 She always lived openly as a lesbian because she simply didn’t know it was illegal, and didn’t understand that it would, in her words, “later turn out to be a big deal.” “Every time I got picked on or punished for being a lesbian I thought they were just using it as an excuse to bully me.It’s only when I was suspended at (the) University that I took interest in finding out why my sexuality was a big deal for others and that’s when I found out that it was actually illegal to be gay.I did research and found out not only in Uganda, and other parts of Africa but all over the world, and that was my turning point.”

The threats and beatings were terrible and unrelenting.