A California man has scaled Uganda’s highest mountain and planted a rainbow flag at its peak, to protest the nation’s anti-gay law. He says it's a "sign of protest and hope" and has challenged Uganda's President to climb up take it down if he doesn't like it. Neal Gottlieb announced the move to the world via his Facebook page: His letter to President Museveni reads: On April 16, 2014, after a 6-day climb, I summited your country’s tallest peak, Mount Stanley’s 16,753 foot tall Margherita Peak, and mounted a gay pride flag at its summit in protest of your country’s criminalization of homosexuality. Your country’s highest point is no longer its soil, its snow or a summit marker, but rather a gay pride flag waving brilliantly, shining down from above as a sign of protest and hope behalf of the many thousands of Ugandans that you seek to repress and the many more that understand the hideous nature of your repressive legislation. The wiser of us understand that humans possess certain unalienable rights. These rights include freedom to express oneself, freedom to worship one’s god or none at all and freedom to live and love as one is born […] If you don’t like said flag on your highest peak, I urge you to climb up and take it down. However, you are an old man and surely the 6-day climb through the steep muddy bogs and up the mountain’s glaciers is well beyond your physical ability. Your days are more limited than most. Do you want your remaining days to be yet another blight on the history of your nation or will you find the strength to reverse your actions and allow all Ugandans to be free? With all due respect, Neal Gottlieb
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First published: Saturday, 26th April 2014 - 10:23am