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Gay Republicans Commit Equality Suicide with Pride over Romney’s Ryan Pick

by Melanie Nathan on August 11, 2012 in POLITICAL VIEWS, LGBT, U.S.A., NEWS

Hate Speech as Ugandan Minister Onek Vows to Kill NGO’s that Help Gays

by Melanie Nathan on August 8, 2012 in Africa, LGBT, NEWS, Organizations, WORLD

Orgullo Gay Uganda Un Gran Éxito

by Melanie Nathan on August 8, 2012 in LGBT, NEWS, WORLD, Africa, EVENTS, Rally, Pride

Ugandan Gay Pride a Great Success

by Melanie Nathan on August 5, 2012 in Conferences, EVENTS, LGBT, NEWS, POLITICAL VIEWS, Pride, Rally, WORLD

U.S. Secretary Hillary Clinton Pays Tribute to Ugandan Gay Rights Defenders

by Melanie Nathan on August 4, 2012 in Africa, EVENTS, LGBT, NEWS, POLITICAL VIEWS, Pride, WORLD

Ugandan Police Raid Beach Pride Party Arrest LGBT Activists

by Melanie Nathan on August 4, 2012 in Africa, EVENTS, LGBT, NEWS, Pride, Rally, WORLD

AIDS 2012 Ignites Momentum for the Beginning of the End of the AIDS Epidemic

by Melanie Nathan on July 27, 2012 in AIDS/HIV, Conferences, EVENTS, HEALTH, NEWS, WORLD

AIDS 2012 to Discuss HIV and World Travel Bans

by Melanie Nathan on July 21, 2012 in Africa, AIDS/HIV, Australia, Canada, Conferences, Europe, EVENTS, HEALTH, Ireland, Latin America, Middle East, NEWS, Russia, TOURISM, United Kingdom, WORLD

Congresswoman Requests Secretary Clinton to Deny US Entry to Anti-GAY Ugandan Giles Muhame

by Melanie Nathan on July 11, 2012 in Africa, CRIME, LGBT, NEWS, POLITICAL VIEWS, U.S.A., WORLD

AIDS 2012 Announces IAS Research Prizes

by Melanie Nathan on July 11, 2012 in AIDS/HIV, Conferences, EVENTS, NEWS, WORLD

Ugandan Activists Fight in Court Against Minister Lokodo’s Anti-Gay Persecution

by Melanie Nathan on July 8, 2012 in Africa, Conferences, EVENTS, NEWS, WORLD

Ugandan Government Spies on GAYS and Steals Documents in Ongoing Persecution

by Melanie Nathan on June 26, 2012 in Africa, Conferences, CRIME, EVENTS, LGBT, NEWS, Organizations, WORLD

Hang The Gays Monster Giles Muhame Heading to the US Amidst Extortion EXPOSÉ

by Melanie Nathan on June 26, 2012 in Africa, CRIME, LGBT, NEWS, WORLD

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South African Gay Flag at San Francisco Pride 2012

by Melanie Nathan on June 24, 2012 in Africa, CALIFORNIA, EVENTS, NEWS, Pride, WORLD

A Million Cheers for Ugandan Bishop Christopher Senyonjo at San Francisco Pride 2012

by Melanie Nathan on June 24, 2012 in Africa, CALIFORNIA, EVENTS, LGBT, NEWS, Organizations, Pride, WORLD

Ugandan Lesbian to be Deported Tonight

by Melanie Nathan on June 22, 2012 in Europe, LGBT, NEWS, United Kingdom, WORLD

The Castro Gives ‘Call Me Kuchu’ Historic Standing Ovation

by Melanie Nathan on June 20, 2012 in Africa, CULTURE, Entertainment, EVENTS, LGBT, NEWS, WORLD

Ugandan Minister Launches Crusade Against Human Rights and LGBT NGO’s

by Melanie Nathan on June 20, 2012 in Africa, Conferences, LGBT, MEDIA, NEWS, POLITICAL VIEWS, RELIGION, WORLD

Uganda Gay Activsts Arrested in Unlawful Police Raid at Private Hotel Meeting

by Melanie Nathan on June 18, 2012 in Africa, Conferences, EVENTS, NEWS, VIDEO, WORLD

World Premiere A MISSIONARY POSITION by Ugandan American Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine

by Melanie Nathan on June 12, 2012 in Africa, Entertainment, EVENTS, LGBT, NEWS, WORLD

San Francisco Pride Announces Ugandan Bishop Christopher Senyonjo as Global Grand Marshal

by Melanie Nathan on June 9, 2012 in Africa, EVENTS, LGBT, Pride, RELIGION, VIDEO, WORLD

Ugandan Church Leaders Call for Quick Passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill

by Melanie Nathan on June 4, 2012 in Africa, Conferences, EVENTS, LGBT, NEWS, RELIGION, WORLD

Freedom to Roam Uganda on Martyrs Day

by Melanie Nathan on June 3, 2012 in Africa, LGBT, NEWS, Organizations, WORLD

United Kingdom Petitioned not to deport lesbian Linda Nakibbuka to Anti Gay Uganda

by Melanie Nathan on June 2, 2012 in Africa, LGBT, NEWS, United Kingdom, WORLD

Sweden Threatens to Deport Persecuted Lesbian back to Uganda

by Melanie Nathan on May 14, 2012 in Europe, LGBT, NEWS, POLITICAL VIEWS, WORLD

By Melanie Nathan, April 19, 2012. The Ugandan President Museveni was interviewed by Christiane Amanpour where  he down played the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, otherwise known as the ‘Kill the Gays Bill,’ by asserting it applies to exhibitionism only. Whether the man is ill informed or  an out and out liar, he was unprepared for a persistent [...]

Calling for a more calculated course to curb Africa’s anti-gay human rights path while  admonishments seem to cause backlash By Melanie Nathan, April 07, 2012 Educated people know that being gay is not a lifestyle it is simply a state of being. It is a concomitant of one’s makeup, a birth right,  if you will. [...]

Perhaps Prime Minster Mbabazi should be fair and at the same time alert such celebrities, that if they just happen to be gay, homosexual, lesbian, bisexual and/or transgender, setting foot on Ugandan soil may render them guilty of a crime and subject to death penalty or life in prison; that is if the current Kill the Gays Bill passes into law. Kony 2012 no promo please Amama

Denying dialogue is a means to foster hate … By Melanie Nathan, 03/14/2012 In the midst of a visit to the West Coast by a delegation of Israeli LGBT leaders, is a small group of  US anti-Israel proponents determined to silence the visitors. Leading this effort to silence the equality activists from Israel is  an [...]

A Ugandan gay rights group filed suit against notorious American evangelist, Scott Lively, in federal court in Massachusetts on Wednesday, accusing him of violating international law by inciting the persecution of homosexuals in Uganda. According to an Article by Laurie Goodstein in the New York Times

Now while we abroad are screaming foul on behalf of the local LGBTI coalitions and community, we may well be playing into Bahati’s hands on a local level, as he has so much internal support we may actually be serving to enhance the unity. Yet I do believe still this could backfire as the more intelligent and less ambitious start to realize that this is nothing but the political aspirations of one man using an entire community to meet his needs. Maybe just maybe some local brave hero will expose him! Someone who is not afraid to display intellect and speak truth.

Tomorrow the UN debates Human Rights for LGBT people By Melanie Nathan, 03/06/2012, For us in the USA, “gay rights” is associated with the debate over equality and is about whether LGBTI people should be allowed to marry, adopt, serve in the military, be subject to baseless firing from jobs. Yet others in the World [...]

SOUTH AFRICA KEYNOTE SPEECH – CAPE TOWN PRIDE 2011 MELANIE NATHAN 03/02/2011 Greetings, comrades, lesbians, gays, queers, LGBTQI people, allies, and everyone in between. It is a great honor for me to be here tonight -thanks to my fellow bloggers, Marriage Equality USA MEUSA, and my family and friends back home in the US for [...]

International lesbian tourist, may I suggest, if you are traveling to Cameroon, and staying at the Hilton Yaounde Hotel, or any other hotel for that matter, beware! Do not ask for a King Size bed. You may get arrested on suspicion of being a lesbian

Speech at UN Human Rights Council in Geneva By Melanie Nathan, 02/29/2012 The Human Rights Council in Geneva  has heard it from Kamalesh Sharma, the Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations who  reiterated this week that homophobia is incompatible with Commonwealth values. This sends a signal from the top that persecution based on sexuality [...]

“You see, the mere mention of benefits for same-sex couples on a website, or the mere mention of inclusion of LGBT people in corporate diversity hiring policies, are tantamount to the “promotion” of homosexuality in Uganda, under the AHB!” Melanie Nathan, 02/27/2012, Last week I received a phone call from the folks at Change.org asking [...]

My Response to the Ugandan President’s London Interview as noted in Ugandan Daily Monitor. By Melanie Nathan, 02/26/2012 The President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni says Uganda “does not persecute gays, but resents promotion of gay activities.” According to the Uganda Monitor, this is the first time the President, who was in London for a one-day [...]

What would Madiba have said and done about the Anti-homosexuality Bills in Uganda and Liberia? Melanie Nathan , February 25, 2012 While Liberia and Uganda are forging their anti-homosexuality agendas, former South African President Nelson Mandela, 93, who has not been available for some time to advise on ANC policy, was rushed to hospital with [...]

By Melanie Nathan, February, 23, 2012 The Uganda Law Society (ULS) has warned that the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, if enacted into law in its current state, would institutionalize discrimination against those ‘who are, or thought to be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender’ and have noted that it would be contrary to human rights. The Bill [...]

Or stop being hypocrites by displaying diversity programs on your websites….  LGBT people who work for Barclays worldwide should be asking their employers to speak out against criminalization of homosexuality before it is too late!  This applies to all doing business in Africa! By Melanie Nathan, February 21, 2012, I first wrote this piece on [...]

First viewing of proposed text of bill. By Melanie Nathan,  2/21/2012 Expressed many times on my blog, is the fear that David Bahati’s Kill the Gays Bill, currently before the Ugandan Parliament, could well spread to other parts of Africa , as it is accompanied by the promotion of much anti-gay rhetoric and myth.  It [...]

Do Western Activists have a role? This Article explores that question only in part, intending to set up the discussion. By Melanie Nathan, Feb 19, 2012 It seems as if the Ugandan Minister Lokodo thinks he has the right to autocratically order arrests of gays and lesbians before the new  (anti-gay) law in Uganda that [...]

The minister has had the audacity to overtly act out one very reason the impending Anti-Homosexuality Act should not be passed in that country…. by Melanie Nathan, February 14, 2012 Ethics Minister Fr. Simon Lokodo, who recently said nobody would block the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, has today Tuesday blocked n LGBT conference on the shores of [...]

Stephen Tashobya, chair of the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of the Ugandan Parliament, declines to promise to return the bill to Parliament within the 45 day period required by Parliament rule and he declined to comment about any pressure from the Executive branch to stall the bill. Stephen Tashobya, chair of the Legal and Parliamentary [...]

“If you are Lesbian, when you come to Uganda to entice our young people to join you in the immoral vice of homosexuality, we shall arrest you….” Y. Bihande by Melanie Nathan, 02/10/2012 This week the Ugandan Parliament got one step closer to legalizing persecution in its country.  David Bahati, the MP from Nordwa province [...]

Ugandan  Parliament erupts in applause as Government pretends to distance itself from the kill the Gays Bill  by Melanie Nathan, February 09, 2012 We have been reporting for the past ten days about Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality bill of  2009 which has been reintroduced in its original form into the Ugandan 9th Parliament.   This Bill includes [...]

State Department Please take action now – LGBT World time for action now as the Anti-Homosexuality Bill is about to Pass the Ugandan Parliament; Is Bahati Booting Gays out of Uganda? No he would rather they languish in prison – he told me so! by Melanie Nathan, 02/08/2012 Today the Ugandan Parliament got one step [...]

Uganda Kill The Gays Bill is Being read in Parliament Today | Conversation with Bahati.

By Melanie Nathan, February 07, 2012, Further to my earlier report and now according to Warren Throckmorton Helen Kawesa, Uganda’s Parliamentary spokesperson informs  today that David Bahati’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill is on the agenda to be tabled for a first reading in today’s session of Parliament. Throckmorton’s post reads:- Kawesa said, “The bill will go through a [...]

The Anti-homosexuality Bill has become known as the Kill-The-Gays-Bill and has caused an international outcry. by Melanie Nathan, 02/04/2012 7:00 AM Uganda’s, Anti Homosexuality bill of  2009 is due for debate when parliament resumes business in Uganda next week, according to a source who made contact with me.  This Bill includes the death penalty for [...]

Editor’s Advocacy Note:   The Obama Administration has indicated via recent memo and speeches the strong support for International LGBT human rights. As an activist in this arena we implore upon the administration to not mince their words and to show action as well here on home turf!  That would include protecting asylum seekers such as [...]

US subtle warnings… diplomacy reigns supreme as US supports the African Union events this past month.. By Melanie Nathan, February 02, 2012 US Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns has concluded his week-long visit to Africa in Ethiopia, venue of the 18th African Union Summit, the US State Department said in a statement obtained by [...]

To include the 2008 Circumcision Plan The Ugandan government has launched a new HIV/AIDS prevention strategy and plan for the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV by 2015.  The Program  Manager at the AIDS Control Programme (ACP) Zainab Akol said under the plan, measures are to be adopted to include a more cost-effective [...]

Ugandan LGBTI activists are holding a day of remembrance and services for brother David Kato , the outspoken LGBTI activist who was brutally murdered last year. Kato known to be  the most vocal gay rights advocate in Uganda, a country where homophobia is so severe that Parliament is considering a bill to execute gay people.  [...]

Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has hit out at Ndorwa West MP David Bahati’s anti-gay Bill, telling a public audience in Kampala that what two consenting adults do in private “is really not the matter of law.” by Melanie Nathan Finally, a South African leader has spoken out publicly and forcefully against the Anti-Homosexuality [...]