Opinion: The Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), 2023 May Have Exonerated Uganda The Dust Has Not Settled, What Remains Is a Paradox of Bare Virtues
Bare virtue can't make nations live. Mindfulness makes nations thrive. The AHA is a detrimental capital to the overall public health principles rooted in calling for aspirations whose fabric and backdrop is mindfulness. Fast forward and subsequent to the AHA in Uganda, there are assumptions that have come about: a culture of stigma, intrusiveness and discrimination has churned out a guilt by association context. Men hugging in greeting will be suspect and so will women hugging; men sharing the same room and hotel bed will be suspect and so will women; innocent acts such as play-weddings among children of same-sex will be punished. Youths with sagging pants will be the pariah of society. Tomboys or boys who throw like girls stand warned. Rainbow symbolism of any kind be it in dress, dance, drama, flag or Rasta-culture, will trigger investigations into aiding, abetting, recruiting and sponsoring homosexual acts in Uganda. All this is circumstantial fodder that will feed into the ...