When it comes to the matters of sex in an anti-gay society, homosexuality is one of the unthinkable abominable acts to indulge in. In January 2014, former President Goodluck Jonathan passed the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act (SSMPA). Also, the president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, signed a bill in 2009 which (originally) included a death penalty clause for some homosexual acts. He also expressed his distaste by stating clearly, in an exclusive interview with CNN that homosexuals are disgusting.
In a BBC interview conducted in 2019, some gay persons narrated their ordeal of being gay in an anti-gay society. One disclosed that his sister upon knowing his same-sex sexual desire, brought him to a prophet who performed the ‘conversion therapy’ ( an unproven practice that uses psychological, physical, or spiritual interventions in an attempt to change a person’s homosexual or bisexual orientation to heterosexual) on him. In his narration, he said that he was stripped naked and flogged seven times a day until he fainted the third day out of exhaustion and pain. Another lady narrated how some sort of oil was poured into her vagina in an attempt to convert her. Some testified of being harassed by policemen upon any form of suspicion that they were gay.
Imagining the awkwardness and distortion of the social structure within the purview of the same-sex union has been strong pushback against the gay movement. ‘How can a husband and husband or wife and wife start a family?’
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