The SMUG's report is a response to the anti-gay bill proposal passed in Ugandan parliament in 2009, and is aimed to prove that same sex relationships existed throughout Africa, including the territories that now form Uganda, before the colonisation.Īccording to the report, a commonly cited reason for maintaining, or expanding, criminalisation of homosexuality nowadays, is that homosexuality is 'un-African' or, in other words, a foreign phenomenon.
Ugandan martyrs were burnt to death between 18 on the orders of Mwanga II, for denying him gay sex when they converted to Christianity.
Ugandan King Mwanga II was widely reported to have engaged in sexual relations with his male subjects, according to the report by NGO Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) 'Expanded Criminalisation of Homosexuality in Uganda: A Flawed Narrative'.