Understanding that hate cannot dominate the Uganda Gay conversation

 Conversations with Ugandans about Criminalization of Gays Can Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill start a new conversation? By Melanie Nathan, January 21, 2013. I have been writing about Uganda since 2009, after the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.  In all these years I have witnessed a conversation that has seemed only capable of extreme divisiveness.  Discussions about … More Understanding that hate cannot dominate the Uganda Gay conversation

Heroic Ugandan Activist Makes Pastor Martin Ssempa Look like the Devil in TV Debate

Ssempa’s pornographic rhetoric showed the fire of a very sick and depraved soul. By Melanie Nathan, December 17, 2012. Today one of the bravest LGBTI Ugandan activists I know, Pepe, appeared on a live debate on Ugandan TV about homosexuality against the foul mouthed gay hater Pastor Martin Ssempa.  One wonders why Pepe would knowingly … More Heroic Ugandan Activist Makes Pastor Martin Ssempa Look like the Devil in TV Debate