And in Stockholm, Sweden, the Right Livelihood Award, known as the alternative Nobel Prize, has been awarded to four people: Ugandan LGBT rights activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Italian surgeon Gino Strada and Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony de Brum. At the Pride Parade in New York City this year, Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera spoke about the repression the LGBT community faces in Uganda, as well as the role U.S. missionaries have played in sowing violence against gay, lesbian and transgender people in her country.

Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera: “Today in Uganda, this crowd would be broken down by police. Our gatherings have been broken down by the government. And we are also suffering because of the American evangelicals that have come and planted homophobia and caused a panic in our society. And we are not just sitting, we are suing them here in America, because this must stop. They must not go around the world spreading hate, that they failed to plant here in your country.”