11th October is celebrated globally within the LGBTI community as International Coming Out Day. The day is an annual LGBT awareness day observed annually to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons to “come out of the closet”.
Today, we look back at some of the individuals we’ve profiled over the years and share their coming out stories.
The Kwan Hebwa project currently under the Hebwa (Empower Her) program will run in the next 6 months and seeks to promote gainful self-employment towards economic development and financial independence through appropriate skilling for the LBQ women.
8th October is International Lesbian Day, a celebration that initially started in New Zealand and Australia in 1990 and has now been adopted by the global LGBTI movement. The day is intended to celebrate lesbian culture, resilience, beliefs, struggles as well as their contribution to the movement as a whole.
KUCHU TIMES MEDIA GROUP seeks to partner with three active and reputable LGBTI focused organisations to aid in conducting digital media and security trainings. The organisations must be based and have their programs and activities focusing on LGBTI persons living in Western, Northern and Eastern Uganda.
Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum, last week, launched the first ever consolidated report detailing human rights violations against key populations in Uganda. The report focuses on the period 2018-2020.
While LGBT+ people are not explicitly identified as a marginalized population in Agenda 2030, several SDG targets provide entry points that can be utilized by advocates of inclusive societies to ensure that LGBT+ people are not left behind and the purpose of the report is to highlight the linkages and build bridges between SDG action and commitments to LGBT+ inclusion.