How do Nigerian gay and bisexual men pe? This is what they told

Contents:

• NIGERIANS RANKED THIRD HIGHT ERS OF GAY DATG APP GRDR
• NO NIGERIA AMNTY GUARANTE FOR GAY DATG APP VICTIMS
• 5 BT GAY BLACK DATG S & APPS TO FD THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE
• NIGERIAN POLICE VTIGATG GAY DATG APP SM ULD PROSECUTE VICTIMS
• NIGERIA GAY WHATSAPP GROUP LK JO LIST
• GAY MEN NIGERIA TARGETED DATG APP EXTORTN SCHEME
• THE TOP LGBTQ+ DATG S AND APPS: 14 BT GAY DATG S
• GAY IN NIGERIA: LGBT LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC NATNS

NIGERIANS RANKED THIRD HIGHT ERS OF GAY DATG APP GRDR

Popular gay datg platform Grdr has released s gural Grdr Unwrapped – thk Spotify Unwrapped, but this time an overview of the platform’s sex and datg trends among the nearly 13 ln gay, bisexual, trans and queer folks who e the app each on their social media platforms, the rults is unsurprisg as shows mostly homophobic untri the world leadg the pack wh Nigeria emergg as third. It’s worth repeatg that Nigeria is third place., bottoms, versatile are terms ed leatg gay sexual posns and while the fdgs om Grdr foc on the top populatn Nigeria, one n still glean that there’s a huge percentage of gay persons the untry even though ’s possible gay bottoms/versatile might label themselv as ”tops” bee of bottom-shamg. This is not a universal fdg on onle queer teractns but has yet aga nfirmed what we know about Nigeria’s heavy gay populatn and why homophobia is plaly sensels and Bernard Dayo isn’t wrg about pop culture, he’s watchg horror movi and readg ics and tryg to pretend his addictn to Netflix isn’t a ser ndn.

NO NIGERIA AMNTY GUARANTE FOR GAY DATG APP VICTIMS

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5 BT GAY BLACK DATG S & APPS TO FD THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE

Inial vtigatns have nfirmed that up to $3, 260 (£2, 700) has been extorted om eight people - but the police spect more may have fallen victim to the Nansel told the BBC he unrstood that people might fear they uld get to trouble if they me forward to the police, but was not up to him to offer an is not clear if the first plaant will face prosecutn - this was somethg the police missner would have to ci, the police spokperson the police did tend to pursue a se agast those behd the fake match-makg app, he LGBTQ+ muny Nigeria fac a huge amount of discrimatn - and often face threats and ptn, Gay Nigeria: 'Everybody se me as an abomatn'Around the BBC. Police Nigeria have urged ers of a gay datg app who may have been smmed to e forward – but has so far refed to give victims amnty om anti-gay laws. Six people were arrted Nigeria on 31 July for allegedly extortg money om gay people they found on a datg app, the BBC reported.

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NIGERIAN POLICE VTIGATG GAY DATG APP SM ULD PROSECUTE VICTIMS

Uyai Ikpe-Etim, an openly gay Nigerian filmmaker, noted that queer Nigerians are forced to live onle due to rampant homophobia and strict laws. And a untry where beg gay n land you jail, many LGBTQ+ Nigerians do not feel fortable gog to the police or ttifyg urt when they are blackmailed.

BBC Ai Eye's documentary on ko and s victims n be viewed Your Se Articl19 Arrted at Same-Sex Weddg Nigeria ›The Legend of the Unrground Exam Nigerian Youth and Genr ›Nigeria's Unrground Gay Communy Is an Inspiratn ›53 Men Arrted Nigeria for Attendg 'Gay Weddg' ›. The muny is equently targeted on social media like Twter and Facebook—and even on the gay hook-up app Grdr, where homophob have been known to pose as potential dat or sexual partners, lurg unspectg ers to meetgs that turn to asslts or robberi. Although the se was thrown out of urt October 2020, lastg damage had been done to the men bee of the rampant homophobia Nigeria.

In rponse to the murr of a gay man March 2020, for example, Blaise and fellow activists Ani Kayo Somtochwu and Victor Emmanuel created a Twter mpaign unr the hashtag #EndHomophobiaNigeria. The hashtag trend on Nigerian Twter for a few days, providg an important sight to how stutnalized homophobia harms queer Nigerians.

NIGERIA GAY WHATSAPP GROUP LK JO LIST

Usg the hashtag, a number of queer Nigerians were able to share their daily experience of homophobia and alli had an opportuny to lend their voic to the ll for change. He scrib as “a very important tool for facg the challeng of state opprsn that Nigerian homosexuals face, bee is harr for them to target people when ’s onle. “I am tellg you that you, do you hear, you are not g up [to the stage], and is gog to pa you as I am sayg that I am homophobic.

A stat report released by the world's biggt social workg platform for the queer muny "Grdr Unwrapped", reveals the sex and datg trends among the nearly 13 ln gay, bi, transgenr, queer folks who e the app.

A stat report released by the world’s biggt social workg platform for the queer muny “Grdr Unwrapped”, reveals the sex and datg trends among the nearly 13 ln gay, bi, transgenr, queer folks who e the app. It’s que grippg to see the rult shows mostly homophobic untri the world leadg the pack wh Nigeria emergg as the third.

GAY MEN NIGERIA TARGETED DATG APP EXTORTN SCHEME

Nigeria’s ernment 2014 enacted the SSMPA, the law which prohibs a marriage or civil unn by persons of the same sex, the solemnisatn of such marriage plac of worship and the registratn of homosexual clubs and societi. Even as Nigeria ntu to be homophobic, maly due to cultural and relig nventn, Nigeria queer has taken to the digal space and bee bolr about buildg onle muni and meetg like-md strangers for iendship and sex.

‘’The digal world is openg up Nigeria queer hidn liv wh social media and other gay-iendly apps and webs and private groups offerg anonymo spac where they n e out and nnect and fd emotnal and fancial support and for some, to get the urage to go open about their sexualy’. Social media now allows queer Nigerians unapologetilly own and exprs their sexualy, for example, they rporate vobulary such as ‘’gay’’, ‘’homo’’ and ‘’queer’’ their profil.

In 2014, barely a month after former print Goodluck Ebele Jonathan signed the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibn) Act, an Islamic urt Bchi nvicted a 20-year-old man for homosexual offenc.

THE TOP LGBTQ+ DATG S AND APPS: 14 BT GAY DATG S

“As a gay Nigerian, I unrstand what actually means for one to experience discrimatn all spher of life jt for lovg and beg perceived as different and wh no one to turn to whout fear of beg exposed to further discrimatn. Acrdg to a post on the webse, David, a 26-year-old gay man based Owerri, said he was attacked by boys the area who spected he was gay.

Campaigners say the se is an important tt of a law banng gay marriage and same-sex “amoro relatnships”, which me to force five years ago. Xeenarh Mohammed, the executive director of the Lagos-based Iniative for Equal Rights (TIERS), said the law had historilly been ed to harass and blackmail gay people but there had not been any nvictns. The acced say they were attendg a birthday Same Sex Marriage Prohibn Act, which banned gay relatnships and entrenched tolerance of sexual mori Nigerian society, was signed by Goodluck Jonathan, then print, January law ed an ternatnal outcry, wh nmnatn om global human rights anisatn and wtern ernments.

GAY IN NIGERIA: LGBT LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC NATNS

Surveys have historilly shown high levels of homophobia Nigeria, but some have poted to what mpaigners say is a tentative, growg acceptance of gay men and June, high urt judg Botswana led that laws crimalisg same-sex relatns were unnstutnal and should be stck down, a major victory for gay rights mpaigners Ai. Botswana is regard as one of Ai’s most stable and mocratic natns, but homosexualy was outlawed unr the untry’s penal of, Mozambique and the Seychell have scrapped anti-gay laws recent judg rejected the precent set by India, which last year legalised gay sex between nsentg adults, as well as by a seri of other judgments across the Commonwealth and elsewhere, and said Kenya should make s own laws to reflect s own Tanzania, thori Dar Salaam, the biggt cy, have lnched a seri of crackdowns on gay people recent years.