They need to be arrested.”In September, I came across a video that was going viral on Twitter in Uganda . It seems that as the ex-gay movement lost its grip in the United States, it started to reach for relevance elsewhere. That same rhetoric drawing connections between homosexuality and pedophilia has remained largely unchanged from how evangelicals created panic around gay people in the early days of the anti-gay movement. Even though LGBTQ+ identities had existed in Africa since before colonialism, their existence was not always welcomed and tolerated. Abrahamic religions have exacerbated homophobia, and it might have become prevalent on the continent without U.S. evangelical backing.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 19, 2023 06:26 UTC