‘Passing’ is one of the most important things in trans person’s life. Most especially in a country where people associate to anyone with breasts dressed in men’s clothes as a lesbian, or anyone with a beard dressed in feminine clothes as gay. As trans men specifically we bind to pass as the men we know we are. This is my story.
March 2015
ISHR today published the call for applications for its 2015 Geneva training programme for human rights defenders. If you are a human rights defender keen to increase your interaction with the UN system, apply now!
The training will take place between 10 and 24 June 2015 and provides defenders with opportunities to put their advocacy skills directly into action at the 29th session of the UN Human Rights Council and the 22nd Annual Meeting of UN Special Procedures.
The consequences of being publically outed as a homosexual in Uganda have become the subject of an audacious film due out in the coming months WRITES Polly Kamukama Aptly titled Outed, the feature film is inspired by real life incidents following the controversial publication of names and photographs of alleged gay people by two leading tabloids in 2011 and 2014.
Brendah, aged 30, was on Monday arrested on charges of impersonation of barmaid in a bar she had barely worked for two days in Usenge.
She was then subjected to strippinging in and her had photos taken and shared without her consent.
LGBTI people in Uganda live with the threat of even more draconian legislation hanging over them. But there is hope.
Ugandan LGBTI refugees from Kakuma camp and parts of Nairobi Kenya protested outside the UNHCR offices in the Nairobi capital of Kenya on Wednesday the 11th of March and delivered a set of demands.The protest turned rowdy when UNHCR staff called police who dispersed the refugees.
As I sit alone at the shore of Lake Victoria, sipping a warm frothy and spicy glass of
Gilbeys, I touch my belly and think of my trials as a transman. Another one of my partner
is pregnant. I do not know the man whose seed she is carrying. Her womb is our womb;
yet she carries the seed of a man I know not.
Ishtar-MSM exclusively runs the Ishtar Wellness Centre which provides the following services which mainly target men who have sex with other men (MSM) in Nairobi.
I never stop learning and laughing. I tell the truth. I hug people and say, ‘I love you’ and “I’m sorry”. I fight for humanity everyday. I challenge everyone about everything. When I look at my kids I see nothing but socially adjusted, intelligent, beautiful children who are so so happy.
Artists in Spain have composed a musical tribute to Ugandan LGBTI community.