Friday, January 28, 2011

Ugandan LGBT activist murdered


David Kato, a spokesman for an LGBT rights organization in Uganda, was found murdered at his Kampala home this week. Kato was involved in a suit against a tabloid paper that had published pictures of people it said were homosexuals under the headline, "Hang Them!" The killing was condemned in a statements issued by the White House and the State Department, with President Barack Obama saying, "The United States mourns his murder and we recommit ourselves to David's work."