Growing Up LGBT In East Africa

None on Record is a digital media organization that works to document stories from LGBT communities on the Continent and throughout the Diaspora. Founded in 2006 by Selly Thiam, herself a Senegalese lesbian living in the U.S., the project began as a way of collecting oral histories of LGBT Africans. The organization previously produced a series focused on LGBT Africans seeking asylum in the UK, and in October 2015 they have plans to host a three-day cultural arts festival in Nairobi.What do you think?

Now, for International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia today, None on Record conducted a series of interviews with individuals in Nairobi about growing up LGBT in East Africa. In the collection of intimate clips below, participants ranging from an executive chef and a Legal Officer at Kenya’s National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission to the Executive Coordinator of the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya and Ugandan transgender activist and scientist Cleopatra Kambugu, share their stories of coming out and messages for African LGBT youth. We spoke with Thiam over email about the series and her work collecting stories from LGBT communities throughout the Continent and the Diaspora.





More video stories at link: http://www.okayafrica.com/news/lgbt-africa-none-on-record-international-day-against-homophobia-and-transphobia-video-series/