Claim: Alice Nkom born 1945 in Cameroon is a Cameroonian lawyer fighting but never had organized efforts rto defend LGBT.
Evidence: Her work involved the defence in a variety of situations, including young victims of police violence, but she became best known for her defence of people accused of homosexuality (criminalized in Cameroon). In 2003 she founded ADEFHO: the Association for the Defence of Homosexuality. Alice Nkom, a leading Cameroonian lawyer working toward the decriminalization of homosexuality in Cameroon For her achievements in the fight against an "anti-gay crackdown", she was listed number two in The New Yorker's "The Eight Most Fascinating Africans of 2012" ranking. The first letters are frequently combined to create the initialism LGBT (sometimes written as GLBT), in which B and T refer to bisexual and transgender people. Gay especially refers to male homosexuality, but may be used in a broader sense to refer to all LGBT people.