Originally posted on Spectrum Uganda Facebook page. Hi, please accept my apologies for not using my real fb account am kinda scared of the reactions and Wat am seeing now in Uganda ‘abantu babya banabwe ku social networks’ that’s y I had to create a new fb account which is not known well. Back to […]
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Global Fund Uganda CCM moves to further alienate MSM, Transgender, LGB, and IDU populations in HIV/AIDS Programme. Key Affected Population (KAPs) groups in Uganda have today reacted with sadness at the unfortunate move by Uganda Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) to block sexual and gender minorities from representation on the CCM. The activists meeting this morning […]
I lost my scholarship early 2014 after my local sponsor realized I was gay. By then I was in my last semester of second year at Makerere University in Kampala.This made me to apply for a dead semester between August and December last year because I couldn’t raise tuition. I would like to go back […]
Overturn convictions under all anti-gay laws, not just gross indecency London, UK – 2 February 2015 “It’s great that Alan Turing was granted a pardon but what about all the other victims of homophobic legislation? An estimated 50,000-100,000 men were convicted under Britain’s anti-gay laws during the twentieth century. All these men deserve a pardon, […]
The first of its kind, this event will be going down in a five star hotel in uptown of Nairobi. And I am among other guests in attendance. The first LGBT event in Nairobi this year dedicated to us this coming Valentine’s Day. I managed to get their flier and with the information […]
Members from the minority communities (the sex workers, MSM, LGBTI and drug users) in Uganda convened at Grand Global Hotel on the 29th of Jan 2015 to nominate their representatives to Global Fund country coordinating mechanism. This comes after the results in the first nominations were contested against by the members of the key affected populations that there was ingenuity in the selection process and decided to re-do the process through a fair and balanced nomination process.
As an openly gay, I have had to put up with some rhetorical questions and by explaining myself and describing gay sex to curious strangers and onlookers because of how I dress and walk who I hang out with or go to bed with,what I order on the menu, where I go out and why I do so. Spwaking from gay point of view, the following are the things I’ve had to do to avoid or to escape unnecessary attentions and confrontations during my day to day activities.
A mad man is dirty only if he is your distant relative. I used to think, I would kill a baby born
with mental disability until one of my sisters was born mental incapacitation. Homosexuals are
evil only if they are not your children or family members! Before you preach hate to
homosexuals, worry about your children, one of them could be part of the minority. It is African
to be tolerant, so accept members of our brotherhood into our homes. They don’t need any
special form of attention or care all they need is love. Just like HIV positive members of society,
all that homosexuals need is acceptance!
by Marissa Dear God! Did Beautiful Leelah reach you? You know our merciful father; Leelah felt like a beautiful song without words, A ship underneath the waves, A bird without wings, A child who lost its way home, Leelah didn’t find a reason to smile! Beautiful Leelah; Your eyes didn’t open to see the world to its […]