Ugandan Sexualities: Queering Identity, Human Rights, and Conflict Resolution

As sexual and gender rights gain more attention within the international human rights movement, it is crucial to incorporate a global perspective and understanding of these concepts into any future human rights legislation. This is especially true considering recent laws criminalizing same-sex and gender "deviant" behavior across the globe. This study seeks to contribute to this effort by exploring the ways sexuality and gender are conceptualized by the sexual and gender minority community - a population recently under attack by the nation's Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009. By broadening the understanding of how sexuality and gender are conceptualized and how these conceptions interact with other forms of identity, a more nuanced sexual and gender rights regime may be created. This expanded knowledge can then also inform the ways in which practitioners approach conflict resolution in settings where homophobia and transphobia are prevalent aspects of social conflict.