Pepe Julian Onziema

Pepe Julian Onziema is an activist from Uganda who campaigns for LGBT rights. In 2012 he was named a Global Citizen by the Clinton Global Initiative for his work as a human rights activist. He began his work as a human rights activist in 2003 and has been arrested twice for it. He organized several gay pride parades in Uganda.

Onziema achieved greater notoriety in 2019 when an excerpt from NBS TV's Ugandan TV show Morning Breeze went viral on YouTube . In this program, which was broadcast in December 2012, Onziema was invited as a studio guest to be interviewed about the situation of sexual minorities in Uganda, particularly with regard to a planned law that would provide for the death penalty for homosexuality. While the broadcast was still live, the homosexual activist Pastor Martin Ssempa stormed into the studio with a shopping bag full of fruit and vegetables and insinuated that Onziema was sexually satisfied with such foods in front of the camera.

In 2013 he was shortlisted for the David Kato Vision and Voice Award, an award that honors his murdered friend and colleague David Kato . He had also campaigned for sexual minorities in Uganda.

In 2014, Onziema was interviewed by John Oliver on HBO's Last Week Tonight about the rights of LGBT people. Stonewall voted Onziema 2014 “Hero of the Year”.

Personal

Onziema used to identify as a lesbian and now lives as a trans man in Kampala .

See also

• Homosexuality in Uganda

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daniella Zalcman: When Elephants Fight, the Grass Suffers: Interview with Gay Rights Activist Pepe Julian Onziema. In: Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting . April 14, 2014, accessed July 3, 2014 . 
2. ↑ 2012 Clinton Global Citizen Awards ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Clinton Global Initiative , 2012, accessed July 3, 2014. 
3. ↑ LGBTI - making love a crime , Amnesty International USA, June 25, 2013, accessed on July 3, 2014 (English).
4. ↑ Interview with civil society activist: Pepe Julian Onziemam ( memento of the original from July 4, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Civicus.org, May 1, 2011, accessed July 3, 2014. 
5. ↑ Gregory Warner: Why Gay Pride Celebrations In Uganda Were Discreet. In: WBUR-FM / National Public Radio . August 5, 2013, accessed July 3, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Why Are You Gay? , Know your meme
7. ↑ Ugandan TransMan Pepe Onziema Calls Out Hatefull Pastor , Know your Meme
8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Jami Smith: WATCH: John Oliver Brilliantly Exposes the US-UK Influence on Uganda's Antigay Law. In: The Advocate . June 30, 2014, accessed July 3, 2014 . 
10. ↑ Alexandra Topping: Stonewall's hero of the year award goes to Pepe Julian Onziema. In: The Guardian . November 7, 2014, accessed November 11, 2014 . 
11. ^ ^{A b} Glenna Gordon: Being Gay in Uganda: One Couple's Story. In: Time . March 8, 2010, accessed July 3, 2014 . 
12. ^ Pepe Julian Onziema: Living proudly in face of Uganda's anti-gay bill. In: CNN.com . January 25, 2013, accessed July 3, 2014 .