(...)