Ugandan lesbian activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera was honored October 1 with Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize.” Nabagesera, 35, has been a powerhouse LGBT activist in Uganda founding Freedom and Roam Uganda, an LGBT rights organization; Uganda Beach Pride; opened Kampala’s first openly gay bar; and this year she launched Bombastic Magazine and Kuchu Times, an online radio and television station. Kuchu is slang for LGBT in Swahili. The magazine was distributed widely throughout Uganda […]
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