About
Ugandan human rights advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex rights. He served as the executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda. In the year 2012, he started the first LGBTI Health Center in Uganda.
Before Fame
In the year 2004, he founded Icebreakers Uganda while he was at university.
Trivia
He won the 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize 2011 for his activism. In the year 2014, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Mugisha has been honored by the UN - Secretary General. Listed in the Advocate Magazine, The Independent, honored by Black Entertainment Television - BET and Mugisha was named by #POWER10: among most Influential Black LGBTQ people in the year 2014.
Family Life
He was raised in a Catholic family. At the young age of 14, he came out to his brother.
Associated With
His work was recognized by Ban Ki-Moon, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry.
