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Members of Kahal Kadash She'erit Yisrael celebrate Shabbat in Putti synagogue.

Kahal Kadash She'erit Yisrael is a group of 123 Orthodox Jews based in eastern Uganda and part of the wider Abayudaya Jewish community The Abayudaya Jewish sect in Uganda was formed in the 1920’s by military leader Semei Kakungulu and slowly gained knowledge of Judaism and it’s practices through Jewish travelers. By the 1970’s there were as many as 3000 members of the Abayudaya, but persecutions by the Idi Amin regime forced many to convert to Christianity or Islam. Today there are approximately 700 members and 5 synagogues based around the town of Mbale in eastern Uganda, with the majority of followers practicing Conservative Judaism.

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LGBT History: Uganda King Mwanga II

King Mwanga II, who reigned from 1884 to 1888, was widely reported to have engaged in sexual relations with his male subjects.

Researcher Ambrose Mukasa said: ‘It is documented that King Mwanga II had many young men in his palace and was sodomizing them at his will.

‘When missionaries introduced Christianity and some of the young men were baptized and taught about the dangers of homosexuality, they started denying Mwanga the usual “pleasure” he used to get from them.’

Mwanga reportedly became annoyed and went wild wondering how mere pages had started disobeying him. He clashed with the missionaries. He instructed the killing of all the young men who disobeyed him – with the executions taking place between 1885 and 1887. And the murdered young men were considered martyrs because they resolved to die for their new religion rather than surrendering their bodies to the king.

The word Bbaffe in Buganda kingdom means ‘our husband’. All subjects in Buganda under Mwanga, including men, were instructed to refer to king Mwaga as Bbaffe because to him, men were also his wives.

‘Even men referred to king Mwanga II as Bbaffe which means that he was free to sodomize any man he wanted after all he was the husband for all men and women,’ said an elder in Buganda, Siomon Mugere.

On April 1899, Mwanga was forced out of his kingdom and exiled by the British into the Seychelles Islands, where he was detained until his death.