Produced in partnership with American Jewish World Service.

While Ugandan politicians are still debating whether or not to pass an anti-gay law that would not only make homosexual acts punishable by death, but also compel citizens to report suspected homosexual activity to the police, the members of Uganda's LGBTQ community continue to face death, violence and widespread discrimination. In February 2013, I was commissioned by AJWS to document the daily life of LGBTQ activists living and working in Kampala, who oscillated between outrage and fear, silence and bliss. Some of the members of Transgender Equality Uganda and Freedom and Roam Uganda whom I met were publicly out, while others were forced to hide in straight society's shadows for fear of being attacked, losing their job or getting kicked out of their house.

After discussing with both organization's members how to represent their diverse forms of self-identity, self-expression and varying levels of outness; and in part because popular local tabloids have taken to scourging the internet for photographs of Uganda's LGBTQ community to be used in published outings; we decided to take the safest approach and mask all of their identities in shadow and quiet.