My article on this past week’s hearing about Uganda’s proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill, “Stories of Uganda,” is up at Metro Weekly:
Saying that ”the bill has increased fear among all of us — especially sexual minorities — and among everyone who believes in respect for diversity in Uganda,” Julius Kaggwa told the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the first-hand fear that Uganda’s proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill was causing.
Kaggwa, a Ugandan member of the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law, testified at a hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 21 about the proposed bill and the need for the bill to be rejected.
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Chris Geidner is the award-winning senior political editor at D.C.'s Metro Weekly and has written for The Atlantic Online, The American Prospect, Advocate.com, Salon and other publications, as well as at his blog, Law Dork. In 2011, he received the Excellence in News Writing Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his coverage of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal. Prior to moving to D.C. in 2009, he served as an attorney on the senior staff at the Ohio Attorney General's Office and had earlier worked for a leading Columbus law firm. An extended biography can be found