The situation for gay people is getting worse in Uganda after the Sunday tabloid Red Pepper published the names and whereabouts of forty homosexuals. Doug Ireland reports:

A new chapter opened this week in a vicious, media-led witch-hunt that is outing gays in Uganda, when a daily newspaper unveiled the latest instalment of what it bills as its "Weird Sex Investigation," publishing the names and detailed descriptions of 40 men it claimed are gay.

Under the shock headline "HOMO TERROR! We Name and Shame Top Gays in the City," Red Pepper's Sunday, September 9 issue provided details so precise—physical descriptions, residences, places of employment, and the kind of cars they drive—that those targeted, almost all from the capital city of Kampala or its environs, were easily identifiable to their neighbours and co-workers.

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By the way, if you want an insight into the everyday life of a gay man in homophobic Africa, I highly recommend the Gay Uganda blog. As it's hosted by Google in the United States, it's one of very few websites the Ugandan government has not been able to shut down.