Rally against Uganda’s gay hate bill

By Barry Duke • 11 years ago

Dec
2012

THIS coming Monday – December 10 – a rally will be held outside Uganda House, 58-59 Trafalgar Square, London to protest against Uganda’s planned “Kill the Gays” Bill.

The protest, which will be held between noon and 13.30 on Human Rights Day has been organisedby the UK Consortium on Aids and Development and it is imperative that as many people as possible turn out to give Uganda the message that this Bill needs to be stopped in its tracks.

THIS coming Monday – December 10 – a rally will be held outside Uganda House, 58-59 Trafalgar Square, London to protest against Uganda’s planned “Kill the Gays” Bill.

The Author

Barry Duke

Veteran journalist Barry Duke, born in South Africa in 1947, settled in the UK in 1973, where he became actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement and gay rights organisations. A militant atheist, he joined the National Secular Society (NSS) and was a co-founder in 1979 of the Gay Humanist Group which changed its name to the Gay & Lesbian Humanist Association in 1987. In 2017 he was handed a Lifetime Achievement award by the NSS for his "spirited opposition to religious intolerance and irrationality" in his roles as a free speech advocate and his work as editor of the Freethinker and the Pink Triangle Trust website. In 2022, when the Freethinker suddenly went "woke", he was summarily sacked for being too aggressively atheistic. In 2017 he was married to his partner of 25 years, Marcus Robinson, in Gibraltar. The couple live in Benidorm, Spain.