# Slow news: Ugandan newspaper starts outing locals **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 23, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-ugandan-newspaper-starts-outing-locals/558067 "2010-10-23T02:29:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-ugandan-newspaper-starts-outing-locals/558067/21 "2010-10-28T11:41:35Z")
> [@Captain\_Midnight](#): > > I know an African kid from Burundi who claims that Kampala is a fun town. But he is not a boy fucker, so I can’t tell you about that. Admit it - you just posted that so you could write “boy fucker”. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-ugandan-newspaper-starts-outing-locals/558067/22 "2010-10-28T19:27:32Z")
> [@Captain\_Midnight](#): > > I know an African kid from Burundi who claims that Kampala is a fun town. But he is not a boy fucker, so I can’t tell you about that. That’s okay, I’m a boy fucker, so the balance of occult power is maintained. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-ugandan-newspaper-starts-outing-locals/558067/23 "2010-11-01T18:58:05Z")
but…[ > [@](#): > > Giles Muhame, editor of the two-month-old Rolling Stone paper, told the AFP news agency that he would defy the ban. > > “We will publish more pictures but in a diplomatic way, so that we can dodge the law,” he said. ]([Uganda's Rolling Stone paper told to stop outing gays - BBC News](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11666789)) ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-ugandan-newspaper-starts-outing-locals/558067/24 "2010-11-01T19:01:44Z")
What an honorable defense of free speech. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-ugandan-newspaper-starts-outing-locals/558067/25 "2011-01-03T22:14:23Z")
A Ugandan high court judge forbids all media from ‘outing’ people in the future and awards $650 to three outed gay rights leaders; also the newspaper must pay all associated legal costs from this lawsuit.[ [QUOTE=BBC] A Ugandan High Court judge has ruled that media companies in the country should not publish the identities of people they say are homosexuals. The decision was described as a “landmark ruling” by gay rights activists. [/QUOTE] ]([Uganda bars media from outing gays - BBC News](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12107596))This all comes from the country that debated a bill [calling for the death penalty](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34331632/ns/world_news-africa/) for homosexual acts. Colour me surprised… ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-ugandan-newspaper-starts-outing-locals/558067/26 "2011-01-04T00:41:01Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > [This all comes from the country that debated a bill [URL=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34331632/ns/world\_news-africa/”]calling for the death penalty](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12107596) for homosexual acts. Did that pass or not? I never heard a resolution. Huh, who knew the Ugandan judiciary would have more sense than the United States government? ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-ugandan-newspaper-starts-outing-locals/558067/27 "2011-01-05T07:12:53Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Uganda. Did they build the whole goddam country on top of an Indian burial mound, or something? Generally, such bigotry campaigns are whipped up by the rulers of a country to excite & enrage the populace, and thereby distract them from other things the government is doing (usually corruption & embezzlement on a grand scale). A bigger version of the stage magician ostentatiously waving his magic wand in one hand, to distract the audience from what the other hand is doing. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-ugandan-newspaper-starts-outing-locals/558067/28 "2011-01-05T07:38:17Z")
Uganda is just behind the times. A few weeks back I saw a program about Fran Liebowitz, and one of her stories was about the police raiding gay bays in NYC in the 60s and 70s. The next day, the names of everyone arrested would be printed in the NY Times, and everybody mentioned, from surgeons to janitors, would be fired from their jobs. There was no pretense they were being fired for some other reason – gays were outed and fired as a matter of routine and no one (but the gays) thought anything of it. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-ugandan-newspaper-starts-outing-locals/558067/29 "2011-01-05T15:03:28Z")
Fair play to Judge Vincent Musoke-Kibuuke. I assume this was something of an unpopular ruling. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-ugandan-newspaper-starts-outing-locals/558067.md?page=1)