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There's an idea that you here again and again, which is that homosexuality is a disease that comes from america. but they're quick to say but the cure comes from america, too. they see the cure in the form of these sort of right-wing ideas that they adopt whole cloth from american right-wing think tanks, american right-wing evangelical organizations. >> jeff, do you see parallels in the type of american activism that led to this in uganda and what's happened in russia? we know that some of the anti-gay legislation in russia, the propaganda law, for example, was also influenced in part by ameri...

Small blog in this country got a very big international scoop. it was february 2009, so that's just one month into the barack obama presidency. right? and while most people in this country were fixated on the free-falling global economy, and whether the new president and newly elected democrats would be able to arrest that free-fall and bring us back from the brink of depression, three activists here in the united states were making preparations for big overseas trip. the blog in question which is called the box turtle bulletin, they got advanced word about this trip. five years ago today, the...

Members of the ugandan parliament present at the march conference left the meetings saying they needed to draft a new law to deal with the homosexuality issue. we learned it was not just the three american activists who had a front-row seat to what was happening in uganda. remember "c" street? a swanky town house in washington, d.c., run by a secretive religious group called the fellowship or the family. lots of conservative members of congress from both parties are believed to be members of the family. but they're pretty secretive. the family mostly operates off the radar. the one thing they ...

In it. he's a fellow at the nice institute. his latest article "inside the iron closet" about underground homosexuality in russia, in the february edition of "gq." jeff, mr. charlotte, it's great to see you. >> good to be with you, rachel. >> last month the president in uganda was calling this bill fascist. now he's signing it into law. what happened? >> it was an incredible act of sort of political jujitsu. he had been cornered by political rival who knew it was difficult for him to sign the bill because he risked the loss of foreign aid, especially u.s. foreign aid. we give over $400 million...

That doesn't include the sentence of death for being gay this time but does include lots of the other prison sentences that attracted so much international outrage years earlier. the ugandan parliament passed this bill in december and then earlier today, earlier this afternoon, you uganda's president signed the bill into law, calls for lifetime imprisonment for the crime of -- for being in a same-sex marriage, seven years in prison for attempting to commit homosexuality. this bill at various times over the last few years has appeared to be dead but today it officially became the law of the lan...