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A Group of Ugandans Are Shattering Stigma with the Country’s First LGBT Zine

Every day for nearly a week straight at the start of last December, Vincent and a group of volunteers traveled to a friend’s printing shop in Kampala, Uganda right before it closed at 6:00 PM. They’d wait from a close distance as the last group of customers trickled out and disappeared down the street. Once clear, they’d file in. The shopkeeper would hand off the keys and leave. The shutters would be drawn, and for the next 12 hours they’d work to print thousands of copies of what is now one of the most important pieces of literature in Uganda’s LGBT history.

"The friend who runs that shop risked his business to help us," said Vincent, who did not give his last name. "But it was important that we did it at night, because no one could see us. We didn’t want anything to happen."

It’s called Bombastic magazine, and within its pages are dozens of stories from Uganda’s socially, legally, and often violently oppressed sexual minority communities. In one story, a woman recalls getting fired after concerns surfaced in her office that she might be a lesbian because she declined sexual advances from her boss. Shortly after the incident, she saw her name printed in an anti-gay tabloid. On another page, a transgender lesbian describes the onset of a deep depression when her body started to grow breasts.

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