Revealed: how a US far-right group is influencing anti-gay policies in Africa

US anti-pornography campaigning group has advised, promoted and endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ activists and politicians in Uganda

A long-standing US anti-pornography campaigning group has advised, promoted and endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ activists and politicians in Uganda, including a governing party member who endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ laws by saying gays should be castrated", and a virulently homophobic founder of a militaristic" Christian boys camp.

The revelations about Washington DC-based National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) and its spin-offs and affiliates - based on documents, audio and video recordings and open-source materials - raise questions about its recent disavowals of its history of anti-LGBTQ+ positions, and its role in Uganda's passage last year of laws on homosexuality which are among the most punitive and restrictive in the world.