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Kevin Baxter

Proposed anti-gay law in Uganda leaves people 'almost in a panic mode'

KAMPALA, Uganda — He was in high school when he realized he was gay.

His parents, he says, have long wondered, and, lately, he's been thinking about how to tell them. "I believe they would receive that information well," the customer service representative said with a smile. But that may not happen now, because of legislation approved last month by Uganda's parliament.

The 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed on a 387-2 vote, would impose some of the world's strictest anti-gay measures — with punishments that include the death penalty — if it is signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni.

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