Frank Mugisha Risks Everything For Ugandans Who Can't Speak Out
No one would question LGBT Ugandans for leading quiet lives. In the months since Uganda enacted its "Jail The Gays" law, activists there report a 10-fold increase in dangers ranging from mob justice, assault, kidnapping, eviction and even murder.
And no one would balk if Frank Mugisha had faded from the spotlight after his friend David Kato was murdered in 2011. But for Mugisha, and those like him who dare to be publicly out in Uganda and on the world stage, courageously is the only way to truly live.
Kato and Mugisha faced threats of violence and murder way before passage and signing of The Anti-Homosexuality Act in February that made things so much worse. A Kampala newspaper infamously published a list in 2010 naming the country's 100 "top homos." Photos of Kato, Mugisha, and others were published by Rolling Stone (no affiliation to the U.S. magazine of the same name), which also included the home addresses and workplaces of some. They were accused of leading a conspiracy to "recruit" 100,000 Ugandan kids "into homosexuality." The cover featured a bright yellow banner that read "Hang Them."
Kato sued Rolling Stone for libel — and won. Then four months later, he was bludgeoned to death inside his home near Kampala. Police declared Kato's death an unfortunate consequence of an attempted burglary, but his friends in the community knew better.
http://www.advocate.com/40-under-40-emerging-voices/2014/07/31/40-under-40-frank-mugisha-risks-everything-ugandans-who-cant
One of the great hero's of our time for human rights/equal rights that no one knows. 
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Thanks for posting about him. 
