Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Out In Africa by Aryn Baker

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: August 17, 2015
Article: Out In Africa
Page: 34
Author:  Aryn Baker
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Questions
1. In what city did the article take place in the first paragraph?
2. In which country is the city located?
3. What is the name of the transgender activist in Uganda?
4. Which information source outs prominent figures in Uganda and calls for them to be killed?
5. What is the name of one tabloid?
6. Which country enacted a law in February 2014 that allows courts to sentence LGBT citizens to life in prison?
7. Which tabloid printed "Uganda's Top 200 Homos"?
8. According to a 2013 Pew Research Center Report, what percentage of the population in these countries think homosexuality is unacceptable?
9. How many countries accept homosexuality and same-sex marriage is legal?
10. What is the norm in Africa?
11. How many African nations currently criminalize homosexuality?
12. Who is the adviser on sexual orientation and gender identity at Amnesty International?
13. Who is losing the battle on LGBT rights in the West?
14. Who sees LGBT rights as an unwanted Western import?
15. Who has responded by drafting anti-gay legislation in their country/countries?
16. Who still has colonial-era sodomy laws?
17. What did U.S. President Barack Obama compare anti-gay legislation to?
18. Who is the President of Kenya?
19. Who became concerned about what they saw as the growing influence of liberal Western values in Uganda and what they feared would be the accompanying acceptance of homosexuality?
20. Who invited a trio of American evangelicals to Kampala to lead a conference/seminar titled "Exposing the Homosexuals' Agenda"?
21. Who were the 3 U.S. Pastors who led the seminar?
22. Who promoted so-called gay-conversation therapy?
23. Who has spent 20 years fighting what he calls the gay community's Marxist plot to break down the nuclear family model and destroy civilization?
24. What Massachusetts Christian Organization did Scott Lively found?
25. Who said that her church wanted her to sign a petition demanding the death penalty for LGBT people?
26. Who introduced a bill calling for the death penalty for gay people, six weeks after Scott Lively's visit to Uganda?
27. Who is Uganda's Minister for Ethics and Integrity?
28. Is Uganda's Minister for Ethics and Integrity a Catholic priest?
29. Who feels Uganda had to improve their penal code in order to eradicate recruitment, promotion and exhibition of homosexuality?
30. When was David Bahati's bill of the death penalty for gay people passed?
31. Who signed DAvid Bahati's bill into law?
32. Who feels homosexuality is an example of the West's "social imperialism"?
33. Who was "mortified" that Bahati's Anti-Homosexuality Act included the death penalty?
34. What did Scott Lively do when he heard about Bahati's Anti-Homosexuality Act?
35. Who is Scott Lively's lawyer?
36. Who brought a civil case in a U.S. Federal Court in Boston against Lively on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG)?
37. Where is SMUG located?
38. What is SMUG?
39. What is the Alien Tort Statue?
40. Who said, "It (the case against Lively), provides a check for those evangelicals who want to preach homophobia and lets them know that it is no longer acceptable"?
41. Who said, "The notion that Africans cannot think for themselves and independently enact their own public policies on homosexuality is both racist and offensive.  The sovereign people of Uganda, and their duly elected parliament, are responsible for Uganda's laws and policies"?
42. Who overturned the law in August 2014 on a technicality?
43. Who goes by the name "Bad Black"?
44. What is the name of the bill that took over from the Anti-Homosexuality Act?
45. What does the word "Promotion" in the new bill mean?
46. Who said, "If you are homosexual, it is unfortunate"?
47. Who said, "But to go out on the streets of Kampala and say, 'I am gay,' is the same as saying, 'I am a thief or a murderer.'  It's like handing yourself to the police for arrest"?
48. What did the popular press dub the Anti-Homosexuality Act?
49. Who said, there was "no room for gays" in the country (of Kenya)?
50. Who threatened to slit the throats of gay men the same week that Kenya's Deputy President addressed a church congregation in May?
51. Who feels attitudes towards gays will eventually change, both in Uganda and in Africa?
52. Who said, "the more of these laws they bring, the more they are watering down the fear of homosexuality"?
53. Whose promising career as a male television presenter was cut short when one of the tabloids exposed her gender identity in December?


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