Val Kalende, a popular Ugandan LGBT activist, has declared on national TV that she is no longer a lesbian and is withdrawing from further involvement in LGBT activism. Kalende is widely known for her LGBT advocacy work both within and outside Uganda. In 2005, she started working with Freedom and Roam Uganda, an LGBT rights organization in Uganda. Mirakel Rakkaus Hossy, a Uganda-based human rights activist and acquaintance of Kalende, blamed her decision on the lack of unity amongst LGBT activists in Uganda. There is so much hate within the Ugandan LGBTI community, the infighting, And fellow activists saying lies about one another .