Uganda is far from the only country
to criminalise being gay and lesbian.
The death penalty for a non-procreative
companionship and same sex intimacy
is also available in Iran, Northern Nigeria,
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar,
Brunei, the two stans Paki and Afghani,
Somalia, Yemen, and finally Mauritania.
In total sixty five British Commonwealth countries
have laws that make homosexuality both inevitable
and illegal. We can be sure they would all threaten
to leave the Commonwealth if asked to modernise
their old colonial laws and, like the mother country,
accept what can't be regulated; sexual minorities.
I don't know which is worse for inspiring homophobia,
but whether their spur is Islam or colonialism,
these countries have good teachers in how to not forgive
those who are are unwilling, but natural, outsiders
to a system, patriarchal marriage, which is meant
to benefit the few, wealthy men, and provoke
many more to a state of dis-ease, managed unhappiness.
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