This series of videos explains how Rebecca Watson is wrong about Uganda’s anti-gay law, examining her video “entitled How the US & UK Led to Uganda’s New “Kill the Gays” Bill”.
- Rebecca Watson’s bad history of Uganda | correcting the record of Ugandan homophobia #1
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