Across Africa, the loudest cries of “protect the children” are too often followed by silence when children are actually harmed — but fury when consenting queer adults exist. Across the African continent, a familiar refrain echoes from pulpits, political rallies, and parliamentary debates: we must protect the children. It is a powerful phrase — emotionally […]
February 2026
I flipped the last pages of this book on a bus while returning from somewhere, and two questions lingered in my head long after I closed it: Where will you be when the world heals from homophobia? And when will the world finally accept that people are people, regardless of their sexuality? I come from a country, Uganda, […]
In August 2023, something shifted in Uganda. Not quietly, not gently — but with the heavy, unmistakable thud of a law landing on real lives. The Anti-Homosexuality Act had just come into force, and for months many in our community had lived with a question sitting in our throats: Who will be first? Who would […]