Human Rights protection in East Africa especially for minorities has always been at a record low; sexual and gender minorities receiving the last or no part of the stick. The basis for the lack of protection of sexual and gender minorities is rooted in post colonial fueled homophobia with claims that sexual and gender minorities […]
Kuchu Times Editor
The four organizations in partnership launched the #QueeringTheBallot situation room on Friday, 5th August, 2022, whose major roles will be rapid response in terms of security issues, deal with any press conferences that may arise and an information sharing center. An online poll ran by INEND in June this year to find out if registered queer Kenyans were going to vote or not and what were the reasons. Most queer Kenyans stood by the grounds to not vote because they felt like as queer Kenyans the state couldn’t care less about their existence. Post the elections INEND and her partners intends to carry out another poll to assess the impact of the #QueeringTheBallot campaign and if more queer Kenyans changed their minds and participated in the elections.
On Thursday, 4th August, 2022 the Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Ethics and Intergrity made their expectations of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) during a meeting the aspirants had with the forum at Parliament house. Top of that list was to ensure they challenge the Sexual and Reproductive Health Bill, 2017.
Sexual and gender minorities are left out of all services mandated by the constitution as rights of Ugandans; with the halt of SMUG operations, we are afraid this is the beginning of a really terrible dominos game where there will be an extinction of organizations providing services to our community. We are afraid of further marginalization of an already marginalized community.
Check out all these LGBTQ+ and sex worker friendly places hiring! As a community marginalized for so long, it is our duty to fiercely take up any opportunity found favorable to us! Godspeed
Extra Pride was born out of the lack of diversity for different LGBTIQA+ identifying persons. For example the general Pride did not give platform to Black People, Indigenous People, People of Color and Transgender & Nonbinary People to either be part of organizing or perform and those that were asked to perform were severely underpaid in comparison to their white counterparts.
Service provision has not been left behind in the virtual migration and Men of the Night Uganda (MONU) is introducing virtual reality assisted mental health support.
On June 24th, 2022 the US Supreme Court over ruled a decision that was made by the same court in 1973. The court then ruled that the constitution of the United States generally protects the liberty to choose to have an abortion during the Roe v. Wade case. Kuchu Times Media Group ran a poll […]
“This conversation seeks to problematize past modes of support and discuss the road ahead in Uganda and beyond. LGBT+ financial funding could be available but the discussion seeks to explore other forms of support the LGBT+ community requires,” Jakob Svenssen, the panel moderator explained.
On the due date, I took myself to the hospital but the doctors refused to perform the c-section without signed consent from a man. I was already and labour and bleeding profusely that hours later when they finally accepted to perform the c-section, my baby was already tired. My little girl died two days later and I found out two days after that because I was still in coma from the loss of blood.