Uganda’s prisons are already massively overcrowded with an occupancy rate of 223%, and a prison population at 91/100,000 of the national population. 56% of these prisoners are still awaiting trial.

There is no way such a horrifically under resourced prison system could possibly accommodate even 10 per cent of the homosexual population being sent to detention prior to trial, let alone being imprisoned thereafter.

Therefore, I believe the way forward is for Uganda’s homosexuals to call the bluff of the administration by all volunteering themselves en masse for arrest as was done successfully in Tasmania, although Australia is clearly a far more moderate country. This would of course involve personal risk, but since life is already completely intolerable in Uganda anyway, what have they go to lose but their lives? Better dead than to have to live like that.

In any case, I can’t see even so barbaric and primitive a government as that of Uganda gunning down and killing 1.2 million of its citizens without trial, even if admissions have been made in such an act of civil disobedience. Regardless, if they do, within a decade there will be another several million of us born to our heterosexual parents.

It is reassuring in the meantime to note the level of disquiet being so strongly expressed at the highest level from all corners of the civilised world.

The AllOut petition has made its way into Eastern Europe all right.

And still I feel so helpless…

The bill is VILE regardless of the penalty imposed and should be fought until it is dead.