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Ugandan Gay Rights Activist Slain After Being Named on 'Hit List'
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsAn outspoken Ugandan gay rights campaigner, whose photo was published by a homophobic newspaper next to the headline "Hang Them," has been killed after receiving numerous death threats. David Kato, an activist with Sexual Minorities Uganda, was attacked at his home outside the capital Kampala on Wednesday afternoon. Gerald Sentongo, an administrator with the gay rights organization, told AOL News that neighbors discovered Kato lying on the floor, with serious injuries to his head. Police believe he had been struck repeatedly with a hammer. AP David Kato, seen in this undated ...
Report: Anti-Semitic, Anti-Gay Saudi Textbooks Used in UK
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Nov. 22) -- Saudi Arabian textbooks filled with anti-Semitic and homophobic material are being used in British classrooms, according to a BBC documentary. The program, due to air tonight, found that around 5,000 British Muslim children were being taught that the "main goal" of the Jews is to "have control over the world and its resources," and that anyone found guilty of gay sex should be stoned or burned to death, or thrown off a cliff. Other textbooks explain how the hands and feet of thieves are chopped off, and their stumps cauterized to prevent them "bleeding to death." The ...
Georgia Preacher Leads Anti-Gay Crusade in Uganda
By Ioannis Gatsiounis - AOL NewsKAMPALA, Uganda (Nov. 21) -- A Georgia-based evangelical ministry is linking up with church leaders in Uganda and neighboring countries to discourage homosexuality in the African region. Carl Jenkins, founder and presiding bishop of Christ Central Christian Ministries Worldwide in Albany, Ga., argues that east Africa's economic potential is suffering and that a stronger morality needs to be instilled. "Overall, we're not seeing the moral change and economic change that Christ can give if you are obedient and dedicated to the word of God," Jenkins told AOL News. Jenkins is spending much of ...
Ark. School Board Member Under Fire for Anti-Gay Screed
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Oct. 28) -- A school board member in Arkansas is being widely condemned today after allegedly saying on Facebook that he hoped gays would kill themselves. Clint McCance, Midland School District vice president, wrote that he likes that gays "cant procreate" and enjoys "the fact that they often give each other aids and die," according to The Advocate, a newspaper that reports on gay issues. The screed apparently began as a response to an anti-bullying campaign that asked students to wear purple in remembrance of gay youths who committed suicide. In response, McCance appears to have issued a ...
Ugandan Tabloid Publishes 'Hit List' of Gay Men
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News
(Oct. 19) -- A Ugandan tabloid newspaper is making headlines itself today for publishing what appears to be a hit list targeting gay men in a notoriously homophobic country, The Associated Press is reporting. An Oct. 9 article in Uganda's "Rolling Stone" (which has no relation to the American magazine by the same name) carried the headline "100 Pictures of Uganda's Top Homos Leak" with a yellow banner that said "Hang Them." The men's photos, names and addresses were listed inside. AP The Oct. 9 edition of the Ugandan newspaper Rolling Stone reveals the identity of allegedly gay members of ...
Police: 7 Arrested in Brutal Anti-Gay Attacks in NYC
By Carl Franzen - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Oct. 8) -- Seven suspected members of a Bronx, N.Y., street gang have been arrested and charged with anti-gay hate crimes for sadistic sexual attacks on two 17-year-old boys, including one aspiring gang member, and a 30-year-old man, police say. The beatings -- which involved two episodes of sodomy, with a broom handle and bat, respectively -- were reportedly sparked after the suspects cornered the teen who wanted to join their gang (who they had already beat as a part of an initiation ritual) and tortured him further into revealing that he and the other teen had engaged in gay sex ...
Seth Walsh Dies After Suicide Attempt, Bullies Go Uncharged
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 29) -- No charges will be pressed against the children who bullied Seth Walsh, a 13-year-old Californian who died this week after injuries sustained in a suicide attempt, which was reportedly the result of cruel treatment over his perceived sexual orientation. "Several of the kids that we talked to broke down into tears," Jeff Kermode, Tehachapi, Calif., police chief, told NBC affiliate KGET. "They had never expected an outcome such as this." Walsh died on Monday after eight days on life support. He hanged himself from a tree in his backyard on Sept. 19. Walsh's school, Jacobsen ...
If Uganda Executes Gays, Will American Christians be Complicit?
By David Gibson - Politics DailyA bill currently before the Ugandan Parliament sounds like an absurdist scenario from some liberal nightmare about a theocratic state: Under the proposed law -- which appears to have strong public support -- criminal penalties on homosexual acts in the East African nation would be made much harsher, and include the death penalty. Killing homosexuals for having sex? Just as shocking, however, are the links between the proposal and American Christians who have at times been rousing cheerleaders for Uganda's draconian statutes. A key episode in the trail of evidence was an event in March 2009 ...
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