UmojaPride Unity. Resilience. Pride.
UmojaPride is a community-led sanctuary for LGBTQ+ Ugandans: documenting the truth, restoring livelihoods, and working towards a Uganda where love is never a crime.
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Powers of Good: Who Is Still Standing Up for LGBTQ+ Africans in 2026
Across Africa, LGBTQ+ people and their allies keep organising under laws that can send them to prison. These are some of the people and groups doing that work in 2026.
11 October 2026, Activism
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Nobody Filmed This for Free: Uganda's Outing Videos
Hate sells. The algorithm didn't invent Uganda's outing videos, but it started paying for them.
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BREAKING NEWS: The Official LGBTQ+ Uniform Has Been Discontinued
Do LGBTQ+ people have a specific "look"? UmojaPride breaks down the myths and harmful stereotypes.
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The £40,000 "Bribe": Why "Voluntary" Departure is State-Sponsored Coercion
£40,000 is the price the UK has put on leaving. For LGBTQ+ Ugandans, this "offer" is a bribe to return to danger.
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The Locked Doors of the UK Asylum System
One day they offer "safe routes", the next they pull the "Visa Brake". Why legal migration is now a dead end for many fleeing persecution.
No life is forgotten and no struggle undocumented
Where the state demands silence, our work is the steady pulse that makes sure no one has to survive alone.
We operate discreetly, through trusted allies, finding housing, reconnecting people with income, and building legal and community support networks. Our success is measured in lives kept safe, housed and whole.
Truth
We challenge misinformation and homophobia using science, law and storytelling, affirming that queer identity is an inherent and historical part of Ugandan society, not a foreign influence.
Unity
We counter state-imposed isolation by connecting local communities, the diaspora and professional allies into one resilient collective.
Collaboration
We work with experienced organisations, professionals and grassroots groups so that vulnerable community members get expert support and protection.
Sovereignty
Justice is impossible without the means to survive. We prioritise restoring livelihoods, housing and job security for those displaced by hate, so our community can work and remain independent.
Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act was built on myths
Many laws affecting LGBTQ+ people in Africa today are not rooted in indigenous culture. They are products of colonial rule and political gain.
- LGBTQ+ people threaten the "traditional family".
There is no evidence that LGBTQ+ relationships damage heterosexual families.
- LGBTQ+ people endanger children.
Children are not endangered by LGBTQ+ people. They are endangered by stigma, violence and state-sanctioned hatred.
- Homosexuality is a choice, or a foreign influence.
Sexual orientation is a natural and deeply rooted part of human diversity. In the 19th century, Kabaka Mwanga II of Buganda openly had relationships with both men and women.
- Sexual orientation can be "fixed".
Psychological associations worldwide recognise sexual orientation as innate, not a lifestyle choice. Conversion practices cause harm.
Protest or party? The story of Pride
Our co-founder on what public support looks like when people are free to gather: bold messages of justice, and a level of community care that surprised him.
We document evidence of queer existence and the spirit of LGBTQ+ Ugandans, to show that diversity is a historical and biological fact.
Be the change
Your solidarity makes this work possible. Donations fund skills sessions, shelter and safety training for LGBTQ+ Ugandans.