CLEANSING
Viviane's family beat and lashed her after they discovered explicit text messages she had sent to her girlfriend.
Her aunt and brothers then took her to their village where the local witch doctor forced her to drink concoctions made of chicken blood and inserted hot pepper up her anus, justifying it as a "cleansing" ritual.
Finding a husband who was a church pastor was a chance to clear the family name, she explained. The fact that he had two wives and was more than 30 years older was not a consideration.
"There was no discussion about it," she said, adding that her family received the dowry from the pastor even before they informed her of the arrangement.
"To them, I was like a necklace they sold."
Though rape is a crime in Cameroon, there was no question that such a charge could ever be levelled at her husband, Viviane said.
"A pastor in Cameroon is like a god. God can't rape. And if you accuse him of rape, you're the devil," she said.
While Viviane felt her best option was to flee Cameroon, Frederique spoke out after she was gang raped in 2016 by a taxi driver after leaving an LGBT+ workshop in Yaounde.
The driver stopped to pick up another man and took her to a deserted part of town, where they both raped her, taunting her with accusations of being a lesbian and a witch.
"They kept shouting that I deserved this punishment, that they were correcting me," said the 33-year-old, who has told her story to hundreds of girls in sexual health awareness and LGBT+ workshops in Cameroon.
"If I had reported it, I would've been seen not as a victim but rather as someone who deserved what had happened."
She believes that her decision to speak out saved her life.
"I had a friend who had also been raped, and she felt completely alone, isolated, depressed. She had almost killed herself," Frederique said, pausing to fight back her tears.
"I thought of doing the same ... But I was also so angry. I didn't want other girls to go through this, for them to be a victim like me. I wanted to denounce the perpetrators so that it stops."
It is not easy, she said. Lesbians in Cameroon live with secrecy and caution every day, communicating via code names and frequently changing the public places where they gather.
"We continue to fight on, even though we're doubly discriminated - first as women, secondly as lesbians," she said.
But Engama of CAMFAIDS knows that such precautions cannot guarantee safety, highlighting how 20-year-old Kenfack Tobi Aubin Parfait was beaten to death last month by his older brother who believed he was gay.
"It's a real war waged against us," said Engama, who regularly receives death threats.
"But we will keep fighting until they are tired ... No one will give us freedom. We have to take it."