Freedom Spectrum of East Africa (FSEA) is a grassroots initiative supporting LGBTQ+ people facing persecution in East Africa. We provide emergency shelter, food, medical care, and safe relocation for those in danger. Our mission is simple: to protect lives, restore dignity, and build hope for a future where every LGBTQ+ person can live freely and without fear. Visit our website https://sites.google.com/view/freedom-spectrum-east-africa/home
Hello, I hope you’re fine, please help and support lgbtiqa people from East Africa. Freedom Spectrum of East Africa supports homeless lgbtiqa people from all corners of East Africa, provides food, medicine, safe and clean water, and all other basic human needs. We currently have many sick friends and so we need to pay the hospital bills. Please donate to our donation link below
Emergency medical support for LGBTQI+ refugees in East Africa. Help fund urgent surgery, hospital care, and emergency response for displaced
Please help and donate so that we can buy food medicine 💊
This is Making Queer History's 10th Pride season! This project has expanded so much from the one-person show that started it all. There is now a podcast, a series of articles, a public domain library, a writing group, and regular sharing of good queer news. With all of this bustling around, I always hope that the value of this project is self evident. I expect that everyone will concurrently realize that our Patreon is a great place to be and sign up.
But then I remember myself, and my own nature of forgetting to support good things until I am reminded, and I feel a little silly.
So this is your reminder! Making Queer History is doing fantastic things, and you should become a part of that journey! Check out our Patreon, can't wait to meet more of you!
We’re a grassroots initiative led by displaced LGBTQIA+ people in East Africa located in South Sudan (Gorom & Juba) and Kenya (Kakuma) committed to protecting human dignity, challenging discrimination, and creating a future where every queer person can live freely, proudly, and without fear. 
We provide emergency shelter, protection, HIV/AIDS support, and long-term help for those fleeing violence and persecution. Currently, our community includes nearly 470 LGBTQIA+ refugees, including children. 
🌍 Why we need hope:
“We were LGBTIQA+ refugees in Kakuma… already running from persecution”
“We moved to Gorom believing it would be safer. But… local people threaten to kill us simply because of who we are.”
These are the harsh realities facing people like Malik, one of our organizers. 
💛 How you can help:
• Donate: Support us via our GoFundMe page, every contribution helps fund emergency relief, safety, housing, medical care, and long-term support. 
• Volunteer: We need skills in website building, planning, accounting, budgeting, and more. If you can help, reach out at [email protected].
Together, we can build a world where being LGBTQIA+ isn’t a crime, a risk, or a source of shame but simply part of being human. Let’s make that future possible. 💪✨
I and my partner coordinated this zine and we have a handful of really wonderful artists in this zine as well as direct messages from my friends and other community members in South Sudan.
Please check out the zine and spread the word!! You can make a huge difference in my friends' life with just a little bit of love.
Today is international asexuality day. as Freedom Spectrum of East Africa, please support us through our website so that you change the lives of lgbtiqa+ people in East Africa
Emergency medical support for LGBTQI+ refugees in East Africa. Help fund urgent surgery, hospital care, and emergency response for displaced
I have happy news today! Mugambe joined the Freedom Spectrum of East Africa Weekly Check-in meeting this morning! He's out of the hospital feeling better.
And there's more! Here's what we accomplished this year:
- We formed a team of four community organizers in three East African countries and three volunteers in the US and Denmark and established a regular weekly meeting with rotating moderators.
- We chose our name, wrote our mission statement, launched our website and were aided in graphic design by my amazing friend Ashley Kenawell who worked with our team to develop our logo and social media kit.
- We decided to form a Non Profit Corporation in Pennsylvania and hired a registered agent to handle the mail and be our official mailing address.
- We provided emergency medical support to at least six community members -- some resulting from years of stress and hunger, others resulting from physical attacks.
Before the year is out, I intend to file our Articles of Incorporation through our registered agent. That will be the start of a long road of applying for our 501(c) 3 status. If this work sounds meaningful to you, please start thinking about your capacity to join our board next year or volunteering your skills.
I'll leave you with the mantra that's been in my mind all year. It comes from the walls of LuLu's Noodles, a place I loved to eat at when I was in college that is sadly no more: Act Locally. Think Globally. Eat Noodles.
Hello, Freedom Spectrum of East Africa (FSEA) is a grassroots initiative supporting LGBTQ+ people facing persecution in East Africa. We provide emergency shelter, food, medical care, and safe relocation for those in danger. Our mission is simple: to protect lives, restore dignity, and build hope for a future where every LGBTQ+ person can live freely and without fear. Visit our website https://sites.google.com/view/freedom-spectrum-east-africa/home.
Please donate to our work in this coming festive season. We would be happy to celebrate Christmas and new year as lgbtiqa people because it has not been easy this year. We have lost some of the friends in our groups. They have been killed because of their gender identification. Donate $1,5,10,20,50,100,200,500,1000 etc for lgbtiqa support.
Donate to help 429 LGBTQ+ refugees establish a safe home for their commun… Anker Emil Novak-Tot needs your support for Support Freedom Spect
I’m reaching out on behalf of a dear friend who is currently facing a serious medical emergency. He is gay and, due to the environment he lives in, doesn’t have the support systems many others might have during a crisis.
He has been diagnosed with a heart problem and is currently in the hospital. We have already managed to raise $750, but there is still an outstanding balance of $700 that must be cleared for him to continue receiving treatment.
On top of this, he needs weekly medical check-ups and $100 worth of medicine each week to remain stable.
Any support whether financial assistance, sharing this post, or connecting us with anyone who can help would mean the world right now. Even small contributions make a real difference.
Gofundme
Donate to help 429 LGBTQ+ refugees establish a safe home for their commun… Anker Emil Novak-Tot needs your support for Support Freedom Spect
Thank you so much for your compassion and solidarity. ❤️🙏
Please checkout our website
Above: A powerful moment captured at the refugee camp in Kenya, before some of our community members relocated to South Sudan. Around 100 LG
I’m reaching out on behalf of a dear friend who is currently facing a serious medical emergency. He is gay and, due to the environment he lives in, doesn’t have the support systems many others might have during a crisis.
He has been diagnosed with a heart problem and is currently in the hospital. We have already managed to raise $750, but there is still an outstanding balance of $700 that must be cleared for him to continue receiving treatment.
On top of this, he needs weekly medical check-ups and $100 worth of medicine each week to remain stable.
Any support whether financial assistance, sharing this post, or connecting us with anyone who can help would mean the world right now. Even small contributions make a real difference.
Gofundme
Donate to help 429 LGBTQ+ refugees establish a safe home for their commun… Anker Emil Novak-Tot needs your support for Support Freedom Spect
Thank you so much for your compassion and solidarity. ❤️🙏
Please checkout our website
Above: A powerful moment captured at the refugee camp in Kenya, before some of our community members relocated to South Sudan. Around 100 LG
🌈 Queer Life in South Sudan: Silence, Survival, and the Fight to Be See
South Sudan is the youngest nation in the world a country born from struggle, resilience, and the hope for freedom. But for LGBTIQA people living within its borders, that promise of freedom remains painfully out of reach.
This is a story of invisibility, resistance, and the quiet bravery of queer people who wake up each day in a place where simply existing is treated as a crime.
🏳️🌈 1. The Legal Landscape: Criminalization as a Constant Threat
In South Sudan, same-sex relationships are illegal under the Penal Code Act of 2008. The law uses vague colonial-era language like “unnatural offences,” but the consequences are clear: up to 10 years in prison for consensual same-sex intimacy.
This isn’t just a technicality. It is a weapon a way to justify harassment, violence, and the idea that queer people are “outsiders” in their own country.
There is also a specific law criminalizing “men dressing in the fashion of a woman,” which targets trans women, gender-nonconforming people, and anyone who dares to express themselves freely.
Even though actual court prosecutions are rare, the laws work as a shadow over people’s lives. Their purpose is not to punish openly but to silence.
🏳️⚧️ 2. Social Stigma: The Weight of Being Unseen
The law is only one piece of the oppression.
The everyday reality for many queer people in South Sudan is shaped by cultural stigma, deep-rooted conservatism, and fear.
• Families may expel or “discipline” queer relatives.
• Communities gossip, threaten, or ostracize.
• Religious leaders often call homosexuality immoral.
• Public officials speak of “zero tolerance” as if queer people are enemies of the nation.
This creates a climate where people cannot speak, cannot seek help, cannot live publicly.
Queer people are often isolated physically, emotionally, and socially because revealing the truth of who they are could cost them their safety, their family, or even their life.
🪬 3. The Hidden Reality in Refugee Camps
For some LGBTIQA people, fleeing their community doesn’t end the danger.
In refugee camps including camps in and around South Sudan queer refugees face:
• harassment from other residents
• violence and threats in shared shelters
• denial of medical care
• pressure from camp authorities to remain silent
Some camps have no system in place to protect vulnerable queer individuals.
There are cases where gay men, lesbians, and trans people have been beaten, chased, or even forced to hide their identities from humanitarian workers to avoid retaliation.
Instead of being places of refuge, many camps become places where danger multiplies.
💔 4. The Emotional Cost of Being Queer in South Sudan
Living in a society where your identity is criminalized takes a deep emotional toll.
People carry:
• the fear of being discovered
• the trauma of previous attacks
• the loneliness of having nobody safe to trust
• the exhaustion of hiding constantly
• the grief of watching others suffer the same pain
Many queer South Sudanese live with a sense of invisibility as if the world has forgotten them, as if their existence is too dangerous to acknowledge publicly.
But invisibility is not the same as absence.
Queer people are there. They have always been there.
And they deserve to be seen.
🔥 5. The Resilience Nobody Talks About
Despite the dangers, LGBTIQA South Sudanese people are not passive victims. They are survivors, creators, and fighters.
They build quiet networks of support.
They form friendships that become lifelines.
They share safe houses, coded language, and hidden meeting spaces.
They listen to each other’s stories in whispered conversations small acts of solidarity that become acts of resistance.
Every time someone chooses to love in a place that forbids it, that is resistance.
Every time someone supports a queer friend in secret, that is resistance.
Every time someone refuses to let fear define their identity, that is resistance.
🥀 6. The Cost of Silence, and Why Speaking Matters
People often ask:
“Why talk about this? Why post about queer South Sudanese lives?”
Because silence kills.
Because lack of visibility allows violence to continue without accountability.
Because queer people in South Sudan deserve global solidarity, awareness, and protection.
Talking about this issue does not endanger them — it shines a light on a reality many people don’t want to acknowledge. The more the world knows, the more pressure grows for safety, inclusion, and change.
🌍 7. The Hope for a Better Future
Change is slow, but it is possible.
Around the world, many countries once used the same colonial anti-LGBT laws that South Sudan still enforces.
And one by one, many of them have reformed, repealed, or rejected those laws.
Progress begins with:
• education
• visibility
• conversations
• international support
• and the bravery of those living the reality every day
Queer South Sudanese people are already imagining a better future one where they don’t have to hide or live in fear.
They deserve a country that sees them as citizens, not criminals.
As humans, not problems.
As valuable, beautiful lives deserving dignity.
🌈🌿 8. A Call to Solidarity
If you are reading this:
• Share this post.
• Talk about queer South Sudanese people.
• Support LGBTQ+ refugee organizations.
• Believe the stories of those who speak out.
• Amplify voices that are silenced at home.
Visibility is not enough, but it is a beginning.
And every time we speak, we make the world a little safer for those who cannot speak openly yet.
❤️🖤💚 9. To Queer People in South Sudan (if any of you ever see this)
You are not alone.
Your life matters.
Your identity is valid.
Your existence is not a crime it is courage.
There is a world outside that sees you, loves you, and wants you to survive.
Stay safe. Stay strong. Stay yourself. Checkout our website below contact the team and volunteer to this wonderful organisation.
Above: A powerful moment captured at the refugee camp in Kenya, before some of our community members relocated to South Sudan. Around 100 LG
Hello friends, we have an ongoing zine project as a way of raising awareness about lgbtiqa being persecuted in the East African camps. Please share to artists you know
We Build a Home - call for submissions Call for submissions for illustrations and short comics of max. 3 pages* about stories of what a hom
We’re a grassroots initiative led by displaced LGBTQIA+ people in East Africa located in South Sudan (Gorom & Juba) and Kenya (Kakuma) committed to protecting human dignity, challenging discrimination, and creating a future where every queer person can live freely, proudly, and without fear. 
We provide emergency shelter, protection, HIV/AIDS support, and long-term help for those fleeing violence and persecution. Currently, our community includes nearly 470 LGBTQIA+ refugees, including children. 
🌍 Why we need hope:
“We were LGBTIQA+ refugees in Kakuma… already running from persecution”
“We moved to Gorom believing it would be safer. But… local people threaten to kill us simply because of who we are.”
These are the harsh realities facing people like Malik, one of our organizers. 
💛 How you can help:
• Donate: Support us via our GoFundMe page, every contribution helps fund emergency relief, safety, housing, medical care, and long-term support. 
• Volunteer: We need skills in website building, planning, accounting, budgeting, and more. If you can help, reach out at [email protected].
Together, we can build a world where being LGBTQIA+ isn’t a crime, a risk, or a source of shame but simply part of being human. Let’s make that future possible. 💪✨
We’re a grassroots initiative led by displaced LGBTQIA+ people in East Africa located in South Sudan (Gorom & Juba) and Kenya (Kakuma) committed to protecting human dignity, challenging discrimination, and creating a future where every queer person can live freely, proudly, and without fear. 
We provide emergency shelter, protection, HIV/AIDS support, and long-term help for those fleeing violence and persecution. Currently, our community includes nearly 470 LGBTQIA+ refugees, including children. 
🌍 Why we need hope:
“We were LGBTIQA+ refugees in Kakuma… already running from persecution”
“We moved to Gorom believing it would be safer. But… local people threaten to kill us simply because of who we are.”
These are the harsh realities facing people like Malik, one of our organizers. 
💛 How you can help:
• Donate: Support us via our GoFundMe page, every contribution helps fund emergency relief, safety, housing, medical care, and long-term support. 
• Volunteer: We need skills in website building, planning, accounting, budgeting, and more. If you can help, reach out at [email protected].
Together, we can build a world where being LGBTQIA+ isn’t a crime, a risk, or a source of shame but simply part of being human. Let’s make that future possible. 💪✨
