© 2024 All Rights reserved WUSF
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Ugandan activist challenges country's draconian new anti-LGBTQ law

Activists hold placards during their picket against Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill. (Themba Hadebe/AP)
Activists hold placards during their picket against Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill. (Themba Hadebe/AP)

Here & Now host Deepa Fernandes speaks with Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, a founding mother of the LGBTQ rights movement in Uganda, about her challenge to Uganda’s new law that calls for the death penalty for some gay people.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

Tags
You Count on Us, We Count on You: Donate to WUSF to support free, accessible journalism for yourself and the community.