PRIDE SHOULD GO BACK TO BEING A PROTEST

Pride didn’t start with a rainbow. It started with a riot. And in 2025, we must ask: what are we still celebrating when our rights are under legislative siege?
In Uganda and Ghana, the Anti-Homosexuality Acts are not just laws, they are weapons. Polished with morality, wielded with impunity. They don’t just silence, they hunt, humiliate, and erase. And in this erasure, LBTQ women are hit twice: first by homophobia, then by patriarchy.

Where do queer women go when the shelters are not safe for “women like us”? Who holds space for us when our voices are not just ignored, but criminalized? When schools, clinics, churches, and even feminist movements shut the door, where is our Pride supposed to live?
This is not a month of parades for us. It’s a month of protest. Of surviving systems designed to forget us. Of demanding that international allies stop sipping rainbow cocktails and start showing up. By reminding the world that lesbian, bisexual, trans, and queer African women are not a footnote in LGBTQ+ history we are the frontline.
So yes, wear the colors. But also ask: What are you doing for the lesbian woman in Accra who was evicted last night? For the trans man in Kampala denied health care today? For the bisexual woman whose own family turned her in?

At QuestPro-Women Foundation, we choose resistance. We choose to speak, even when it’s dangerous. Because Pride, for us, is not a party. It’s proof that we’re still here.
Until we are free all of us Pride must be a protest.