The beef among Ugandan musicians is going to another level. Musician Bebe Cool has been a victim of several photoshop pranks, showing him as inferior to his rival Bobi Wine. In one photoshop pic, Bebe Cool was shown in a canoe with Bobi Wine laughing at him in his yacht.
But today, a photo of Bebe Cool in a gay sexual act with another man started circulating on Facebook and whatsapp. Bobi Wine’s fans who circulated the photo said it had been extracted from a leaked sex tape.
It is clearly a work of photoshop, but it does have a background. In December last year, Bebe Cool posted a comment on his Facebook wall that many saw as pro-gay. Parliament had passed the anti-gay bill and forwarded it to President Museveni to assent into law and Bebe Cool said that the president would be making a grave mistake signing the bill into law.
It called for life imprisonment for some homosexual acts.
Bebe Cool stated that he was not gay, but he felt the law was tough on gays because he believes some of them were born that way.
“I can’t support the anti-gay bill even if I am not gay. Neither do I want to be sexually approached by a man, nor my daughter or my son if they were not born gay,” Bebe Cool said back then.
“Don’t you think those who are gay in Uganda have the same equal rights as humans? If your son became gay, would you want them to be taken to jail?” Bebe voiced his views.
Meanwhile, his rival Firebase president Bobi Wine is an outspoken anti-gay activist. He has lyrics calling for burning of “chichi men” (gays) and others like “God created Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve.” He was in July this year stopped from travelling with The Ebonies for a show at the Troxy Theatre in London because the owners of the venue where they were slated to perform didn’t want someone who is against gays to perform at their venue.
President Museveni signed the Anti-Gay bill into law in February this year, but it was later quashed by the Constitutional Court, because it had been passed in Parliament without quorum.
Despite that, gays can still be prosecuted in Uganda using the penal code that criminalises homosexuality.