Meet the team
Rev’d Jide Macaulay
(Founder & CEO)
Reverend Jide Macaulay is the founding Pastor and CEO of House Of Rainbow CIC. Openly gay British-Nigerian born in London, a Christian minister since 1998, a dynamic and an inspirational speaker, author, poet, pastor and preacher, HIV Positive Activist, holds a degree in Law, masters degree in Theology and Post-graduate certificate in Pastoral Theology. Jide focuses his ministry on inclusion and reconciliation of sexuality, spirituality and human rights. Currently Board of Trustee at Kaleidoscope Trust UK, Chairperson INERELA+ Europe, Patron at ReportOut, nOSCARS Award winner 2014, 2017, 2018, Volunteer Chaplain at Mildmay Hospital and a Trained Volunteer Champion at Afruca Children's Charity.
Imale Ndhlovu
(Programme Co-ordinator & Board of Directors)
Imale is a queer Zambian content creator and explores themes of faith, identity, mental health, sexuality. Utilising mythology, personal experience and imagination to dissect, critique, and create within a landscape that solemnly acknowledges the contributions and work of Black Queer Womxn. As a programme coordinator Imale ensures programs we provide at House of Rainbow are at a high standard and well facilitated.
Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi
(Board of Directors)
Adebayo [He/Him] is a PhD candidate at Warwick Sociology with a focus on the intersectional politics of Queer activism and feminism in Africa, along with principles of postcolonial and Black Queer theory. He has a myriad of personal and professional experiences that inform his political position to ‘exist to resist’. He is particularly interested in challenging normative structures that prove to be violent for Black Queer people. He has a background in gender and international development, which allows invoking a gendered lens to expose the ignoble practices that guide development practice in non- Western nations. This has developed an interest in international law and policy analysis to understand their impacts on African States. With experiences in conducting social research on Queer African people, he hopes to provide informed advice and interdisciplinary perspectives to the research that is carried out at House of Rainbow.
Helen Adeola
(Board of Directors)
Helen is a Nigerian-Italian Queer woman advocating for equality of the marginalised sexual minorities in Africa focusing on normalisation of queer stories and allyship-building. She is also Event coordinator for Living Free UK, a community interest organisation focusing on validating lived experiences of queer Africans. Her hope is to support works of activism such as the ones of House of Rainbow and Living Free, get the reach they deserve to uplift struggling LGBTQIA+ individuals and their reconciling families. She has also recently created a freelance animation brand focused on queer experiences, by the name of Ife Dogba, which from Yoruba loosely translates to 'Love is equal' (@ife_dogba).
Daniel Asaya
(Board of Directors)
Daniel Asaya aka Dan Yomi joined House of Rainbow as Director since June 2018. He is also the Founder and Director of Living Free UK, an organisation that supports & validates the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ Africans, people seeking asylum & refugees. Prior to this, he served as the 1st Black
President at the Students’ Union at Bournemouth University (SUBU) and Chair of the Board of Trustees for SUBU. Dan currently works full time as Recruitment Consultant.
Cathy Bird
(Board of Directors)
Cathy is a Coach and Spiritual Director and an experienced writer of liturgy and hymns. In 2017 she was proud to publish her first book, ‘The Divine Heart of Darkness: Finding God in the
Shadows’ (Sacristy Press). She loves to swim, has recently taken up Yoga and is an avid support of West Ham Utd. Having previously worked in social policy and research in the voluntary sector, Cathy was ordained as a Minister in the Methodist Church in 1997. Although a Londoner, she is currently living and working in Greater Manchester where she serves as Superintendent of the Methodist Church in Stockport. She has a daughter, Megan who is a jazz singer based in London.
Elsa Da Silva
(Board of Directors)
Elsa da Silva is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach graduated from the Integrative Nutrition School in New York and a member of House Of Rainbow, a queer organisation helping people reconciling faith and sexuality. She’s very keen in helping others creating a mindful and empowering lifestyle.
Anthony Oluoch
(Board of Directors)
Anthony Oluoch is the former Program Manager at Pan Africa ILGA in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he led the team in the execution of what was, at the time, the biggest LGBTI conference in the continent. He also worked as the Executive Director of Gay Kenya Trust, an organisation that works towards equality and non-discrimination for all including gay and lesbian individuals in Kenya. As a lawyer, he has previously worked as the Legal and Human Rights Officer at the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya where he was instrumental in designing and initiating the implementation of what was then a strategy towards decriminalisation of adult consensual same-sex conduct. He sat in the advisory panel of the Queen's Young Leaders Award and the board of the IDAHOT Committee. He assists organisations in their strategic planning sessions, most recently, the Pan Africa ILGA 2019 – 2022 strategic plan. He is the host of the mental health podcast, Padded Cell Podcast.