Okay, but I think the conclusion got a little muddled here.
Among the things that are against the law in Uganda are: smoking in public places, prostitution, driving recklessly, and stealing public funds. These things all still happen, openly and blatantly, so I imagine that the comparatively underground gay community should be OK in the end.
This is also true in America and in fact pretty much every civilization that has ever existed (well, except specifically for the smoking part) so I really don't know what the hell they're trying to say. "Gay people will be okay so long as they don't get caught being gay?" Let's take relief that Uganda will only be
on par with the rest of the most intolerant places in the world? I suppose if you were imagining a very literal Faggot Holocaust, then yes, you can take some relief that the Ugandan SS isn't going to find you and put you in a death camp. Otherwise you're pretty much counting on the people around you being
simply too lazy to persecute you for being homosexual. It's not much of a relief.
I'm always amused by the suggestion that x or y minority be shipped off somewhere else, because I imagine it ending up a lot like Australia where the supposed penal colony ends up hoarding all the hot women and beer while the people who "got rid" of them get to enjoy their cramped little island with incredibly shitty weather.