A former defense minister turned guerrilla leader, Museveni became President after a 1986 coup and has been in that office ever since -- thanks in part to the Ugandan parliament's decision, in 2005, to remove presidential term limits. He has gained international attention for calling homosexuals "disgusting" and signing a 2014 law that toughens penalties against gay people, and he defines some homosexual acts as crimes punishable by life in prison.