{"id":1373,"date":"2011-11-11T07:15:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T07:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/11\/us-uganda-award-honours-courageous-gay-rights\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:30:03","slug":"us-uganda-award-honours-courageous-gay-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/11\/us-uganda-award-honours-courageous-gay-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-UGANDA: Award Honours Courageous Gay Rights Activist – IPS ipsnews.net"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Frank Mugisha was just a young teenager in Uganda when he came out as gay. He faced bullying and threats, but he says the stories of lesbian, gay, and transgender friends he later met were much worse – some were kicked out of their homes by their families, subjected to sexual violence to “make them straight”, or arrested.
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Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties Frank Mugisha was just a young teenager in Uganda when he came out as gay. 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