Uganda Passes Sweeping New Antigay Legislation

Uganda’s parliament on Tuesday passed sweeping new antigay legislation that allows death sentences for HIV-positive people engaging in repeated sexual intercourse with someone of the same gender and life imprisonment for same-sex relations.

The bill, which now goes to President Yoweri Museveni for his signature, also foresees prison terms of up to 20 years for anyone identifying as gay, lesbian, transgender or nonbinary and criminalizes actions such as touching another person “with the intention of committing the act of homosexuality.”