My schedule for the day: I get up at 5.45am, have a shower, wake up my sleepy partner, get dressed, feed the cat, pack lunches, go to work for 9 hours, finish work, go to gym or taekwondo, come home make dinner, spend time with my partner, watch t.v. and go to bed! I pay my taxes, I contribute to the economy, and I give back to my community.
The only difference is that I am a lesbian. I love a woman. I live with a woman. I am married to a woman. I make love to a woman.
In Uganda I would face life imprisonment if not death.
What is wrong with the state of the world? Has the world gone mad? Has the world forgotten about Hitler, Sadam Hussein, Idi Amin?
Have the people of South Africa forgotten about Apartheid?
Correctional rape of lesbians is rife in our country and nothing is being done about it! The police laugh at the women who report it. Is this what human rights is about.
David Bahiti is a Ugandan Minister of Parliment who has proposed a "Kill the Homosexuals and Lesbians and save our children" bill.
Yesterday a BBC World Debate and Protest was held at the Urban Studios in Johannesburg South Africa.
"Is homosexuality un-african?"
This monster is a threat not only to the Gay community in Uganda but to the rest of Africa.
He proclaims that the homosexuals are going into Ugandan schools and trying to recruit kids to be gay! and he has proof! proof that he has never published.
What was published was a list of known gay activists and all their personal details, this lead to the death of David Kato, who was killed outside his house by a hammer to the head.
Here I was sitting in an audience of people from all different cultures and back grounds, it was so scary to see how so many of the straight african men agree with this stupid, ignorant man who cannot tell the difference between human trafficking, peodaphilia and Homosexuality. There is no corollation between them!
Can they not see that this is promoting hatred, intollerence and violence against gay/lesbian people and its going against all of which our beloved Madiba tried so hard to eradicate.
Bahiti said he was a Christian and it was Gods law to punish all the gays by death.
What bible does he read? Chritianity, Judiasm and Islam promote compassion and love, its only the fundamentatlists who promote the opposite.
Speaking to friends after the show, white people in South Africa are very complacement. I was actually told by a friend of mine that this situation doesnt concern her, Politics is not "her thing".
Yes it is, if this bill passes in the Ugandan Government what stops this from spreading to the rest of Africa, South Africa included!?
Is the world going to sit back and watch just as they did during the Holocaust?
I fear for my Gay and Lesbian "family" in Africa.
Dont stop fighting! We all deserve to be treated with respect and dignity!
To Bahiti, you are a bastard, you are the same as Hitler, you are a vicious monster and do not deserve to call yourself a human being, lets hope the world recognises that too!
You have blood on your hands!
Please watch the interviews with Rachel Maddow.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/09/rachel-maddow-bahati-uganda-gays_n_794271.html
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life. as humans we are threatned every day by myriad things. as queers, we are threatned by ignorance and religion, surely the most idiotic of all excuses. show me a knife when you rob me, don't show your stupidity when you hate me because of who i sleep with. it's beneath me, and you.
more than the in your face aggression, it's the silence by communities that is the most dangerous
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