ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how sexual and religious discourses can travel transnationally across international borders in ways that that institutionalize heteronormativity and homophobia. Colonial French and British missionaries viewed pre-colonial Ugandan sexualities as immoral, primitive, and uncivilized, and attempted to institute policies to ensure a narrowed sexual expression as reproductively and heterosexually focused. Over time, discourses from the American Christian Right have influenced Ugandan sexual politics, encouraging its parliament to pass some of the most punitive laws against homosexuality in the world. Ugandan politicians are both influenced by the Western Christian Right and develop their own discourses of homosexuality as examples of “Western decadence” that stray from a revisionist history that presumes a pre-colonial, heterosexual past.
