Sexual minorities in Uganda have challenged the portrayal of ill-treatment of the LGBT community as a feature of 'less civilized' and traditional cultures mainly in the non-West by declaring that homophobia is a Western import, transmitted into the non-West by the West through the colonial encounter.

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Sexual minorities in Uganda and other parts of Africa have indeed argued that the criminalization and stigmatization of homosexuality in their societies were largely introduced by Western colonial powers. Before colonial rule, several African societies had more tolerant or different understandings of sexual diversity. The legal and social frameworks that explicitly criminalized LGBT identities in many African countries were often imposed during the colonial era, based on the laws and moral codes of the colonizing nations.

Sexual Minorities in Uganda Have Challenged the Portrayal of Ill-Treatment