Blogger interviews editor who outed 200 Ugandans
Tags: Box Turtle Bulletin, Lez Get Real, Martin Ssempa, Rolling Stone, Sexual Minorities Uganda, Uganda 
In an interview published today on the American website LezGetReal, blogger Melanie Nathan spoke to Giles Muhame, the editor of Uganda’s Rolling Stone newspaper. You may remember it as the one that published the names and photographs of Ugandans perceived to be gay along with the headline “Hang them; they are after our kids.”
Sexual Minorities Uganda took the publication to court and were granted an injuction preventing the paper from publishing any more photos.
The editor, in a recent press release, states that he will carry on in spite of the court injunction. Presumably because he’s being well paid to do so.
With each publication, more evidence emerged that the tabloid, which carried virtually no advertising, was receiving support from anti-gay sources. Strong circumstantial evidence suggests that anti-gay pastor Martin Ssempa, who is wanted by authorities for his participation in an outing campaign against a rival pastor, was a driving force behind Rolling Stone’s activities. Seempa is currently sought by authorities for his actions in leveling accusations of homosexuality against rival pastors.
Melanie had a chance to interview the editor of the newspaper and ask him a few questions.
Giles Muhame framed his attacks as a mission to protect the children of Uganda and reasserted that he will continue publishing the names and likenesses of people he thinks are gay, regardless of what the court has said.
We will publish their pictures without fear from the courts. I am willing to go to Jail.
He also blamed Uganda’s poverty on homosexuals, and claimed they spread disease, lower the overall life expectancy and have orgies.
The interview is pretty head-wrecking, but if you’re into that, pop on over to Lez Get Real and have a read.
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Can you please publish the contact details of the managing editor or this newspaper?
I am moved to write and express my disgust and sadness at reading the appalling action of Rolling Stone Newspaper in Uganda, which has resulted in the unnecessary death of a man who just happens to have a different sexual orientation than the majority of Ugandans. The murder of David Kato is unacceptable and to incite hatred of one’s own people is unforgiveable.
As an African, I am ashamed to hear that an innocent life should be exposed to such cruelty and inhumanity. The newspaper and employed journalist who instigated this murder should be held accountable for this and every Ugandan and African seeking peace, justice and human rights, should stand up against such inhumanity.
Ola
Muhame is a dangerous bigot. Perhaps he is a repressed homosexual, no matter or not, he needs to be stopped from inciting muder and hatred. Anytime one hears or reads his filthy bigotry, one immediuately has to grap the vomit bag. Wake up uganda authorities.
Hi Ola,
To be honest, I don’t have them. I’ll see can I get some info off the girl who did the interview, but Rolling Stone is apparently a very small publication in Uganda and doesn’t have a web presence of any description. But I’ll see can I get an address or phone number.
Jacq
It is obvious the editor is gay, and so self loathing, this is his only way to ‘atone’ for his own perceived sins. Pathetic, Dangerous, and the most basic form of hate crime. What is the web address of this criminal paper? Let me guess, they are too gutless to have one while they go on ‘outing’ potential murder victims. Hypocrites of the most desperate and despicable type.
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