RACHEAL,note-0 28, was a student in Uganda when her family found out she was a lesbian. In her homeland, homosexuality is illegal, carrying a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. But punishment is also meted out by the community, with discrimination and physical beatings rife. Last year, the country’s president Yoweri Museveni said gay people were deviants and called the movement for LGBT+ right a form of “social imperialism”.