LGBT history in Uganda

Homosexuality in Uganda was criminalized in 1902.^[1] In February 2014, president Yoweri Museveni signed a new law, the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014, which provided for tougher penalties for gay people including criminalizing people who did not report them.^[2] The new law also covered lesbians for the first time.^[2] However, on 1 August 2014, the Constitutional Court of Uganda ruled the new law invalid.^[3][4][5]

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