Medical workers ignore gay activist

KAMPALA (AP):

The medical workers who knew he was gay ignored him, attending to those who arrived after him as they openly gossiped about his homosexuality.

Pepe Julian Onziema, a prominent gay activist in Uganda, said yesterday he was recently forced to confront some nurses at a private clinic after they neglected to serve him in apparent hostility towards his sexual orientation.

Now that President Museveni has signed a new law imposing harsh sentences for gay sex, life is expected to become even more difficult for the country's homosexuals. The Ugandan government has issued assurances that health workers will not discriminate against homosexuals, but some gays say they are not confident about that.