Ugandan High Court bans media from outing ‘homos’ | Lesbilicious - the web’s tastiest lesbian magazine

In a victory for the LGBT community in Uganda, the High Court has issued an order that bars all media companies from outing members of the public. The ruling took place after three people outed by a tabloid newspaper took legal action.

Justice Kibuuka Musoke said that the Rolling Stone newspaper had put the lives and dignity of the those outed at risk. The tabloid was also ordered to pay the victims compensation.

Rolling Stone published a front page story entitled “100 pictures of Uganda’s top homos leak” in October 2010, using images and details obtained from dating sites Gaydar and GaydarGirls. The newspaper called for vigilante action against LGBT people, suggesting that “homos” should be hanged. The Guardianreportsthat at least one of the women named in the story had to leave her home after it was pelted with stones.

Rolling Stone managing editor Giles Muhame revealed his intention to defy the court order in aninterviewwith lezgetreal.com last week. He argued that since “homosexuals are criminals”, in Uganda, his newspaper “did the right thing to show those pictures”.

Gay and lesbian sexual activity is illegal in Uganda. Controversial legislation calling for the execution of those convicted of same-sex relations stalled in the country’s parliament last year after an international outcry, but the bill has not been scrapped.

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