Ugandan Gay Activist Slain
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An outspoken Ugandan gay rights campaigner, whose photo was published by a homophobic newspaper next to the headline "Hang Them," has been killed after receiving numerous death threats.
David Kato, an activist with Sexual Minorities Uganda, was attacked at his home outside the capital Kampala on Wednesday afternoon. Gerald Sentongo, an administrator with the gay rights organization, told
AOL News that neighbors discovered Kato lying on the floor, with serious injuries to his head. Police believe he had been struck repeatedly with a hammer.
Kato's activism made him a natural target for homophobes and bigots. But in October, he started to receive an increasing number of death threats after the Ugandan tabloid Rolling Stone (not associated with the U.S. magazine of the same name) included his name and photo in a front-page piece calling for the execution of the country's "Top Homos." In a follow-up article, the paper's editor, Giles Muhame, declared that "heartless homosexuals" were "seriously recruiting and brainwashing unsuspecting kids into gay circles." That argument echoes claims made by the visiting U.S. evangelicals, who gave lessons in how parents can "recruit proof" their children against supposed gay indoctrination.
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:pop: It's bad enough we have to battle Evangelical preaching and bigotry here in the States, but to see that their meddling on foreign soil leads to such acts of violence is disgusting, an abomination, and morally reprehensible.
