Man plants LGBT flag at top of Uganda’s highest mountain
By Josh Haggis
A Californian man has planted an LGBT flag at the top of the highest mountain in Uganda – and challenged President Museveni to remove it.
Businessman Neal Gottlieb carried the flag on a six-day climb up Mount Stanley, whose elevation is over 5,100m, before reaching the summit on April 16, reports Advocate.
He then posted a picture of the flag atop the mountain to Facebook earlier this week (April 23), along with an open letter to the Ugandan President. See the picture below.
In the open letter, Gottlieb wrote: “Your country’s highest point is no longer its soil, its snow or a summit marker, but rather a gay pride flag waving brilliantly, shining down from above as a sign of protest and hope behalf of the many thousands of Ugandans that you seek to repress and the many more that understand the hideous nature of your repressive legislation.”
He continued: “If you had a son, daughter, niece or nephew that was homosexual, would you want her or him to be imprisoned for life? What if you have friends that are closeted homosexuals? Should they be locked up for the rest of their lives? If you were born gay, would you deserve to be imprisoned?”
To read the full letter, click here.
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