KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!: Regardless of your gender orientation or sexual identity, it is important to remember that the law provides for your safety when you are arrested. The list below is a reminder of the rights that we are each entitled to if ever we find ourselves behind bars.
Kuchu Times Editor
We urge the sex work movement, partners and allies to show their support to tackle sexual gender based violence by attending this event slated on Friday 8th March 2019 at Mulago Play Ground, 12pm-6pm.
I can’t see the things you say.
You say that you care and that you love me,
but when I’m around you I feel useless … worthless.
I’d want TRTL to make us a proud community- not the kind of pride people think where we’re going around putting others down, but the kind that allows (and perhaps, even demands) that you occupy your own space wholly. I’d want us to be able to show up in all our flair and magnificence, whatever that looks like for each of us. And I’d want us to be thriving as a community – TRULY thriving. Inside and out.
However, Zambezi Magic now says it is working with MultiChoice Zambia to resolve the Lusaka Hustle matter- they say they will also have key stakeholders review upcoming episodes to avoid any further conflict.
Fallen Ugandan LGBTQ activist David Kato was on 31st January 2019, given the first ever Paul Cottingham Trust Award for his work and effort towards bettering the lives of LGBTQ Ugandans. The award which was received by Sexual Minorities Uganda’s Executive Director Dr. Frank Mugisha was handed over by Micheal Cashman at the Kaleidoscope Trust dinner.
They listed a failed land governance regime, the failure to effectively tackle climate change, the failure to build an economically inclusive environment, the hefty national debt burden, corruption, delayed justice and the abuse of freedom of speech and expression as some of the major challenges that must be tackled in 2019.
To commemorate eight years since David Kato Kisule was brutally murdered, Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG) and Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) conducted a one-day breast and cervical cancer screening drive dubbed, “Strengthening Health Services for LBQ Women in Uganda”.
This came after the Angolan Parliament, yesterday, adopted its new penal code Act that saw these colonial provisions dropped. The new penal code also provides more protection for sexual and gender minorities as discrimination of persons based on their gender identity or sexual orientation is now a crime by law. Article 214 of the new Penal Code, forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment and the provision of goods and services
With less than a month for the ruling to be heard on Kenya’s groundbreaking case to have homosexuality decriminalized, it cannot be denied that the movement is setting precedence in the struggle for the rights of LGBTIQ persons in the region.