According to the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC), the number of attacks against LGBT+ people is rising dramatically. For example, 78 cases were reported to the organisation in January. In February there were 117 and in March 367.

Kenyan LGBT+ activist Kevin Mwachiro tells Reuters news agency that people have begun to feel that LGBT+ people are a legitimate target. “They think they have the right to attack you. They think that because of what has been said in the press and what the government has said.”

Politicians from all parties have criticised the court ruling. They disagree with the Court's reasoning. It believes that the ban on homosexuality does not mean that LGBT+ people are not allowed to organise themselves and fight for emancipation. Politicians believe that the court encourages illegal behaviour in this way. Homosexuality is punishable by 14 years in prison in Kenya.

President William Ruto has indicated that he accepts the ruling, but "that doesn't mean we have to agree with it." The vice president calls homosexuality "the devil". The education minister accuses the West of "infiltrating" the country with LGBT+ people. Kenyan Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit sees the LGBT+ community as a strategy by radical climate activists to depopulate the planet.

A similar sentiment prevails in neighboring Uganda. There, a law has been passed by parliament that even makes identifying as LGBT+ a criminal offense. That law has to do with various conspiracy theories about foreign forces promoting homosexuality in schools in Uganda. These theories have recently spread on social media and have provoked a lot of outrage among the population, AFP news agency reports.