Nick Mwaluko

Fire burns, true, but fire also purifies. Count my words as fire, burning embers that purify an unspeakable truth spoken at last.

On 24 July 2011, Kelebohile Nkhereanye and Renee Boyd confidently walked up a flight of stairs inside Brooklyn’s Municipal Building City Hall on a sweltering Sunday morning.

Young, strong, sharp, reality’s electric in your present tense – this is who you are before the phone rings:

‘Dead? Murdered, who was?’

Kato was a teacher who eventually quit his job to focus all his attention on Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), a non-governmental organisation based in Uganda’s capital Kampala that advocates for the protection of Uganda’s gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people.