Approximately a year after the Ugandan MP David Bahati introduced a bill that would have imposed the

Approximately a year after the Ugandan MP David Bahati introduced a bill that would have imposed the death penalty for some homosexual acts and life imprisonment for others, the Ugandan local tabloid paper, Rolling Stone, (not affiliated with the American the one) published a list of names and addresses of Ugandans they believed to be homosexual. The egregious October 9th of 2010 Rolling Stone’s front story was also accompanied by a banner reading “Hang Them”. 

AFTERMATH:

• According to activists, the people on the list have been harassed “Some people could not even get out of the house, as they’ve been throwing stones,” said the director of LGBT group Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha.  
  
  
• After the Rolling Stone published another list with the headline “More homos faces exposed”, SMUG took the matter to the court. The High Court ruled that the paper had violated the privacy rights of Ugandans. The paper has since then ceased publication.
  
  
• One of the people on the list was, David Kato, one of the founding fathers of Ugandan LGBTQ right movement.. Kato was subsequently assaulted  in his home. With two strikes from a hammer to his head, Kato died on the way to the hospital the 26th of January, 2011. There is a disagreement between the police and human rights activists whether or not his death was a hate crime.
  
  
• Managing editor of the weekly Rolling Stone, Giles Muhame said in a statement that he felt “sorry for the family of Kato "but that he has “no regrets about the story. We were just exposing people who were doing wrong." 
  

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Picture: Rolling Stone Vol1 No. 05 October 9th, 2010.