On Saturday the 17th of October 2020, Living Free UK in collaboration with Global Black Gay Men Connect, House of Rainbow, and African Equality Foundation will be hosting a virtual Symposium as part of Black History Month with the theme: Celebrating Black Excellence. “With an All Black Trans Panel, the event aims to have a meaningful conversation around intersectionality as well as […]
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Fem Alliance (FEMA) Uganda in partnership with Ice Breakers Uganda (IBU) commemorated the annual World Mental Health Day in Kampala on Saturday 10th October 2020 under the theme “Take A Step Forward”.
11th October is celebrated globally within the LGBTI community as International Coming Out Day. The day is an annual LGBT awareness day observed annually to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons to “come out of the closet”.
Today, we look back at some of the individuals we’ve profiled over the years and share their coming out stories.
8th October is International Lesbian Day, a celebration that initially started in New Zealand and Australia in 1990 and has now been adopted by the global LGBTI movement. The day is intended to celebrate lesbian culture, resilience, beliefs, struggles as well as their contribution to the movement as a whole.
Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum, last week, launched the first ever consolidated report detailing human rights violations against key populations in Uganda. The report focuses on the period 2018-2020.
Trans Youth Initiative-Uganda (TYI-Uganda) is a rural transgender youth women, transgender youth sex workers and gender diverse youth led organization in Mbarara, western Uganda. We are seeking to hire a Programs Director and Finance Manager, please send in your applications by 2nd October 2020.
The heterosexual community refers to you as gay while the LGBT community refers to you as ‘straight’. It is a deep seated prejudice that has helped me understand homophobia. We can’t demonize people as homophobic, yet we ourselves treat bisexuals with similar sentiments.
Network for Key Population Service Organisation (UNESO) with support from UHAI and AIDSFONDS, last week, released a report detailing the human rights violations experienced by sex workers during the national lockdown that was imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In part one of this two-part series, an open bisexual woman who prefers to identify as queer in the acceptance that her sexuality is fluid and ever changing speaks to our reporter about what life is like for her and how she navigates and balances her marital relationship with her attraction to women.
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).