Uganda’s LGBTIQ community has reason to jubilate amidst the COVID-19 hardships as an order for immediate release has this afternoon been issued for the #COSF19. This comes after the DPP withdrew all charges against the nineteen youth
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To commemorate eight years since David Kato Kisule was brutally murdered, Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG) and Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) conducted a one-day breast and cervical cancer screening drive dubbed, “Strengthening Health Services for LBQ Women in Uganda”.
This comes at a time when many LGBTQ identifying Ugandans had abandoned their different faith doctrines due to the judgment and segregation they were facing based on their sexual orientation or/and gender identity.
FEMA Uganda is currently looking for qualified LBQT persons to fill the positions of Administrator, Programs Manager, Finance Manager, Communications Officer and Receptionist. See below for the respective job descriptions and requirements. To apply, please send your cover letter and CV to femauganda@gmail.com by close of business on 15th January 2019.
“Many organizations have projects but they do not economically empower key populations. It is good to have projects that will enable LGBT youth to be financially independent and improve their standards of living.”
This year’s campaign themed “Stand Up for Human Rights” looks to encourage every global citizen to stand up, promote and defend human rights not only for themselves but for all humanity including gender and sexual minorities.
“… This raised the question ‘How do we protect this community member who does not not belong to any organization so as to protect the general LGBT community?’
“… And it being a society that is enshrined in patriarchal tendencies, these men often feel threatened by the presence of women that are masculine. So, they tend to use sexual assault and unwanted sexual advances as a way to make these LBQ women subordinate to them by threatening them because they feel like them presenting as queer is a threat to their manhood.”
“… It is self defeating how members of the same government can take opposing actions ending in the escalation of an epidemic which is and can surely be defeated without moral policing…”
“… 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…”