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Title: | Homophobic legislation and its impact on human security |
Editor: | Makofane, Keletso |
Year: | 2014 |
Periodical: | African Security Review (ISSN 2154-0128) |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 186-195 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria Uganda |
Subjects: | homosexuality LGBT legislation human security |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2014.913832 |
Abstract: | Despite sustained opposition, legislation criminalizing homosexuality persists and threatens human security in Africa in numerous ways. This paper explores the circumstances around the enactment of new anti-homosexual legislation in Nigeria and Uganda, examining five categories of insecurity faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the context of these laws: physical violence; extortion and blackmail; arbitrary arrest and detention; displacement from home; and loss of work. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |