ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the Ugandan press framed the Ugandan national identity around the issue of homosexuality. The chapter contends that the discussion on homosexuality in Uganda takes place in a cultural context for both the public and the media. The author draws majorly on Namusoga’s (2017) content analysis of two Ugandan newspapers’ framing of homosexuality from 2007–2011. The chapter demonstrates that the two newspapers framed homosexuality as a culture/religious issue and as a national issue. It emerged that this framing constructed the Ugandan national identity as one that does not include being homosexual.
