#SAYNOTOHOMOPHOBIA | SMUG🏳️‍🌈

An LGBTIQ Social Movement in Uganda.

[#SAYNOTOHOMOPHOBIA | SMUG🏳️‍🌈 @SMUG2004]

Urgent Release. Statement on the shutdown of Sexual Minorities Uganda operations by the NGO bureau.

[justice hunter 🇺🇬🇺🇸 @hillarytaylorvi]

happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[#SAYNOTOHOMOPHOBIA | SMUG🏳️‍🌈 @SMUG2004]

Happy Pride Month!

We are celebrating love, diversity, and the identities that make our communities beautifully unique. Pride begins with being unapologetically you.

Celebrate proudly. 🌈

[#SAYNOTOHOMOPHOBIA | SMUG🏳️‍🌈 @SMUG2004]

🇬🇭 Ghana’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill

The passage of this bill raises serious concerns about the rights, safety, and freedoms of LGBTQ+ people.

SMUG stands in solidarity with LGBTQ+ communities in Ghana

✊🏾 Human rights belong to everyone.

#WeStandWithGhana
#LGBTQRightsAreHumanRights
#SMUG.

[Rightify Ghana @RightifyGhana]

PRESS RELEASE

Rightify Ghana Raises Serious Concerns Over Exclusionary Public Hearing Process on Ghana’s ‘Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025’ (Anti-LGBTQ Bill)

The current approach creates the strong impression that the hearing process was treated largely as a...

[#SAYNOTOHOMOPHOBIA | SMUG🏳️‍🌈 @SMUG2004]

High Court affirms legal recognition of transgender Kenyans, directs state action to protect their rights.

We congratulate the transgender community in Kenya on this milestone after IDAHOBIT. This is what democracy looks like in action.

[#SAYNOTOHOMOPHOBIA | SMUG🏳️‍🌈 @SMUG2004]

IDAHOBIT 2026

Empathy and inclusion do not demand that we abandon culture, faith, or personal beliefs — only that we recognise the dignity and humanity of others, even in difference.

https://t.co/SMiL8UIbL4

[#SAYNOTOHOMOPHOBIA | SMUG🏳️‍🌈 @SMUG2004]

Can a country call itself democratic when some people must hide who they are just to stay alive, keep a job, love openly, or walk home safely? I do not think so.

Through a womanist lens, I believe true democracy is measured by how a country treats those pushed to the margins.

[justice hunter 🇺🇬🇺🇸 @hillarytaylorvi]

folks, today is the international day against homophobia, biphobia, intersexism and transphobia #idahobit

we remind everyone that there is no democracy without lgbtqi+ rights. democracy is the mother of all rights.

turn off the hate. love wins 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[#SAYNOTOHOMOPHOBIA | SMUG🏳️‍🌈 @SMUG2004]

IDAHOBIT 2026

A democracy where I have to shrink myself to survive isn’t really a democracy, it’s just majority rule dressed up in a suit. @senfuma_hans

#idahobit

[#SAYNOTOHOMOPHOBIA | SMUG🏳️‍🌈 @SMUG2004]

IDAHOBIT 2026

A government must protect minority groups from discrimination and ensure they can enjoy their rights without being punished or victimized by the general population.

#IDAHOBIT2026

[The Robust Initiative For Promoting Human Rights @triumphuganda14]

“There is no democracy without LGBTIQ rights.” Hillary Tailor

[#SAYNOTOHOMOPHOBIA | SMUG🏳️‍🌈 @SMUG2004]

Happy Happy International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia 2026.

Equality sits at the heart of democracy—today and always. #IDAHOBIT

[#SAYNOTOHOMOPHOBIA | SMUG🏳️‍🌈 @SMUG2004]

As a trans person in Uganda, democracy means being able to live safely, openly, and equally — without fear because of who I am.

Democracy should mean dignity, protection, freedom, and participation for everyone, not only for those accepted by the majority.

[#SAYNOTOHOMOPHOBIA | SMUG🏳️‍🌈 @SMUG2004]

A DEMOCRACY THAT LEAVES
SOME CITIZENS AFRAID TO
EXIST OPENLY IS INCOMPLETE.

Democracy should mean equal dignity, freedom, and protection for everyone, regardless of their identity.

#IDAHOBIT2026

[justice hunter 🇺🇬🇺🇸 @hillarytaylorvi]

@SMUG2004 @frankmugisha @KuchuTimes @queerprism256 @QueerYouth2006 @ILGAWORLD exactly. democracy is the mother of all rights including lgbtqi+ rights.

[#SAYNOTOHOMOPHOBIA | SMUG🏳️‍🌈 @SMUG2004]

"Reflecting on this year's IDAHOBIT theme, At the heart of Democracy, @hillarytaylorvi emphasizes that democracy is the mother of all rights and that 'there is no democracy without LGBTQ+ rights."

#IDAHOBIT2026 #Democracy
#LGBTQVoices #DigitalStorytelling

[#SAYNOTOHOMOPHOBIA | SMUG🏳️‍🌈 @SMUG2004]

This week, we shall join the world in commemorating the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.

This year’s theme, “At the Heart of Democracy,” invites us to reflect on what it truly means to belong, to be heard, and to live with dignity.
For many LGBTQ+ persons, democracy is not just about systems, it is about everyday experiences of safety, inclusion, and the freedom to be oneself.

This week, we are centering community voices through a digital storytelling series that captures these lived experiences. @hillarytaylorvi

#IDAHOBIT2026 #Democracy #LGBTIQVoices #DigitalStorytelling

[Kuchu Times Media Group | KTMG @KuchuTimes]

Survivors deserve to be heard. Not weaponized. This Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we're talking about who gets to tell the story and who pays when it's taken out of context. 🔗 https://t.co/wbTldcxjxW

[Frank Mugisha @frankmugisha]

Congratulations Botswana for not just ending colonial injustice in principle, but erasing it from your law books entirely. That is real progress. Meanwhile, in Uganda, we don’t just cling to these colonial relics we keep rewriting them, repackaging hate as law. The question is: why?🇧🇼🏳️‍🌈