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Reuters
Politics

LGBTQ Ugandans live in fear as new law looms

Jerome Kendricks Okiror, Quin Karala, Ashley Karungi, Eunice Maltego, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTQ) community pose for a photograph Joan Amek (C), an LGBTQ rights activist and executive director of Rella Women's Empowerment Program, in Kulambiro suburb of Kampala, Uganda April 4, 2023. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa

At a shelter for lesbian women in Uganda's capital Kampala, gone are the days when the residents, having fled abuse and stigma at home, could breathe easy and be themselves.

That came to an end a month ago when parliament passed some of the world's strictest anti-LGBTQ legislation, which would criminalise the "promotion" of homosexuality and impose the death penalty for certain crimes involving gay sex.

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