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Aug 06, 1985 Nairobi, Kenya 38 years old
LGBTI and Sex Work Activist, Researcher, Consultant and Journalist
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About Denis Nzioka
- Denis Nzioka is a sexual, and gender minority activist, and journalist with a particular focus on LGBTIQ+ and Sex Worker communities in Kenya, and in Africa.
- In his work, he has consulted for both regional and international organisations that focus on health, human rights, movement building, grant-making, and advocacy.
- A pioneer, he ran, albeit covertly, Kenya's first safe house for LGBTIQ persons in 2009.
- At the same time, he was the first Kenyan to publicly come out on national TV.
- Since then, his articles, and blogs have been featured by various media across the world. He also started the first - and only - LGBTI magazine in Kenya, Identity Kenya, as well as was the first, in the continent, and globally, in 2014, to unveil an exclusive LGBTIQ news App.
- In 2011, he co-edited Gay Kenya's book 'My Way, Your Way or the Rights Way' and has published an anthology book of Kenyan allies speaking out for LGBTIQ rights, titled Rafiki Zetu.
- Keen on grass root organising, he has been instrumental in the formation of several organisations in Kenya that focus on queer and sex worker's rights, while supporting regional organising.
- This has seen him being often consulted to various LGBTI & sex work related national and international policy papers.
- He was named as one of the World's Top 10 Tweeters on Sexuality and Development by The Guardian's Global Development Professional Networks, awarded the Sauti Journalist award, and honoured him with the African Feather Award in 2018. Widely travelled, Denis Nzioka is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Openly gay, he is a single Dad. Nzioka, who is openly gay, was a 2013 Kenyan Presidential candidate.
