 We cannot afford to bury our heads in the sand and feel sorry for ourselves, we need to stand with our heads high and proud for trying our best to make this world a better place for justice and equality, freedom and liberation.”

She is considered to be the 'founding mother' of the Ugandan LGBT civil rights movement.In 1999, when she was 19 years old, she publicly campaigned to end to homophobia in Uganda, a country where homosexuality is against the law.In 2010, Ugandan newspaper "Rolling Stone" published names and photo of individuals it claimed to be gay, with the headline "Hang Them".