![]() “Unfortunately, we were right to issue that warning,” she says.įrank Mugisha, president of Sexual Minorities Uganda (Smug), agrees with that assessment. She says many of the report’s grim predictions have come to pass. “We were sounding the alarm and trying to prevent crisis,” says Jessica Stern, the executive director of OutRight Action International. ![]() In May 2020, a report by OutRight Action International, at the height of the first wave of Covid-19, warned that the LGBTQ+ community was likely to be disproportionately affected, particularly those living in countries where “stigma, discrimination, and criminalisation of same-sex relations or transgender identities prevail”. Covid laws being used to witch-hunt and harass the LGBT community Frank Mugisha, president of Sexual Minorities Uganda ![]() Pride organisers have made these decisions amid a pandemic that has placed LGBTQ+ people and communities under unprecedented pressure, be that socio-economic, psychological or political. Photograph: Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images View image in fullscreen The San Francisco Pride parade in June 2019, the last time the event was held in the city as it has been cancelled for a second year due to Covid.
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