Ugandan activist Clare Byarugaba told a packed audience in New York that she is not giving up the fight against anti-LGBTIQ laws despite constant threats against her, while she accepted the William D. Zabel Human Rights Award for her advocacy for LGBTIQ rights. Despite being born in a country that she says she loves but doesn’t love her back, she will keep fighting so that those who come after her can have a softer landing. “See, when you love something, you fight for it. You fight to belong. You fight for the freedoms that authoritarian regimes will not give freely. You fight because so many communities all over the world have to fight. I am no different,” she said.