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How Uganda’s LGBT Community Is Fighting for the Right to Exist

Can Uganda’s gay-rights activists stop the government from enacting another homophobic law?

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Hakim Semeebwr, also known as Bad Black, is a transgender woman in a country where sex between two men, or two women, is illegal. Coming out usually leads to eviction, job discrimination and violent harrassment. Bad Black lost her television job when she was outed by a local newspaper.

And if some Ugandan politicians have their way, coming out as homosexual could mean life in prison, or worse.

Read more: Out in Africa

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