Introduction GALZ has over the years experienced unjustified raids from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and other armed but unidentified individuals. This is despite its legal recognition under Zimbabwean law as an association or a universitas. The police have on different occasions raided offices of GALZ as well as events hosted by the organisation. In the year 2012, the ZRP carried out two raids in two weeks, arresting, harassing and assaulting members of GALZ. These raids seemed to be fuelled in part by the state-sanctioned homophobic utterances made by politicians. Many of the utterances have been unjustified and signify the continued and sustained efforts by the state to clampdown on organisations that are playing an important role of empowering citizens to be more informed and to seek and demand justice. The 2012 raids were not the first. In May 2010, the GALZ offices were raided, and computers and publications were confiscated. It would take a very long court case before these things were returned. GALZ employees and members frequently get detained or arrested, the most recent and significant of such experience having occurred on the 11th of August 2012 when 42 got arrested. Besides these raids being an attempt to derail GALZ organisational and programmatic efforts, they have had some intended and unintended consequences. Thus the assessment sought to examine the impact of the raids on various components of GALZ programs, mainly focusing on mobilisation, sensitisation, affiliation, provision and uptake of its services. 6 An Assessment of the impact of state sanctioned and unsanctioned raids on GALZ premises and gatherings