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Ugandan Miku
I have multiple ethnicities but I can't be bothered to draw multiple Miku's and since Italian Miku has already been done a bunch heres a Ugandan Miku!!
She just dropped her lunch (based on a true story 😔)
Hello,
I’m really sorry to reach out like this and hope I’m sorry if im bothering you. I’m a queer refugee from Uganda, now in Gorom Refugee Camp of South Sudan, where I’ve been in exile for nearly five years due to a life-threatening situation related to my sexual orientation. I represent over 300 LGBTQ+ individuals who are in urgent need of support. If you’re able, any small donation would greatly aid our survival. If not, sharing this message might help us reach someone who can. Your support could make a significant difference in our lives.
https://gofund.me/4d80b32c
Thank you so much for considering.
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Hidden Populations and Ugandan Legislation
If you haven't seen the associated video, you can check it out here.
Hidden Populations and Ugandan Legislation Adam Locke
The anti-homosexuality bill repeatedly proposed by David Bahati in Uganda has highlighted the questions of homosexual integration and repression in Africa, however the implications of such a bill have far reaching consequences for homosexual men and women beyond the penalties that the law proposes. More damaging to society at large, the law will present a public health threat to the greater heterosexual community.
To begin with, the institutionalization of homosexual repression does not stamp out homosexuality. In his assessment of American gay clinic attendees, Dr. Davey Smith observes that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell legislation did not discourage homosexuals from serving in the military, but it did lead them to mistrust their physicians and seek alternative care in order to maintain their lifestyles (Smith, 2008). If doctor-patient confidentiality were compromised, as the bill proposes and as was the case for DADT service members, there would be no such alternative for gay and bisexual people to use regarding their sexual health. The medical practices of the nation being undermined is the first aspect of the public health risk and the construction of a hidden population can be seen most clearly here.
Driving the homosexual practicing community underground has other health implications. In a study of high-risk sexual practices of men who have sex with men, Gorbach et al. found that the options that this bill would deny- long term relationships, committed public lives and understandings of personal responsibility- are key factors governing disclosure of HIV status to prospective sexual partners (Gorbach et al., 2004). For a disease that has a stigma and a taboo attached to it already, further stigmatization and taboo among high-risk groups will be harmful to treatment and management. This is exacerbated by Ugandans reporting increased numbers of casual sex partners (Kamya et al. 1997, Wabwire-Mangen et al. 2009). The low HIV infection rates that Uganda now enjoys will be put at risk. Moreover, by creating a hidden population unable to define its sexual health profile, the medical establishment will be rendered impotent to address the needs of practicing homosexuals, instead treating them as anomalously ill heterosexuals.
The matter of HIV infection increase has a somewhat more insidious dimension in the case of men who have sex with men being cut off from the option to self-identify as gay and live according lifestyles. In a study of African American men newly infected with HIV, Williams et al. found that they were influenced to behave heterosexually at large and engage in risky casual sex activities with anonymous male partners (Williams et al., 2004). So-called “on the down-low” living represents a population with a different health care profile than what it reports to its medical establishment and a threat to heterosexual women. This is the result of the de-masculinization of the homosexual identity in an atmosphere of machismo. Such an atmosphere is routinely found in sub-Saharan Africa.
This phenomenon is not at all to be unexpected in a cultural setting in which masculine identity is important to the male psyche. The male is also under pressure to conform to heteronormative models. These things contribute to a lattice of social facts that create what I call a Hidden Population. Emile Durkheim described a social fact as “ways of acting, thinking, feeling external to the individual, and endowed with a power of coercion, by reason of which they control him” (Durkheim, 1895, 74). The imposition of heteronormativity, the macho male identity and the cultural and institutional repression of the gay and homosexual identity contribute to the behavior of the individual being constrained in such a way that participation in a non-repressed gay lifestyle is impossible, the social facts create a lattice of encompassing repression that ensures heteronormative behavior, but does not evidently stamp out homosexual practice (Willaims, 2004; Smith, 2008). This has created the phenomenon of African American men living “on the low down,” they are practicing bisexuals who identify as straight, and so their health needs are addressed as though they are straight although they actually fall into a completely different risk category.
If the Ugandan legislation was to be enacted, the entire homosexual practicing population would, by absolute necessity due to penalization, become a hidden population. Men who have sex with men, in response to social facts, would be constrained to practice sex with women. The sex partners involved would be incorrectly assessed by health providers. Stripped of the options of doctor-patient confidentiality they would be classified straight people despite the relatively high risk categories to which they actually belong. The hidden population is a misrepresented population that cannot be accounted for by the state or by NGOs whose aim is to manage HIV in a realistic fashion.
The hidden population presents other challenges as well. The hidden population has no voice because by default it is a group of people living incognito. The Ugandan law would not only illegalize homosexual activity, but also homosexual advocacy disregarding the rights of free expression and the need for healthy discussion in the public discourse (Kaduuli 2011). A population that cannot argue for its rights in a democratic society has no rights at all. The insidious part of this is that the law makes no protective measures, so that the demonization of the homosexual community would be an ongoing issue. The legal legitimization of discrimination against homosexuals will contribute to the view that homosexuals are people without rights, and the inability to advocate on one’s own behalf would leave the local gay community completely vulnerable to the repression and violence that such an atmosphere would precipitate.
To leave the abstract for a moment and throw the kinds of threats that the gay community in Uganda faces into sharp relief, I will turn to the lesbian population of Uganda and Africa at large, particularly in South Africa, where the political discourse, being more progressive, allows the population to speak up for itself and argue for its rights. In South Africa, there is an ongoing epidemic of so-called “corrective rape” (De Silvo, 2011). Corrective rape is the act of forcible sexual entry of a lesbian with the aim of rendering her straight. Indeed, many instances of corrective rape are in fact gang-rape incidents involving multiple heterosexual males. In South Africa, where same-sex marriage is legal, there is ample documentation regarding this practice, but in a Uganda where one dare not report that they are gay for fear of imprisonment, what hope could there be for the lesbian victim of corrective rape to seek justice against her aggressors? The idea of a gay hate crime is in fact antithetical to a society that does not recognize homosexuality as a protected identity, or at the very least as a protected choice. The institutionalization of such attitudes of homosexual inferiority and the idea of sexuality as a choice that can be flipped back and forth at will- or even with significant effort- suggests that corrective rape may in fact be a practice that would yield results that the anti-gay agenda would find desirable. By extension, the anti-homosexuality bill supports corrective rape by creating a hidden population of victims unwilling to come forth in fear of persecution by the state.
The bill has a perhaps more practical implication for the Ugandan public. The recent support of gay rights by Barack Obama highlights the growing support for homosexuals in the West. The Ugandan president’s assertion that Ugandan aid money should not be tied to whether or not the Ugandan government represses its gays highlights the concern in the country that mistreatment of the homosexual population will lead to international stigmatization (towerload.com, 2011). The progressivism in the West may indeed lead to a reduction in the aid that Uganda receives. If such a law was enacted, the foreign aid options made available to Ugandans may indeed see significant cuts, and people of conscience may opt to hold Ugandans responsible for their draconian attitudes by withholding other kinds of assistance. Museveni’s comments work both ways: if indeed harming the Ugandans harms the gays, then indeed harming the gays can harm the Ugandans if it proves adequately unpopular abroad.
Finally, the bill seeks to end the freedom of expression for those people who would undertake gay activism. While the majority of such a crowd is in fact homosexual, more and more numerous today are the ranks of the gay-friendly allies. By seeking to end the discussion, to take away the right to have the argument about the place of homosexuality in Ugandan culture, the Bahati bill directly violates the freedom of expression of even straight Ugandans who do not share the views of the anti-gay agenda.
David Bahati’s bill is a dangerous bill in direct and indirect ways, it would curtail the freedom of expression, create a hidden population of rape victims, and produce a hidden population of homosexual practicing males without good understanding of how to manage their health risks that represent a public health concern for the heterosexual females with whom they are pressured to sleep while simultaneously taking away from the doctor the means with which to appropriately profile patients and best serve their needs. It is important that Ugandans reject such a measure because of the significant harm it will bring to homosexuals, public health, free speech and the international perception and support of Ugandans and Africans at large.
References
Gorbach, P M, Galea, J T, Amani, B, Shin, A, Celum, C, Kerndt, P, Golden, M R. ”Don’t ask, don’t tell: patterns of HIV disclosure among HIV positive men who have sex with men with recent STI practising high risk behaviour in Los Angeles and Seattle” in Sexually Transmitted Infections 2004 BMJ Publishing Group Limited
Smith, Davey M. “Active Duty Military Personnel Presenting for Care at a Gay Men’s Health Clinic” in Journal of Homosexuality. 2008 The Hasworth Press.
Kaduuli, Steven. “Homophobia and the governance of sexuality in Uganda: The concomitant implications for forced migration”. 2011 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1873663 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1873663.
Wabwire-Mangen, Fred; Odiit, Martin; Kirungi, Wilford; Kaweesa Kisitu, David; Okara Wanyama, James. “Uganda: HIV Modes of Transmission and Prevention Analysis”. 2009 Uganda AIDS Comission.
Kamya M, McFarland W, Hudes ES, Ssali A, Busuulwa R, Hearst N. “Condom use with casual partners by men in Kampala, Uganda” in AIDS. 1997 London : Gower Academic Journals
Williams JK, Wyatt GE, Resell J, Peterson J, Asuan-O’Brien A. “Psychosocial issues among gay- and non-gay identifying seropositive African American and Lationo MSM.” in Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. 2004 Educational Publishing Foundation. Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues.
Durkheim, Emile. “What is a Social Fact?” in Anthropological Theory, An Introductory History, Fourth Edition; R. Jon McGee and Richard Warms. 2008 McGraw-Hill.
2012[2011]. Ugandan President: Don’t Tie Our Aid Money to LGBT Rights. http://www.towleroad.com/2011/12/ugandan-president-dont-tie-our-aid-money-to-lgbt-rights.html
This needs to be shared, because I feel sorry for this in Uganda and other places that suffer this on a daily basis. But to think that America was close to this
What's happening in Uganda?
Basically during the elections, the losing party that was still in power had the winning opposite candidate arrested and charged under house arrest for election fraud. The called in the election early before the counting finished and shut down the internet bc I think ppl voted via online. The candidates chosen by the people won by a landslide but the losing party was using military force to try and stay in power
This Pride don’t forget your brothers and sisters fighting for their rights all over the world.
I can't donate so I'm spreading this as around so others may help
Yesterday, here on tumblr, someone reached out to me, seeking help. And now I am here seeking yours. I don't care about your opinions and views. The matter of the fact is that everyone deserves to be treated as human beings, and they deserve the rights of human beings as we all do.
Right now, we have a violation of the LGBTQ+ community in Uganda after its government passed one of the harshest anti-gay laws, which includes punishment by death.
Here are two Al Jazeera articles on this:
1. Displaced twice: Gay Ugandans on the run face upheaval in Kenya
2. Ugandas anti lgbtq law causing wave of rights abuses activists say
Yesterday, @annoyingpaintertragedy (please take a look at their blog) reached out to me regarding this. They mentioned that many of Ugandas lgbtq civilians were forced to flee Uganda to neighboring Kenya. But situations are just as bad in Kenya. They spoke of the Kakuma refugee camps where they now live along with many other refugees.
I myself am just now learning of this. But if you have any information or links of organizations that may help regarding this situation, please send them to me or add them to the reblogs.
Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act: ‘Null and Void’
In a victory activists were unsure they’d get, Uganda’s Constitutional Court overturned the country’s draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act today, declaring the anti-LGBT law “null and void” because of a parliamentary technicality in how it was passed.
The court determined that when members of Parliament passed the law in December 2013, Speaker Rebecca Kadaga had not established quorum — a required minimum number of members present to vote — effectively invalidating the law.
why did I draw him some of my drawings constitute war crimes lol. I'm so sorry Mrs Frizzle.
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