# Frank Mugisha
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frank mugisha is a Ugandan LGBT advocate and Executive Director of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), who has won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize 2011 for his activism. Mugisha is one of the most prominent advocates for LGBT rights in Uganda.
== Biography ==
Mugisha was born in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda.
LGBTQ+ Ugandans fight for survival
About two weeks ago, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni approved one of the world's toughest anti-LGBTQ laws, despite the U.S. government and the United Nations calling the legislation a violation of universal human rights. Advocates on the ground have called it state-sponsored homophobia and trans…
LGBTQI+ rights in Africa
Significant strides have been made across the globe in recognising and upholding the rights of sexual minorities, but despite these successes, the past year has also seen major setbacks when it comes to LGBTQI+ rights. This episode talks to human rights defenders from across the African continent, …
How American Radicalism Inspired the Most Homophobic Law on Earth
This year, Uganda enacted one of the harshest anti-LGBT+ laws in the world, making homosexuality punishable by death. Ugandan Human Rights activist Dr. Frank Mugisha joins Ray Suarez to share how American Christian evangelicals radicalized the East African country, and how the fight for human right…
Heart and Soul: Follow God, not the people
Brought up in a devout Catholic family in the suburbs of Kampala, Frank Mugisha knew that something was different about him even as a small boy. He was gay, although in those days he had no words for it. Growing up, he was subjected to conversion therapy, and his family took him to traditional heal…
Uganda’s Legalized Persecution of LGBTQ+ / Personal & Public Health Threats
Recorded in June 2023, Yvette Raphael and Ben Plumley catch up with Dr. Frank Mugisha, a leading Ugandan advocate at the forefront of the fight against the country’s persecution of the LGBTQ+ community. After the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill became law in Uganda, Frank explains the direct threats…
Frank Mugisha on Uganda's Anti Homosexuality Act of 2023
On this episode of the Outright Proud Podcast, we're joined by a leading voice in the fight for LGBTQ rights in Uganda, one of Time's 100 most influential people of 2024, and executive director at Sexual Minorities Uganda - advocate Frank Mugisha. Listen in as we scrutinize Uganda's Anti-Homosexual…
World Reacts to Trump
As I spent time abroad over the past few months in the lead-up to the American presidential election, I was struck by how often news and politics from back home seemed to be on the minds of all the locals I met. It’s like no matter how far away I went, it was impossible to escape! On this episode I…
"People are really panicking" : Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Casts a Shadow Across Africa
Thus far, 2026 has been a very difficult year for LGBTQ rights in Africa. Homosexuality is illegal in 31 countries on the African continent, representing half of the continent’s states, and in recent years, the adoption of anti-LGBTQ laws has increased dramatically.
Last month, Ghana’s parliament …
Frank Mugisha and Lady Phyll – Live at Black Tech Fest 2021
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah and Frank Mugisha are two powerhouse LGBTQ human rights activists. Phyll, who has been a guest on the show before, is the co-founder and executive director of UK Black Pride, Europe’s largest pride celebration for LGBTQ people of colour, and the executive director of Kaleidoscope…
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