{"id":1959,"date":"2013-12-20T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2025-02-04T12:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:51:19","slug":"the-passing-of-the-anti-homosexuality-bill-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/the-passing-of-the-anti-homosexuality-bill-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"20 December 2013 \u2014 The Passing of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2014 into Law, Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1959\" class=\"elementor elementor-1959\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-020d15d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"020d15d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-18b5f6b\" data-id=\"18b5f6b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-82a28a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"82a28a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Ugandan parliament<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2014\/02\/24\/world\/africa\/uganda-anti-gay-bill\">\u00a0passed the\u00a0<em>Anti-Homosexuality Bill<\/em><\/a> into law on as the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014 (previously called the &#8220;Kill the Gays bill&#8221; on 20 December 2013. The Ugandan President signed his assent to the <em>Anti-Homosexuality Act<\/em> on 24 February 2014. The Act criminalised any sexual acts and relations between people of the same sex. The maximum sentence for such offences would be the death penalty or life imprisonment. In the few years leading to the signing of the Bill into law, although the language used in the Bill refers to \u201cgays\u201d and \u201chomosexuals\u201d, the prospect and the eventual implementation of the Bill also impacted trans and intersex people. The Bill was first<a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/anti-homosexuality-bill-draft-introduced\/\"> introduced to Parliament in 2009.<\/a><\/p><p>On 1 August 2014, the Bill was <a href=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/constitutional-court-dismisses-the-anti-homosexuality-bill-uganda\/\">ruled as invalid by the Constitutional Court of Uganda<\/a>, on procedural grounds.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ugandan parliament\u00a0passed the\u00a0Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law on as the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014 (previously called the &#8220;Kill the Gays bill&#8221; on 20 December 2013. The Ugandan President signed his assent to the Anti-Homosexuality Act on 24 February 2014. The Act criminalised any sexual acts and relations between people of the same sex. 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