Richard Akon found a magaze for gay men Nigeria, left him vulnerable a place where homophobia is rife. Akon wr for CNN, talkg for the first time about beg btally attacked and havg to flee the untry.
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In 2005, when Mikael Chwuma Owunna was 15 years old, he me out as gay on MySpace. But when he went home to Nigeria for the holidays as a teenager, a prits performed several forced exorcisms to "wash the 'gay vil' out, " he reunts now the preface for his new book, Limls Ains.
For years, he says, he felt as if his gay and Ain inti were at odds wh each other. Jt last week, police Uganda arrted a group of 16 LGBTQ activists on spicn of homosexualy. Her fay accepts her sexualy, which Owunna says challeng the assumptn that all Ain fai are homophobic or would reject their children for beg LGBTQ.
In 2017, I started A Nasty Boy magaze to validate and affirm the liv and experienc of gay men Nigeria. I wanted to start meangful nversatns around genr norms and masculy that speak specifilly to our reali as gay men wh a culture that is poisonoly patriarchal and eply homophobic.
OPN: NIGERIA IS A LD-BLOOD UNTRY FOR GAY MEN – I HAVE THE SRS TO PROVE
Agast a backdrop of adly anti-gay vlence, A Nasty Boy dared to be a haven for gay men Nigeria and, no time, received ternatnal attentn through CNN, BBC, The Guardian, The Enomist, Vogue, and others. They acced me of beg gay and “spreadg a gay agenda, ” as they pummeled me; each punch was an asslt on who I was.
They took my phone, forced me to unlock , and found further proof of my homosexualy. And yet, even this gome attack pal parison to the fatal btaly many Nigerian gay men have too often experienced the form of lynchgs or pillory wh tir before they’re set on fire and burnt alive—not for terrorism or worse, but for beg gay, for beg human, a sperately homophobic untry.
In Nigeria, gay men are portrayed as ncers eatg eply to the fabric of society—tumors that mt be oblerated. The feral Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibn) Act of 2014 says anyone found guilty of homosexualy fac up to 14 years prison. A 2013 PewGlobal rearch suggts 98% of Nigerians believe homosexualy should not be accepted by society.