{"id":5320,"date":"2026-05-29T09:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/fighting-for-lgbt-rights-in-uganda-bbc-world-service-witness-history\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:44:32","slug":"fighting-for-lgbt-rights-in-uganda-bbc-world-service-witness-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/fighting-for-lgbt-rights-in-uganda-bbc-world-service-witness-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting for LGBT rights in Uganda &#8211; BBC World Service, Witness History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LXmosqvayeM?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In 2009 Ugandan MPs tried to introduce new laws against homosexuality that would include life imprisonment and even the death penalty. Homophobia was rife in the media with tabloid papers printing the names and addresses of gay men and lesbians.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to subscribe to our channel \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/bbc.in\/3VyyriM<\/p>\n<p>Many activists suffered intimidation and assault. The law was eventually overturned by the Constitutional Court in 2014 but homosexuality is still illegal in Uganda. <\/p>\n<p>Victor Mukasa shares his story of fighting for LGBT rights in Uganda, first as a lesbian woman and then as a trans man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nThis is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel.<br \/>\nIf you like what we do, you can also find us here:<br \/>\nInstagram \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nTwitter \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nFacebook \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/facebook.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nBBC World Service website \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldserviceradio<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching and subscribing!<br \/>\n#BBCWorldService #WorldService<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LXmosqvayeM\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009 Ugandan MPs tried to introduce new laws against homosexuality that would include life imprisonment and even the death penalty. Homophobia was rife in the media with tabloid papers printing the names and addresses of gay men and lesbians. Click here to subscribe to our channel \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/bbc.in\/3VyyriM Many activists suffered intimidation and assault. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150479,"featured_media":5321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[434,15,1361,816,10401,10402,10390,10389,10387,10396,10388,10397,328,1362,5942,10400,10406,10399,10403,10405,1363,9468,10392,10393,10391,10394,10395,3332,10404,10398,2033],"class_list":["post-5320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-africa","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-discovery","tag-gay-pride","tag-gay-pride-2021","tag-gay-rights","tag-homosexuality-in-uganda","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-lgbtq","tag-lgbtq-rights","tag-podcast","tag-podcasts","tag-pride","tag-pride-2021","tag-pride-day-2021","tag-pride-month","tag-pride-month-2021","tag-pride-parade-2021","tag-radio","tag-trans","tag-trans-men","tag-trans-women","tag-transgender","tag-transgender-men","tag-transgender-women","tag-uganda","tag-when-is-pride-month-2021","tag-witness","tag-witness-history","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}