David Kato was a militant gay Ugandan. He worked for the organization Sexual Minorities Uganda. Teacher, graduated from an institution of post-apartheid South Africa, Kato had left the profession to devote himself solely to defending the rights of gay and lesbian people in Uganda are threatened by a bill (tabled in Parliament in 2009) which aimed to introduce the penalty death for the crime of homosexual relations - a law delirious, in fact, an abomination in itself, which among other things would have the return of Ugandans in Uganda who had committed homosexual acts in other States.