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We Are Here

We Are Here

Realities and resilience of Uganda’s LGBTIQ+ Community

Uganda, 2020

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left / Anna Xwexx Morena (trans woman | she) lives at the shelter of Icebreakers Uganda. Wearing high heels and dresses means to her being the person she is. Anna doesn't like to be considered as a transgender person, she sees herself first and fore

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Shoes at the office of Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG), a Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer (LBQ) diverse persons and women's rights organization based in Uganda's capital Kampala. Its mission is a world where being a LBQ woman is normal.

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Princess Nina (lesbian | she – on the left) and her sister Princess Jeanine Ram (trans woman | she) are living together in Jeanine's apartment in Kampala. Nina comes from Rwanda. She had fled to Uganda after her girlfriend was murdered, and she was

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left / Bougainvillea - beauty and protection. A lush blooming plant covered with thorns that embellish many fencesand walls in Uganda right / A young transgender woman at a private shelter in Kampala. Princess Jeanine Ram, a trans woman herself, op

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Boutras Anderson (trans woman | she) lying on the bed in her single room apartment, deep in thoughts. After she was fired, she finds herself forced into prostitution in order to support herself.

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Princess Rihanna (trans woman | she) at her daily shopping. Rihanna never cross dresses when she is in public, especially not in her neighborhood, because she is afraid to be noticed and attacked. She also never walks with her boyfriend. That would

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left / Pink sky over Kampala. right / Gloriah Mutyaba (lesbian | she) program director at Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG), witnessed the police raid during the Ugandan Pride Week in 2016 at Club Venom, where many of the participants were humiliated

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Princess Rihanna (trans woman | she) holds the baby boy of her neighbors. LGBTIQ+ people in Uganda are often accused to recruit children into homosexuality.

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Street scene of Princess Rihanna‘s neighbourhood in district of Kampala.

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left / A play of light and shade, of color and hues at the garden of Richard Ssebaggala. Only a few of Uganda's LGBTIQ+ Community reach a higher standard of living. right / As a Project Management Consultant, Richard Ssebaggala (gay man | he) has b

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Two trans women who fled their home countries - Burundi and Congo - in the hope of finding a better life in Uganda.

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Bob Bwana (gay man | he) is the Operational Director at Icebreakers Uganda, a nonprofit organization for Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgender people focused on Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention for LGBT people.

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left / Shower of blossoms. right / Villard Kesilla (trans woman | she) was born in Congo. She came to Uganda in 2014, not aware of the situation for LGBTIQ+ people in Uganda. Filled with a certain naivety she thought she would find a better life in

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Two tomatoes in a bowl. Stigmatization, a lack of education and often no income mean a meager meal for many of the queer people, mostly made of rice, tomatoes and onions.

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A group of transgender people at the private shelter of Princess Jeanine Ram. Most of them are without training, no job and no salary. And then there is the constant fear of their neighbours, that is why they spend most of the day indoors.

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left / ‚Culture, Religion and Politics have set a certain understanding of sexual orientation and gender identity in this country. Nevertheless or even because of that, I appear very feminine on my social media accounts, to help transgender women to

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Taxi park in down town Kampala. Most LGBTIQ+ people avoid using public means, especially taxis. They are afraid of attacks during the ride with one of the overcrowded minibuses. Those who can afford the costs use motorbike taxis, known as Boda Boda,

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‚We have made more progress since the interest is gone. Noise maybe works in San Francisco, but not in Uganda. In order to create change we need to do it silently, to trigger a soft awareness and, above all, we must be diplomatic. We are responsible

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left / Red flowering Canna Lily. right / Wammie (non-binary) lives at the shelter of FARUG, together with her girlfriend. ‚I am neither she nor he. I always lived my life trying to be what is inside me. The fact, that I am currently with a girlfrie

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‚I am conscious about my own wellbeing, especially about my security. I have been shifting many times, from place to place. I sense that my neighbors are homophobic. They avoid to use the toilet, after I used it. They don't want to get the spirit of

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Anna Xwexx Morena (trans woman | she) is posing at the shelter of Icebreakers Uganda. A safe place where she can be who she is.

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left / Shadow play of the leaves right / Hugor Kezakimana (trans woman | she) from Burundi and Villard Kesilla (trans woman | she) from Congo met at Youth on Rock Foundation, a community based organisation that serves LGBTI and sex workers in vario

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Princess Rihanna (trans woman | she) is cooking with her neighbours in the inner courtyard of her home. A fallacious situation, because Rihanna doesn't trust her neighbours, and the neighbours are suspicious and mistrustful towards her as well. Most

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Everyday road scene of Kampala. Small shops on the roadside are like pearls on a string, one after another. Behind these are residential areas, with winding alleys and numerous tiny apartments of the lower classes.

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left / Colour range from banana to yams leave. right / Johnson (trans woman | she) was born in the district of Mukono, 21 km east of Kampala. She was raised in a polygamous family, a form of relationship that is not only accepted in Uganda, it also

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The bible and her profound faith give Boutras Anderson the strength to cope with the situation, in spite of the fact that religious leaders are largely responsible for the homophobic tendencies in Uganda.

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Boutras Anderson (trans woman | she) at her home. ‚My mind seems to explode about all these problems. Whenever I can afford it, I smoke weed. This is the only way to distract my dark thoughts, It's my way to escape from reality for just a moment.‘

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