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Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws

Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws

FromThe History Hour


Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws

FromThe History Hour

ratings:
Length:
50 minutes
Released:
May 25, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In 2009 Ugandan MPs tried to introduce new laws against homosexuality that would include life imprisonment and even the death penalty. We speak to Victor Mukasa about his story of fighting for LGBT rights in Uganda, first as a lesbian woman and then as a trans man. Also, the early days of the environmental organisation Greenpeace, walking the Great Wall of China and fighting acid attacks on women in Bangladesh.

(Photo: Ugandan LGBT Activist Victor Mukasa May 2019. BBC)
Released:
May 25, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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