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Uganda’s Museveni says being LGBTQ should not be criminalised

Uganda's proposed bill, which was passed in March, has attracted condemnation from LGBTQ people, Western governments and rights groups [File: Esa Alexander/Reuters]

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has asked legislators to make clear in proposed anti-homosexuality law that it is not criminal to merely identify as gay, as part of an attempt to tone down a bill that has drawn international condemnation.

Last month, legislators in the East African country overwhelmingly passed the proposed legislation, potentially one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, and sent it to the president for approval.

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