Clare Byarugaba is a Ugandan LGBT activist in Kampala who has spoken out against the government's anti-LGBT rhetoric.[1] She is the co-coordinator of the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law.[2] In 2013, Byarugaba was set to start a Kampala chapter of PFLAG to support relatives of LGBT persons in a country whose president banned homosexuality.[1] After this ban, she was outed by a national tabloid that put her face on its cover, threatening her life.[3] In 2014, Byarugaba joined the Women in the World summit to share her personal story through the organization's mission to give women voice and agency.[3] Byarugaba was the 2014 Oak Fellow with the Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights at Colby College.