‘When I told my mother I was gay, she tried to have me arrested!’

Diane Bakuraira, 33, lives in Uganda and knew she was gay at the age of 10. When she eventually told her mother of her sexuality, she called the police

Diane Bakuraira, 33, was just 10 years old when she first began to develop feelings for her female classmates.

But when, years later, Diane plucked up the courage to tell her mother about her sexuality, the response was worse than she could ever have imagined.

‘I am still struggling to make her understand me,’ explains the Ugandan human rights activist, ‘but it is still very hard. At one point, she called the police to come and arrest me and she has said she wants to disown me.

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