Queeattitude

• COVER UP OR THE TRUTH?

  Posted: January 28, 2011, 12:46 am by Naughty feeling

       Reuters Uganda have reported that according to the Uganda Police, David Kato's killing may not be a case of hate crime as earlier reported. "His homosexuality has not come up as an issue in the preliminary investigation," police spokeswoman, Judith Nabakooba, told Reuters. According to Reuters Uganda the police haven't considered the hate crime angle and are instead investigating a person who had been living with David prior to the attack.
  
     Case of conspiracy/cover-up or just the plain truth? You decide...

• FALLEN HERO

  Posted: January 27, 2011, 10:51 pm by Naughty feeling

        The brutal murder of David Kato, a Ugandan human rights activist is both saddening and shocking yet it serves as a wake up call to all. I send my condolences to his friends and family for their bereavement at this time.
   
         While this issue has been addressed many a time by a number of bloggers, I think it is time the cloak and dagger games came to a stop. An innocent life has been lost in a grotesque manner. This goes to show how deep-seated the hate for LGBTI persons has become. It is indeed a grave issue that if not addressed might end up justifying the bloodshed of innocent people all because someone holds a different idea on whom they (not you) choose to express their love towards. To kill a fellow human with such savage I think ends up contradicting the same doctrines the anti-gay crusaders purport to stick to. Shame on all of you.
  
  R.I.P. DAVID KATO

• ILGA RESPONDS TO DAVID KATO'S BRUTAL MURDER

  Posted: January 27, 2011, 10:34 pm by Naughty feeling

  ILGA CONDEMS DAVID KATO?S MURDER URGING UGANDA AUTHORITIES TO ENSURE SAFETY
  LGBTI COMMUNITY
  
  
  
  Brussels, January 26, 2011 -- ILGA the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
  Trans and Intersex association is appalled and shocked by the murder of gay
  rights activist David Kato in Uganda on Wednesday. Kato?s body was found by
  neighbors in his house in Kampala on Wednesday hacked on the head with a
  hammer. From Mexico-city ILGA?s co-secretary-general, Gloria Careaga issued
  a forceful demand to Uganda?s authorities, to stop the persecution and
  violence against LGBTI people and to thoroughly and promptly investigate
  ?this hideous crime?. ?We demand justice and respect. Our international work
  is based on the phrase ?Nobody is safe until everybody is safe?, Careaga
  stated.
  
  
  
  Kato?s murder comes only weeks after the Uganda Supreme Court told the local
  magazine ?Rolling Stones? to stop publishing names of prominent Ugandan
  alleged homosexuals and calling for them to be hanged. It now seems someone
  apparently took up the magazine?s call and David Kato, who was out already
  as gay man and LGBTI activist has become the first lethal victim of the
  magazine?s hate call. Careaga: ?First we need to mourn David and celebrate
  his life and legacy, while giving comfort and support to his family, friends
  and fellow-activists in Uganda and all over the world. But then we will have
  to ensure that his death proves that the wave of hate towards LGBTI people
  in Africa and particularly in Uganda must be stopped and turned around". She
  quoted a statement of Kato in an interview by the New Internationalist
  Magazine last year: ?I can?t run away and leave the people I am protecting.
  People might die, but me, I will be the last one to run out of here?. ?David
  Kato did not run, and he died. We cannot leave his work undone? Gloria
  Careaga stressed.
  
  
  
  David Kato visited the ILGA?s headquarter in Brussels as recently as march
  last year on a tour of European institutions and governments to boost
  support against the Ugandan law proposal aiming to make homosexuality
  punishable by death. Kato has been arrested three times for his activism and
  faced innumerable other forms of harassment and assault. A long-time
  activist, Kato had earned the title of ?grandfather of the kuchus? ? as gay
  men in Kampala call themselves ? for his work on behalf of people in the
  LGBT community. In the past he has sheltered many people in his home,
  visited them in prison and worked for their release. He worked as the
  advocacy and litigation officer for SMUT, Sexual Minorities Uganda, Uganda?s
  main LGBTI Rights group. David Kato?s murder ironically comes on the same
  day that United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon made the strongest
  call ever by the UN for an end to human rights violations based on sexual
  orientation and gender identity.
  
  
  
  Mario Kleinmoedig
  
  ILGA Press Officer

• Topics tropicalized for us?

  Posted: January 13, 2011, 4:13 am by Naughty feeling

         I can't really be sure. But I am of the inclination that the world is conspiring for some unknown reason so far. In my past single week of being on campus, I can almost swear that there has been a very sharp increase on debate  regarding the gay community both in Kenya and globally mind you that 96% of the people I interact with so far are heterosexual. Though most of the arguments are tropicalized (made to suit our Kenyan situation). I realize that there is a gradual increase in the interest on the subject of homosexuality amongst our future leaders (am not so sure about the leaders part).
  
        Obviously the discussions have been more inclined towards the argument against supporting homosexuality and accepting homosexuals in our society. Though this is a chance for the trolls to spread their vitriol, I have come to see this as a disguised blessing (stay with me on this one). The thing is, as these arguments continue to be on their minds and lips, they will be forced to research their facts and maybe, just maybe they may be able to realize the fallacies that they have for most of their young adult lives idolized as truths and get to see this situation in proper context. The main thing that made me find this weird coincidence worth writing about is the fact that many are getting to stop seeing this as a religious issue and are getting to see it in the proper social context that should be their basis of argument. Though the bible argument is far from over, I hope reason prevails. Just call me optimistic or delirious but I see hope...

• Happy new year

  Posted: January 6, 2011, 1:20 am by Naughty feeling

  A rather belated wish to y'all for a happy new year!
  
  Getting down to other 'stuff', I happen to have not had any sort of a holiday what with all the assignments and innumerable number of research papers to submit. I haven't much to say save for expressing my hope for a good new year and from the onset this promises to be an entirely new and breathtaking time for the next 359 days (hope the champagne keeps on flowing and the party don't stop). Am so glad for all the good things that I have in my life inclusive of my 'blogworld' out here, a place of refuge. 
  Talk to you soon after I make some old professor angry with lengthy reports. ;)  

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