Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Tanzania experience substantial prejudice, discrimination, and violence, which has a significantly negative impact on their well-being, and are being denied their most basic human rights. I talked to three Tanzanian LGBT activists who are themselves members of Tanzania’s LGBT community to learn more about the lives of LGBT people in Tanzania. Lulu is a lesbian woman in her late twenties, Grace is a trans woman in her mid-twenties, and Baraka is a gay man in his mid-thirties
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Richard, whose love and enthusiasm for the community he serves is clearly evident, spoke to us about his life, his modest contribution and hopes for the Ugandan movement as well as what his new role means for us as a community.
Ice Breakers Uganda, earlier this week, launched their data awareness and digitalization project aimed at developing and promoting digital data collection and storage practices within LGBT and sex worker organizations.
She also added that there was still a huge gap in rural organizing which was very challenging. She pledged UNESO’s commitment to continue their nationwide mapping of sex worker led organizations.
The International Community of Women Living with HIV Eastern Africa (ICWEA) together with HEPS Uganda and Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) have received funding from PEPFAR Uganda to implement a 6-months Community Led Monitoring (CLM) Pilot Project in Uganda. We are seeking to recruit 40 community monitors who will be stationed across 13 PEPFAR implementing mechanisms in the regions of; Teso sub region, Eastern, Jinja, Acholi sub region, West Nile, Kampala metropolitan, South Western, Rwenzori region, Central 1 (Mubende), Central 2 (Masaka), and Mid-west (Hoima).
She further explained that the organization had come to the realization that survival in the presence of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge for everyone and therefore, there was need to find strategies to transition and adjust to the new normal.
The project was inspired by years of community engagement and recent scholarly and community research which repeatedly pointed to the impact of stigma, violence, and social isolation faced by the LGBT community in Uganda.
The Odyssey of Desire will tomorrow 29th August 2020 hold a live Twitter conversation featuring HER Internet’s Sandra Kwikiriza. The live chat will candidly address all things sexting, sex tapes and nudes and nothing will be off limits.
“In the eyes of a pandemic” is a documentary film showing the impact of COVID-19 on LGBT and sex workers community in Uganda, the strategies deployed by community members and organisation through the lockdown
The two officials that were issued summons by the Chief Magistrates court, in the criminal case arising from the torture of some of the #COSF detainees, did not turn up for the hearing. The two summoned are the LCIII Chairman Kyengera Town Council Hajji Abdul Kiyimba and Philemon Woniala the Deputy Officer in charge of Kitalya Prison where the #COSF20 were detained.