--- description: After law enacted outlawing homosexuality title: Uganda Newspaper Outs Gays After Law Passed Outlawing Homosexuality image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4be17c5e4501cbf0/69868303e53ababe444d12f9/uganda-gays_yang.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Uganda](/tag/uganda/) ## Uganda Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Newspaper Outs 200 'Top' Gays in Uganda by [Maddy Fry / London](/author/maddy-fry/) ## Maddy Fry / London Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 25, 2014 2:02 PM CUT  A Ugandan reads a copy of the "Red Pepper" tabloid newspaper in Kampala, Uganda Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. A Ugandan reads a copy of the "Red Pepper" tabloid newspaper in Kampala, Uganda Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014.Rebecca Vassie—AP by [Maddy Fry / London](/author/maddy-fry/) ## Maddy Fry / London Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 25, 2014 2:02 PM CUT A Ugandan newspaper [published](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/uganda-tabloid-prints-list-top-homosexuals "undefined") a list of the country’s supposed “200 top” gay citizens on Tuesday, following enactment of a law outlawing homosexuality. _The Red Pepper_, a tabloid based in the capital city Kampala, printed the list of names, some with photographs, beneath the headline “EXPOSED!”, the Associated Press reports. They include a Catholic priest, a hip-hop star and the prominent gay rights activist Pepe Julian Onziema. Some of the people on the list had not publicly described themselves as gay. The story came after the government gave final approval legislation making homosexuality and the promotion of it a crime. Despite widespread international condemnation and threats by the United States that it would cut aid to Uganda if the country enacted the law, President Yoweri Museveni insisted it was necessary as a response to the interference of the West in Uganda’s affairs. He was quoted on Monday as saying he had been told “what they \[gays\] do is terrible,” describing them as “disgusting.” \[[_AP_](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/uganda-tabloid-prints-list-top-homosexuals "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/9534/newspaper-outs-200-top-gays-in-uganda/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/9534/newspaper-outs-200-top-gays-in-uganda/"},"headline":"Newspaper Outs 200 'Top' Gays in Uganda","datePublished":"2014-02-25T14:02:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:28:44.344Z","description":"After law enacted outlawing homosexuality","url":"https://time.com/9534/newspaper-outs-200-top-gays-in-uganda/","keywords":["Uganda","Africa"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4be17c5e4501cbf0/69868303e53ababe444d12f9/uganda-gays_yang.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maddy Fry / London"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4be17c5e4501cbf0/69868303e53ababe444d12f9/uganda-gays_yang.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Newspaper Outs 200 ‘Top’ Gays in Uganda","caption":"Newspaper Outs 200 ‘Top’ Gays in Uganda","creditText":"Rebecca Vassie—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/uganda/","name":"Uganda"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/9534/newspaper-outs-200-top-gays-in-uganda/","name":"Newspaper Outs 200 'Top' Gays in Uganda"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Uganda's President: Homosexuality is \"Disgusting\"","description":"Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law a bill that toughens penalties against gay people and defines some homosexual acts as crimes punishable by life in prison","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/jZTgMba4/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-02-24T21:51:52.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/jZTgMba4.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/9534/newspaper-outs-200-top-gays-in-uganda/","duration":"PT57S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/9534/newspaper-outs-200-top-gays-in-uganda/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```