Kalende is a self-described "preacher's kid" and journalist who left her career at the Ugandan newspaper Daily Monitor in 2007 to focus on LGBT activism, according to a 2015 Daily Xtra profile, going on to work with organizations such as Freedom and Roam Uganda, Sexual Minorities Uganda, and the Dignity Initiative. She left the country for Canada as a refugee in 2015, following the 2014 passage of legislation to criminalize homosexual behavior.

"Val Kalende is here to stay," declared the headline of the profile, which notes that she identified as "genderqueer" and preferred to be referenced with the pronoun "they."

On Tuesday, however, Edge reported that Kalende is a changed woman who is even getting married, announcing the news live on Uganda's Salt TV.

"I joined lesbianism right after Makerere University. I'm born of Christian parents. All of them cut their ties with me for being gay. I became an orphan," she explained, according to Edge's English translation of her remarks. But "I became rebellious. We always wondered why the world forced us to become girls who do not love men ... Right now, I have no peace of mind. I sometimes break down and cry wondering why am like this. I'm now back home and have been saved."

"Not sure how to do this or if I have to. It's draining. But I know people have questions and they mean well," Kalende elaborated on Facebook, according the Monitor. "I'd be glad to respond to questions concerning what I have learned about the sin of same-sex attraction and the mystery that surrounds the homosexual lifestyle, especially for Christians, parents and people with family members or friends who struggle with same-sex attractions"...

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