There is nothing un-African about being gay. Museveni’s bigotry will cost lives | Linda Mafu

As an African Aids activist and proud mother, I'll fight Uganda's homophobic bill, which denies my gay son's right to exist

A toxic wave of homophobia is surging across east Africa. It is crashing down in Uganda, where members of parliament recently passed a bill that makes being gay a crime punishable by death and not reporting homosexuality a criminal offence. The most common refrain echoed by the anti-gay movement is that homosexuality is un-African".

That belief is totally unfounded and ahistorical. As an African mother who has raised a gay child, it breaks my heart to hear such arguments. I know that my son and thousands of other children across Africa are both gay and fully, proudly African.