South Africans took to the streets of Pretoria and Cape Town on Friday to protest a Ugandan law passed last week that makes it a crime to be openly gay.
Protesters, chanting and waving flags, asked Ugandan Prasident Yoweri Museveni not to sign it.
Although Uganda is among more than 30 African countries that already ban same-sex relationships, the new law will be the first to ban mere identification of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or homosexual people, according to the Human Rights Group Human Rights Watch.
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“World leaders should put pressure on Museveni to not sign the bill because it’s not only a Ugandan issue, it is an African continent issue,” said Papa De DeLovie Kwagala, a Ugandan LGBTQ rights activist and photographer among about 100 people protesting outside the United Nations Information Centre in Pretoria.
“Queer people don’t owe anyone anything, but we also deserve to live just like everyone else. You can’t strip all our rights. This is a world emergency.”
