Uganda Newspaper Publishes Second List Of Purported Homosexuals; At Least Four Have Been Attacked From Previous List

For the second time, a newspaper in Uganda – Rolling Stone – has published the names, addresses, and alleged intimate details about the anatomy of those listed, as well as plea to readers to report them to the police, CNN reports. The first list published 100 of what the paper editor, Giles Muhame, deemed the country’s “top homos,” alongside their photos, addresses, and a banner that read “hang them.” The 22 year old Muhame, who has a relationship with Ugandan Member of Parliament David Bahati, the sponsor of the suddenly revived “Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009,” says he discourages readers from physically attacking the people named on the list (there are reports that at least four individuals appearing on the first list have been assaulted, but he insists that gays are going to schools, where they “recruit” children. He added that Bahati’s bill proposing severe penalties for acts of “aggravated homosexuality,” including death, will become law when Uganda begins drilling oil and becomes ultimately less dependent on foreign donors. According to the reports, Stosh Mugisha was one of those attacked after the initial list was published, Mugisha saying that a crowd gathered outside her house the night the paper appeared and that “People were throwing stones through the gate. They were shouting, ‘Homosexual, homosexual!’ I started getting scared.” She adds that her and her partner of a year were forced to flee the home the following morning, just escaping stoning, and that they are now in hiding. “They started bringing in these issues like, ‘How can you be born gay? How can you be born lesbian?’ They really don’t know that we have battled to stand and be born who we are.”