“It’s so exhausting,” says Mugisha, a veteran of the struggle for gay rights in Uganda. Mugisha was friends with David Kato, the co-founder of Smug who was murdered in 2011. “Last week, when I spoke to the 44, I nearly broke down in the middle of the interview. It’s exhausting, but when I see that I am able to support people – for instance the same way I supported these 44 to get out of prison – I feel it is rewarding.” I couldn’t go on any more after talking to a few of them, listening to the violations … and everything they went through when they were in police custody. ![]() T housands of miles away, across the Arabian Sea, Aijaz Ahmad Bund is also trying to do his best for people who have had their lives stripped away. He cannot wait for the return of some semblance of normality so that the community he works with in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir can start to get back on its feet. “That is what I’m dreaming of,” he says, speaking via Zoom from his home in Srinagar. ![]() Head of Sonzal Welfare Trust, a gay and transgender rights NGO, Aijaz works with some of the most marginalised people in this Muslim-majority region of India.
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