TWO MEN FACE LIFE IN PRISON ON GAY CHARGES
Two men in Uganda are set to be the first to be tried on homosexuality charges since the country’s recent anti-homosexuality law was signed by President Museveni. Kim Mukisa, 24, and Jackson Mukasa, 19, face life imprisonment should they be found guilty of having had gay sex. The men were arrested in December last year […]
CLIFF RICHARD: GAY RUMOURS DON’T MATTER
British pop legend Sir Cliff Richard has asked if “it would make any difference” if he is gay. The 73-year-old singer and one-time heartthrob spoke about marriage and his sexuality in an interview with Australia’s A Current Affair. Richard, who has sold an estimated 250 million records worldwide, said that he never got married because […]
BOY SCOUTS PUNISH TROOP OVER GAY SCOUTMASTER
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has taken action against a Scout troop and a progressive church that backed an openly gay Scoutmaster. At the end of March, the BSA told Geoffrey McGrath that he could not continue as a Scoutmaster of the Seattle Council Troop 98 because he is gay. The Rainier Beach United Methodist […]
REPORT: NIGERIA GAY TEEN “CULT” FOUND
The governor of a Nigerian state has claimed that “a cult of teenage homosexuals” has been uncovered. Emmanuel Uduaghan, governor of Delta, one of 36 Nigerian states, made the pronouncement in his Easter message at the First Baptist Church in Warri on Sunday. According to the Vanguard newspaper, he claimed that the teenagers – between […]
SOUTH AFRICANS SAY HOMOSEXUALITY IMMORAL
The majority of South Africans continue to see homosexuality as morally unacceptable, according to the results of a global survey on morality. The Pew Research Centre’s 2013 Global Attitudes survey asked 40,117 people in 40 countries what they thought about eight topics often discussed as moral issues: extramarital affairs, gambling, homosexuality, abortion, premarital sex, alcohol […]