Before people want to blame Islam for this as a kneejerk reaction when they read that this is in Africa-
According to Susan Dicklitch-Nelson, a professor of government at Franklin & Marshall College, homophobia in Uganda was not always this prevalent, but anti-gay sentiment influenced by Christian evangelists from the US has helped fuel a cultural war on homosexuality for the past two and half decades.
Muslims make up around 14% of Uganda’s population.
I will be the first to say that Muslim countries are persecuting queer people horribly, but they are scapegoated when Christian countries, influenced by American evangelicals, are doing the same things.