Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: August 17, 2015
Article: Out In Africa
Page: 34
Author: Aryn Baker
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1. The article took place in Kampala.
2. Kampala is located in Uganda.
3. Joseph Kawesi is the name of the transgender activist in Uganda.
4. Ugandan tabloids are information sources that out prominent figures in Uganda and calls for them to be killed.
5. Red Pepper is the name of one tabloid.
6. Uganda enacted a law in February 2014 that allows courts to sentence LGBT citizens to life in prison.
7. Red Pepper printed "Uganda's Top 200 Homos."
8. This is the percentage of the population in these countries think homosexuality is unacceptable: 98% in Nigeria, 90% in Kenya, 96% in Uganda, 97% in Jordan, 96% in Senegal, 96% in Ghana
9. 20 countries accept homosexuality and same-sex marriage as legal.
10. Homophobia is the norm in Africa.
11. 34 African countries currently criminalize homosexuality.
12. Laura Carter is the adviser on sexual orientation and gender identity at Amnesty International.
13. Religious conservatives are losing the battle on LGBT rights in the West.
14. African politicians see LGBT rights as an unwanted Western import.
15. African politicians have responded by drafting anti-gay legislation in their country/countries.
16. African countries still have sodomy laws.
17. U.S. President Barack Obama compared anti-gay legislation to laws that once justified slavery and segregation in the U.S.
18. Uhuru Kenyatta is the President of Kenya.
19. Ugandan Pastors became concerned about what they saw as the growing influence of liberal Western values in Uganda and what they feared would be the accompanying acceptance of homosexuality.
20. Uganda Pastors invited a trio of American evangelicals to Kampala to lead a conference/seminar titled "Exposing the Homosexuals' Agenda."
21. Scott Lively, Don Schmierer and Caleb Lee Brundidge were the 3 U.S. Pastors that led the seminar.
22. Caleb Lee Brundidge promoted so-called gay-conversation therapy.
23. Scott Lively has spent 20 years fighting what he calls the gay community's Marxist plot to break down the nuclear family model and destroy civilization.
24. Abiding Truth Ministries is the Massachusetts Christian Organization that Scott Lively found.
25. Clare Byarugaba said that her church wanted her to sign a petition demanding the death penalty for LGBT people.
26. Uganda's Finance Minister David Bahati introduced a bill calling for the death penalty for gay people, six weeks after Scott Lively's visit to Uganda.
27. Simon Lokodo is Uganda's Minister for Ethics and Integrity.
28. Yes, Uganda's Minister for Ethics and Integrity is a Catholic priest.
29. Simon Lokodo feels Uganda had to improve their penal code in order to eradicate recruitment, promotion and exhibition of homosexuality.
30. David Bahati's bill of the death penalty for gay people was passed in December 2013.
31. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signed David Bahati's bill into law.
32. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni feels homosexuality is an example of the West's "social imperialism."
33. Scott Lively was "mortified" that Bahati's Anti-Homosexuality Act included the death penalty.
34. Scott Lively lobbied to have the Anti-Homosexuality Act changed.
35. Horatio G. Mihet is Scott Lively's lawyer.
36. Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, brought a civil case in a U.S. federal court in Boston against Lively on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG).
37. SMUG is located in Kampala.
38. SMUG is a LGBT advocacy group.
39. The Alien Tort Statue gives survivors of human-rights abuses the ability to sue the perpetrators in the U.S.
40. Diane Bakuraira, SMUG Activist, said "It (the case against Lively), provides a check for those evangelicals who want to preach homophobia and lets them know that it is no longer acceptable."
41. Horatio G. Mihet said, "The notion that Africans cannot think for themselves and independently enact their own public policies on homosexuality is both racist and offensive. The sovereign people of Uganda, and their duly elected parliament, are responsible for Uganda's laws and policies."
42. Uganda's court overturned the law in August 2014 on a technicality.
43. Hakim Semeebwr goes by the name "Bad Black."
44. The Prohibition of Promotion of Unnatural Sexual Practices Act is the name of the bill that took over from the Anti-Homosexuality Act.
45. "Promotion" means publishing materials in support of Uganda's LGBT community or providing health care to LGBT citizens.
46. Simon Lokodo, Uganda's Minister for Ethics and Integrity, said, "If you are homosexual, it is unfortunate."
47. Simon Lokodo said, "But to go out on the streets of Kampala and say, 'I am gay,' is the same as saying, 'I am a thief or a murderer.' It's like handing yourself to the police for arrest."
48. Kill-The-Gays Bill was the Anti-Homosexuality Act dubbed by the popular press.
49. Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto said, there was "no room for gays" in the country (of Kenya).
50. Gambian President Yahya Jammeh threatened to slit the throats of gay men the same week that Kenya's Deputy President addressed a church congregation in May.
51. Lawyer Ladislaus Kiiza Rwakafuuzi feels attitudes towards gays will eventually change, both in Uganda and in Africa.
52. Lawyer Ladislaus Kiiza Rwakafuuzi said, "the more of these laws they bring, the more they are watering down the fear of homosexuality."
53. Hakim Semeebwr career as a male television presenter was cut short when one of the tabloids exposed her gender identity in December.
Date: August 17, 2015
Article: Out In Africa
Page: 34
Author: Aryn Baker
U-$1.00-B-0.0046743907-BE-214
Go to Questions
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Answer Key
1. The article took place in Kampala.
2. Kampala is located in Uganda.
3. Joseph Kawesi is the name of the transgender activist in Uganda.
4. Ugandan tabloids are information sources that out prominent figures in Uganda and calls for them to be killed.
5. Red Pepper is the name of one tabloid.
6. Uganda enacted a law in February 2014 that allows courts to sentence LGBT citizens to life in prison.
7. Red Pepper printed "Uganda's Top 200 Homos."
8. This is the percentage of the population in these countries think homosexuality is unacceptable: 98% in Nigeria, 90% in Kenya, 96% in Uganda, 97% in Jordan, 96% in Senegal, 96% in Ghana
9. 20 countries accept homosexuality and same-sex marriage as legal.
10. Homophobia is the norm in Africa.
11. 34 African countries currently criminalize homosexuality.
12. Laura Carter is the adviser on sexual orientation and gender identity at Amnesty International.
13. Religious conservatives are losing the battle on LGBT rights in the West.
14. African politicians see LGBT rights as an unwanted Western import.
15. African politicians have responded by drafting anti-gay legislation in their country/countries.
16. African countries still have sodomy laws.
17. U.S. President Barack Obama compared anti-gay legislation to laws that once justified slavery and segregation in the U.S.
18. Uhuru Kenyatta is the President of Kenya.
19. Ugandan Pastors became concerned about what they saw as the growing influence of liberal Western values in Uganda and what they feared would be the accompanying acceptance of homosexuality.
20. Uganda Pastors invited a trio of American evangelicals to Kampala to lead a conference/seminar titled "Exposing the Homosexuals' Agenda."
21. Scott Lively, Don Schmierer and Caleb Lee Brundidge were the 3 U.S. Pastors that led the seminar.
22. Caleb Lee Brundidge promoted so-called gay-conversation therapy.
23. Scott Lively has spent 20 years fighting what he calls the gay community's Marxist plot to break down the nuclear family model and destroy civilization.
24. Abiding Truth Ministries is the Massachusetts Christian Organization that Scott Lively found.
25. Clare Byarugaba said that her church wanted her to sign a petition demanding the death penalty for LGBT people.
26. Uganda's Finance Minister David Bahati introduced a bill calling for the death penalty for gay people, six weeks after Scott Lively's visit to Uganda.
27. Simon Lokodo is Uganda's Minister for Ethics and Integrity.
28. Yes, Uganda's Minister for Ethics and Integrity is a Catholic priest.
29. Simon Lokodo feels Uganda had to improve their penal code in order to eradicate recruitment, promotion and exhibition of homosexuality.
30. David Bahati's bill of the death penalty for gay people was passed in December 2013.
31. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signed David Bahati's bill into law.
32. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni feels homosexuality is an example of the West's "social imperialism."
33. Scott Lively was "mortified" that Bahati's Anti-Homosexuality Act included the death penalty.
34. Scott Lively lobbied to have the Anti-Homosexuality Act changed.
35. Horatio G. Mihet is Scott Lively's lawyer.
36. Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, brought a civil case in a U.S. federal court in Boston against Lively on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG).
37. SMUG is located in Kampala.
38. SMUG is a LGBT advocacy group.
39. The Alien Tort Statue gives survivors of human-rights abuses the ability to sue the perpetrators in the U.S.
40. Diane Bakuraira, SMUG Activist, said "It (the case against Lively), provides a check for those evangelicals who want to preach homophobia and lets them know that it is no longer acceptable."
41. Horatio G. Mihet said, "The notion that Africans cannot think for themselves and independently enact their own public policies on homosexuality is both racist and offensive. The sovereign people of Uganda, and their duly elected parliament, are responsible for Uganda's laws and policies."
42. Uganda's court overturned the law in August 2014 on a technicality.
43. Hakim Semeebwr goes by the name "Bad Black."
44. The Prohibition of Promotion of Unnatural Sexual Practices Act is the name of the bill that took over from the Anti-Homosexuality Act.
45. "Promotion" means publishing materials in support of Uganda's LGBT community or providing health care to LGBT citizens.
46. Simon Lokodo, Uganda's Minister for Ethics and Integrity, said, "If you are homosexual, it is unfortunate."
47. Simon Lokodo said, "But to go out on the streets of Kampala and say, 'I am gay,' is the same as saying, 'I am a thief or a murderer.' It's like handing yourself to the police for arrest."
48. Kill-The-Gays Bill was the Anti-Homosexuality Act dubbed by the popular press.
49. Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto said, there was "no room for gays" in the country (of Kenya).
50. Gambian President Yahya Jammeh threatened to slit the throats of gay men the same week that Kenya's Deputy President addressed a church congregation in May.
51. Lawyer Ladislaus Kiiza Rwakafuuzi feels attitudes towards gays will eventually change, both in Uganda and in Africa.
52. Lawyer Ladislaus Kiiza Rwakafuuzi said, "the more of these laws they bring, the more they are watering down the fear of homosexuality."
53. Hakim Semeebwr career as a male television presenter was cut short when one of the tabloids exposed her gender identity in December.
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