LGBT rights campaigner and Executive Director of Kuchu Times Media Group, Kasha Nabagesera shares her story on BBC World Service "The Conversation" (2nd November 2018) about growing up openly gay in Uganda.

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"... my class teacher, when I was 8, she told me that I have lesbian tendencies. The word was too big for me so I didn't care what it meant and she didn't elaborate. She just said that I will be chased out of Uganda! And for me, that's what caught my attention. Chased out of Uganda!? Where would I go? This is the only place I know..."