Ouganda : Harassment against lesbian, bi, gay and trans people

‘Exposed ! Uganda’s Top 200 Homos’ — A newspaper in Uganda is now revealing the identities of gay, lesbian, bi and trans people. It’s terrifying and could lead to arrests or vigilante killings.

Here’s the thing : major global corporations like Orange are actually advertising in this newspaper. If we can get Orange to pull their adverts, that could make the editor think twice about running “gay exposés”.

If tens of thousands of us sign the petition, we can show Orange that they are suddenly in danger of becoming known as an “anti-gay” brand in more than 100 countries, if they don’t pull these adverts in just 1 country.

Can you sign the petition ?
http://www.allout.org/uganda-corps

If the petition grows fast, the office team will talk to journalists who’ve reported about Uganda’s anti-gay law recently, and ask them to write stories about Orange’s gay hate connection. We think they’ll be interested.

Those kind of stories will ring alarm bells at the Orange PR department - it could be enough to get a quick decision to pull these ads.

Getting Orange to pull the adverts wouldn’t just send a message to the editor of the Ugandan tabloid — it would show the Ugandan government that a major investor doesn’t approve of the anti-gay law. If more companies join in, the Ugandan government won’t be able to ignore the potential damage to their economy of their attacks on human rights.

Sign the petition :
http://www.allout.org/uganda-corps

Together, we know we can often move major global corporations to do the right thing. We got Apple to drop a gay ‘cure’ app from their online store, and helped get key national Olympic sponsors to speak out against Russia’s anti-gay law.

If we can get Orange to pull their advertising money from a newspaper profiting from hate, it could signal to the tabloid and to the government that anti-gay hate is bad for business.

Will you sign now ?
http://www.allout.org/uganda-corps

Thanks for going All Out,

Andre, Guillaume, Hayley, Jeremy, Marie, Sara, Tile and the rest of the All Out team.