Lloyd Rugara has led a life of having worn multiple hats including; Activist and Lobbyist, Media voice for MSM, Peer Educator, Peer Team Leader, Helpline Junior Counsellor, Human Rights Defender, Board Member, Staff Representative within Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) and Sisonke.

With matric, Lloyd acquired a Peer Education Training Certificate, Certificate in HIV Counselling and Finger Prick Testing, a programme ran in partnership with Stellenbosch University and Counselling Skills, United Nations and African Human Rights System in partnership with University of Pretoria.

The founder of Foreign Men, a support group for foreign male sex workers started at Sisonke as a peer educator and has since became a Steering Committee member of Asijiki Coalition, a coalition of organisations fighting for the decriminalization of sex work in South Africa. He is also representing Sisonke as a Steering Committee member at KP Reach Communications Working Group.