Ugandan president signs anti-LGBTQ+ law with death penalty for same-sex acts

Global outcry over Museveni's assent to draconian new anti-gay law, condemned as a 'permission slip for hate and dehumanisation' Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, has signed into law the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which allows the death penalty for homosexual acts. The move immediately drew widespread international outrage as well as condemnation from many Ugandans. Early on Monday, the speaker of the Ugandan parliament, Anita Among, released a statement on social media confirming Mus...