{"id":40491,"date":"2014-06-23T10:01:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T17:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=40491"},"modified":"2014-06-23T10:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T17:01:11","slug":"whats-behind-african-persecution-of-lgbt-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/06\/23\/whats-behind-african-persecution-of-lgbt-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Behind African Persecution of LGBT Communities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140623Uprising\/2014_06_23_kenya_lgbt.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Ken (alias) <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140623Uprising\/2014_06_23_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/lgbt_africa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The US government last Thursday announced that it has cut aid to Uganda and canceled a military exercise in response to harsh laws outlawing homosexuality. Earlier this year, Uganda&#8217;s President Yoweri Museveni signed a law that imposed a life sentence for what is called &#8220;aggravated homosexuality.&#8221; Uganda has also banned lesbianism. <\/p>\n<p>The US&#8217;s retaliatory actions include canceling visas for Ugandan officials implicated in human rights abuses. The actions are surprising in the context of the US&#8217;s alliance with Uganda against the militant group, Al-Shabab in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile nations like Nigeria, Rwanda and Kenya are also struggling with similar issues. Some here in the US contend that Christian right-wing groups from the US have deeply influenced the passage of anti-homosexuality laws as part of their relief work. The documentary, God Loves Uganda, which premiered at last year&#8217;s Sundance Festival also makes the case that the American evangelical groups are to blame. <\/p>\n<p>Homosexuality is currently illegal in 37 out of 47 African countries. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Ken, an LGBT rights activist from Kenya, currently on a US trip sponsored by the American Jewish World Service<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajws.org\">www.ajws.org<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government last Thursday announced that it has cut aid to Uganda and canceled a military exercise in response to harsh laws outlawing homosexuality. Earlier this year, Uganda&#8217;s President Yoweri Museveni signed a law that imposed a life sentence for what is called &#8220;aggravated homosexuality.&#8221; Uganda has also banned lesbianism. The US&#8217;s retaliatory actions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40495,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40491\/revisions\/40495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}