Nigerian filmmaker Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim is making history in her new movie Ife, where she focuses on a love story between two lesbians. According to the fil maker, Ife is a Yoruba word meaning love.
July 2020
This program seeks to help challenged LBQ women to obtain and keep permanent housing, breaking the repetitive cycle of homelessness. Through effective and efficient programs like Hebwa, Hakuna Matata and Advocacy that are carried out at the shelter.
In my working career that now spans over three decades I have worked with many vulnerable and marginalized groups (handicapped children, psychiatric patients, migrants, sex-workers, survivors of domestic abuse etc. etc.). Nevertheless, I want to argue that LGBTIQ refugees are often in exceptional difficulties.
The organization which advocates for LGBTI rights in Uganda through the use of sport, visual art and culture hopes to create a more functional working relationship between these two marginalized groups – a move they believe will increase visibility and acceptance of the two within the greater societal setting.
HRAPF, on Thursday 16th July 2020, made a statement on the violations of human rights for marginalised persons during the implementation of measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Uganda at the 66th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Banjul The Gambia.
5TH EDITION OF BOMBASTIC MAGAZINE 17th July 2020 We are ecstatic to finally be able to share the fifth and latest edition of our annual publication, Bombastic Magazine. This particular edition is very special because it focused on LGBTIQ refugees and asylum seekers- a category of people within our community whose existence we continue […]
Sudan is the latest country to give hope to the African LGBTI community after it passed an amendment to abolish the section of its penal court that imposes the death penalty on anyone found engaging in consensual same sex relations. The new amendment was passed last week.
Uganda’s Parliament, on Thursday last week, moved a motion to introduce the Human Rights Defenders Protection Bill 2020 in a plenary sitting. The motion was moved by Gulu Municipality Member of Parliament, Hon. Lyandro Komakech who requested for leave to prepare and introduce the said bill on the floor of Parliament as a Private members’ bill.
“It’s about who we are beyond our sexual identities and associated stereotypes, what we do to contribute to our societies, and what resources we have available at our disposal as LGBTQ Africans.” Kehinde Bademosi, the Project Director of the event.
The online launch which will be held on Friday 17th July will run for two hours, from 19:00hrs EAT to 21:00hrs EAT. It will be live on the Kuchu Times Facebook page and we encourage all community members, leaders, allies, well-wishers and the general public to be a part of this very important and long overdue conversation.