Deborah Kintu

The Ugandan Morality Crusade

The Brutal Campaign Against Homosexuality and Pornography Under Yoweri Museveni

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1999, General Museveni, Uganda's autocratic leader, ordered police to arrest homosexuals for engaging in behavior that he characterized as "un-African" and against Biblical teaching. A state-sanctioned campaign of harassment of LGBT people followed. With the approval of sections of Uganda's clergy (and with the support of U.S. evangelicals) harsh morality laws were passed against pornography and homosexual acts. The former law disproportionately affected urban women, curtailing their freedoms. The latter--known as the "kill the gays bill"--called for life imprisonment or capital punishment for homosexuals. The author weaves together a series of vignettes that trace the development of Uganda's morality laws amidst Machiavellian politics, religious fundamentalism and the human rights struggle of LGBT Ugandans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781476670683
• ISBN-10: 1476670684
• Artikelnr.: 47773394

Autorenporträt

Deborah Kintu is an Ugandan-born writer who now lives in Georgia.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface
I. The Rise of the Anti-LGBT Crusaders
II. Myth of a Ugandan Sexuality and Gender Identity
III. Legislating and Policing Morality Over the Years
IV. The Uganda Church and Homosexuality
V. The General's Impunity and the Politicization of Sexuality
VI. From the Closet to a Kuchu Identity
VII.¿Unraveling of the Anti-Homosexuality Law
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index