RainbowUCT forms part of the “Coalition to End Discrimination” (CoED). Please join us this Friday, 12 February at 12:00 (RSVP on the Facebook event) as we speak out against the atrocious Ugandan "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" and against our government’s failure to take a firm stand against homophobia in Uganda.
If this bill passes in the Ugandan parliament, LGBTI people and their family and friends will live in fear of imprisonment and in fear of the death penalty. Some of the inhumane provisions of the Bill are that if a mother fails to report her son, or a teacher fails to report his student, that teacher or mother faces a prison sentence of up to 7 years. Under the bill, an HIV-positive person who has sexual relations with a person of the same sex would face the death penalty.
This Friday the 12th, we will hand a petition to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (at Parliament, 90 Plein Street) urging them to take a firm public stance against this bill. We will urge them to relay our humanity and our passion for equality to the parliament of Uganda.
Endorse the letter to Ugandan President Museveni to withdraw the Anti-Homosexuality Bill: http://bit.ly/6a0BV4
This is a joint protest, as Cape Town Pride will also be there, they also invite all those who are distressed and angered by the apparent appointment of the homophobic Jon Qwelane as South Africa's Ambassador to Uganda, to join us in a peaceful protest action.
