Uganda gay rights activist decapitated
By By Celeste Lavin, 365gay.com
Ugandan LGBT activist Pasikali Kashusbe was discovered murdered when Ugandan police found his severed head, which had been thrown down a latrine. The latrine was on the farm of Kashube’s employer, Electoral Commission Chairman Badru Kiggundu.
Last week, a sexually-mutilated and decapitated body had been found less than a mile from the site of Kashube’s head. It has been reported that investigators believe this was Kashube’s body.
Kashube was a volunteer with Integrity Uganda, a gay rights group. He went missing in June, but Ugandan officials only found him when they were searching for another missing gay activist, Rev. Henry Kayizzi Nsubuga.
Nsubuga has been missing for three weeks, ever since he delivered a sermon in support of gay rights in Uganda.
Homosexuality in Uganda is illegal, with punishment up to life imprisonment. A bill, known colloquially in the U.S. as the “kill the gays bill” was introduced in October that would make those convicted of homosexuality subject to the death penalty. The bill is being met with much criticism from the international community, though it appears to have been sparked by a visit from U.S. evangelical missionaries.
The Ugandan lawmaker who proposed the bill, David Bahati, has refused to repeal the bill, despite international pressure.
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George Michael arrested in London after car crash
By The Associated Press, 365gay.com
(London) British media reports say George Michael has been arrested after a car crash in London. The BBC says the 47-year-old singer was arrested Sunday after police responded to reports that a car had crashed into a building in Hampstead, an upscale residential area in north London.
Metropolitan Police say only that they arrested a man in his 40s early Sunday in Hampstead on suspicion of being unfit to drive. They say the man was taken to a police station and released on bail pending further inquiries.
The singer’s publicists in London declined comment Tuesday.
Last year, Michael was questioned by police after his car hit a tractor-trailer, but was released. He was banned from driving for two years in 2007 after pleading guilty to driving on drugs.
Hawaii governor vetoed civil union bill
By By Celeste Lavin, 365gay.com
Linda Lingle, the governor of Hawaii, vetoed the bill that would legalize same-sex civil unions in the state.
The bill would have guaranteed couples in a civil union the same rights and responsibilities of marriage, but would have maintained the difference in language.
Lingle took months to make her decision, saying hat it was one of the hardest she has made since she first took office eight years ago.
“There has not been a bill I have contemplated more or an issue I have thought more deeply about during my eight years as governor than House Bill 444 and the institution of marriage,” said Lingle at a news conference. “I have been open and consistent in my opposition to same-sex marriage, and find that House Bill 444 is essentially same sex marriage by another name.”
Read 365gay.com’s previous coverage on same-sex marriage and civil unions in Hawaii.
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