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====Uganda==== In August 2012, the first Ugandan pride parade was held in [[Entebbe]] to protest the government's treatment of its LGBT citizens and the attempts by the Ugandan Parliament to adopt harsher [[sodomy]] laws, colloquially named the [[Kill the Gays Bill]], which would include life imprisonment for aggravated homosexuality.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Okeowo|first1=Alexis|title=Gay and Proud in Uganda|url=https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/08/gay-and-proud-in-uganda.html|website=newyorker.com|publisher=Condé Nast|date=August 6, 2012|access-date=June 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810083452/http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/gay-and-proud-in-uganda|archive-date=August 10, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> A second pride parade was held in Entebbe in August 2013.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Heuler|first1=Hilary|title=2nd Annual Gay Pride Parade Held in Uganda|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/second-annual-gay-pride-parade-held-in-uganda/1723313.html|access-date=August 10, 2014|work=VOA|date=August 4, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219075359/http://www.voanews.com/content/second-annual-gay-pride-parade-held-in-uganda/1723313.html|archive-date=February 19, 2014}}</ref> The law was promulgated in December 2013 and subsequently ruled invalid by the [[Constitutional Court of Uganda]] on August 1, 2014, on technical grounds. On August 9, 2014, Ugandans held a third pride parade in Entebbe despite indications that the ruling may be appealed and/or the law reintroduced in Parliament and homosexual acts still being illegal in the country.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Fallon|first1=Amy|title=Ugandan Gays Risk All in Pride March|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/09/ugandan-gays-risk-all-to-march-for-pride.html|access-date=August 10, 2014|work=The Daily Beast|date=August 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810084923/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/09/ugandan-gays-risk-all-to-march-for-pride.html|archive-date=August 10, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>
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