Help stop Uganda's dangerously homophobic new bill

Late last week, legislation was introduced in the Uganda parliament that expands criminal penalties for being gay.
 
The Anti-Homosexuality Law, Bill Number 18, in the Ugandan national parliament, has all the trappings of yet another gross violation of human rights structured on the premise that gays constitute some sort of threat to the general social welfare.
 
Under Uganda's current penal code, any member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community can be imprisoned for up to 14 years if they are convicted of carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature.  This new legislation would increase that sentence to life and, if one is convicted of aggravated homosexuality, carry a penalty of death.

 Advocates for Youth has signed on to two letters to President Museveni encouraging him to veto Bill No. 18, if it is passed and a letter to President Obama calling on him to put his weight behind pushing for Uganda to reject this legislation of hate. We hope that you will join us in this fight by sending a letter to President Obama calling on him to condemn the egregious violation of human rights that Bill No. 18 represents and urging him to call on President Museveni to veto the bill should it pass through the Ugandan parliament.

go to the Advocates for Youth website to Take Action today!