7 October 2013 — Trans Musician Named as UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador, Angola

Trans Angolan musician, Titica, was made a UNAIDS National Goodwill Ambassador on 7 October 2013. 

Titica is a pioneer in a local music genre called ‘kuduro’, and even performed for the then Angolan President, José Eduardo dos Santos. Her appointment as UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador came at a time when many acknowledged that Angola was moving from being a rigid anti-LGBTIQ+ state to one where social recognition and acceptance of the presence of transgender persons such as Titica were acknowledged, even while the State’s penal code still outlawed homosexuality.

June 2025: Titica’s open letter about the discrimination and transphobia she’s been a victim of

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