Ugandan president calls LGBT+ people are ‘deviants’

Ugandan president calls LGBT+ people are ‘deviants’ while falsely claiming ‘they are not persecuted’

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has said gay people are “deviants” and the movement for LGBT+ rights is a form of “social imperialism”.

Museveni, who has been president of Uganda since 1986, made his comments in an interview with CNN‘s Christine Amanpour, who asked him why political leaders and wider society is so afraid of LGBT+ people.

When Amanpour asked Museveni why “anti-gay opposition and harassment” is so widespread and accepted in Uganda, he insisted that queer people are deviants and said the people in his country do not accept them.

“Now, we have a problem of social imperialism from some parts of the world towards Africa,” Museveni said.

“Homosexuals are not new to Africa. They have been here. We know them. But we have got a different view of them. We think they are deviants. They are people who are deviated from the normal.

“They are not killed, they are not harangued, they are not persecuted, but we don’t promote them… We don’t promote and flaunt homosexuality as if it is an alternative way of life.”

He continued: “We don’t agree with your, the western way, of promoting homosexuality as if it’s an alternative way of life.”