On 20th December 2013 the Ugandan Parliament enacted a law titled “The Anti-Homosexuality Bill”. Proposed in late 2009 by MP David Bahati, the original draft provided for life imprisonment for the offense of “homosexuality” and for the death penalty for crime of “aggravated homosexuality”, including execution of “repeat offenders” of

The recent rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court on same-sex marriage (both dated 26 June 2013: U.S. v. Windsor, 2013 U.S. LEXIS 4921 and Hollingsworth v. Perry, 2013 U.S. LEXIS 4919) triggered the question of whether States should recognize the right to marry a person of the same sex. In