By Rodney Muhumuza
Posted Saturday, May 8 2010 at 00:00
Kampala
A committee of Cabinet has made recommendations that could end Ndorwa West MP David Bahati’s proposal to have a separate law punishing homosexuality in Uganda. The recommendations, which Saturday Monitor has seen, come close to dismissing Mr Bahati’s draft legislation.
Rane Ramón Arroyo (born November 15, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, died 7
May 2009) is an American poet, playwright, and scholar of Puerto Rican
descent who has written numerous books and received many literary
awards. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the
University of Toledo in Ohio. His work deals extensively with issues of
immigration, Latino culture, and homosexuality. Arroyo is openly gay
and frequently writes self-reflexive, autobiographical texts. He is the
partner of the American poet Glenn Sheldon.
— Peter Drucker
FROM ITS BEGINNING in the 1990s in the United States, a “queer” activist current has gradually spread to other countries, including in recent years in Western Europe. In decades when the prevailing trend in LGBT movements has been to orient to legal reforms by parliamentary means, queer activism has constituted a third wave of sexual radicalism,(1) emphasizing visibility, difference, direct action, refusal to assimilate to the dominant culture, and the fluidity and diversity of sexual desire.
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