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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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.
I was going through my spam on facebook inbox and came across a text Moses had sent to me. At first I thought it was just a spam like any other until I saw a similar message in my three other accounts. Moses was pleading to me vehemently and I finally decided to reply. I […]
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 […]
The long awaited Mr Gay World™ 2015 contest will coincide with this year’s Globeflight Pink Loerie Mardi Gras & Arts Festival™ Knysna 2015 in association with TRIARC & MRGSA. It will be held in both Knysna and Cape Town, with the grand finale taking place in Cape Town on Sunday 3 May 2015 It is official! Mr […]
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 […]
The Campaign Coordinator, under the direction of the Board of Directors, is responsible for the overall management and operation of the Campaign. Along with the board, the Coordinator ensures the implementation of current and long-term organisational goals and objectives, as well as policies and procedures. They are responsible for developing plans to achieve these goals; implementing policy; supervising all other senior roles in the organisation; fundraising and managing; maintaining Board relations; and supervising administrative management for the organisation.
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, […]