diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/58632-uri-include_use_proxy.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/58632-uri-include_use_proxy.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8c97c7c0da3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/58632-uri-include_use_proxy.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - uri - properly use uri parameter use_proxy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58632)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
index f34c5368904..7e7ba225a39 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
@@ -1727,7 +1727,7 @@ def url_argument_spec():
 
 
 def fetch_url(module, url, data=None, headers=None, method=None,
-              use_proxy=True, force=False, last_mod_time=None, timeout=10,
+              use_proxy=None, force=False, last_mod_time=None, timeout=10,
               use_gssapi=False, unix_socket=None, ca_path=None, cookies=None, unredirected_headers=None):
     """Sends a request via HTTP(S) or FTP (needs the module as parameter)
 
@@ -1737,7 +1737,7 @@ def fetch_url(module, url, data=None, headers=None, method=None,
     :kwarg data:          The data to be sent (in case of POST/PUT).
     :kwarg headers:       A dict with the request headers.
     :kwarg method:        "POST", "PUT", etc.
-    :kwarg boolean use_proxy:     Default: True
+    :kwarg use_proxy:     (optional) whether or not to use proxy (Default: True)
     :kwarg boolean force: If True: Do not get a cached copy (Default: False)
     :kwarg last_mod_time: Default: None
     :kwarg int timeout:   Default: 10
@@ -1776,6 +1776,9 @@ def fetch_url(module, url, data=None, headers=None, method=None,
     # Get validate_certs from the module params
     validate_certs = module.params.get('validate_certs', True)
 
+    if use_proxy is None:
+        use_proxy = module.params.get('use_proxy', True)
+
     username = module.params.get('url_username', '')
     password = module.params.get('url_password', '')
     http_agent = module.params.get('http_agent', 'ansible-httpget')
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py b/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py
index 1413d365de6..5a91cd1f51c 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py
@@ -592,6 +592,7 @@ def uri(module, url, dest, body, body_format, method, headers, socket_timeout, c
     resp, info = fetch_url(module, url, data=data, headers=headers,
                            method=method, timeout=socket_timeout, unix_socket=module.params['unix_socket'],
                            ca_path=ca_path, unredirected_headers=unredirected_headers,
+                           use_proxy=module.params['use_proxy'],
                            **kwargs)
 
     if src:
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/main.yml b/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/main.yml
index 1d560e5c400..a6ba646d0a9 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/main.yml
@@ -301,6 +301,26 @@
     that:
       - 'result.allow.split(", ")|sort == ["GET", "HEAD", "OPTIONS"]'
 
+- name: Testing support of https_proxy (with failure expected)
+  environment:
+    https_proxy: 'https://localhost:3456'
+  uri:
+    url: 'https://httpbin.org/get'
+  register: result
+  ignore_errors: true
+
+- assert:
+    that:
+      - result is failed
+      - result.status == -1
+
+- name: Testing use_proxy=no is honored
+  environment:
+    https_proxy: 'https://localhost:3456'
+  uri:
+    url: 'https://httpbin.org/get'
+    use_proxy: no
+
 # Ubuntu12.04 doesn't have python-urllib3, this makes handling required dependencies a pain across all variations
 # We'll use this to just skip 12.04 on those tests.  We should be sufficiently covered with other OSes and versions
 - name: Set fact if running on Ubuntu 12.04