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While still at university in 2004, he founded
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in 2014, Mugisha argued that homophobia and the hatred behind the Anti-Homosexuality Bill were from western influences: "I am a gay man. I am also
Ugandan. There is nothing un-African about me. Uganda is where I was born, grew up and call my home. It is also a country in which I have become little
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more than an unapprehended criminal because of whom I love. I want my fellow
Ugandans to understand that homosexuality is not a western import and our friends in the developed world to recognise that the current trend of homophobia is."
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ruled that the plaintiffs were on solid ground under international and federal law in rejecting a jurisdictional challenge to the suit; he also ruled that First
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