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UGANDA: The aftermath of a mob attack for being gay, scars that itch day and night.

On the 11th of September 2012, me and my boyfriend were in our rental room having sex when one of the next door neighbors heard our screams. He had always suspected me and my boyfriend being gay. On hearing the screams, he immediately rushed to Kalisizo police station and on the way there he went telling neighbours in the village that he heard us having sex. He then came with all villagers and police right to our door and they knocked. We didn’t open it which forced the police to kick it inside. Police found us all naked and threw all of us out of the house thus handcuffing us. Immediately the mob started beating us with stones and sticks with nails saying that we were curses and needed to be killed.

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ZIMBABWE: Activist awarded David Kato Vision & Voice Award

“We think Martha is the perfect recipient for this award. We need more allies like Martha, who are willing to promote the rights of LGBTI people and to speak out against homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia,” said Alan Smith, Senior Adviser in the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s HIV team and supporter of the IPPF Sexual Diversity Network.

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Coming soon… “Diaspora Diaries”

To share one’s story is not only empowering but also therapeutic. For many LGBTQI people who find themselves displaced and planted in foreign lands there are hit by harsh realities, which can be both crippling and exciting, either way to share these stories seems an ideal way to maintain a connection and a sense of belonging to the home ground LGBTI movements.

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My journey from Christianity to Humanism

Organised religion is the world’s greatest fount of obscurantism, prejudice, superstition and oppression. It has caused misery to billions of people for millennia, and continues to do so in many countries. So how come I was once in thrall to it? Nowadays, I am a human rights activist motivated by love and compassion for other people. I do evidence-based campaigning, based on humanitarian and rational values.

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KENYA: OVER 30 UGANDAN QUEER REFUGEES ARRESTED IN KENYA

On feb 9th, 32 Ugandan LGBTi were arrested following a tip off while they were celebrating a succesful resettlement application of one of their own at Kabiria Estate, Kawangware, Nairobi. They were taken to Kabiria Police Station but after the intervention of UNHCR among other legal agencies, they were released without being charged. But the […]