A 'edy' sketch portrayg a gay man beg sexually asslted has gone viral Nigeria | PkNews

Contents:

• GA YASHERE ON BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA’S GAY STORYLE AND CHANGG THE NARRATIVE ABOUT NIGERIANS ON A GLOBAL STAGE
• A ‘EDY’ SKETCH PORTRAYG A GAY MAN BEG SEXUALLY ASSLTED HAS GONE VIRAL NIGERIA
• 'SEX EDUTN'S' ERIC EFFNG IS SPIRATN TO NIGERIA'S GAYS, SAYS ACTIVIST
• ‘THE LEGEND OF THE UNRGROUND’ REVIEW: GAY ACTIVISM NIGERIA
• GAY IN NIGERIA: LGBT LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC NATNS

GA YASHERE ON BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA’S GAY STORYLE AND CHANGG THE NARRATIVE ABOUT NIGERIANS ON A GLOBAL STAGE

Homosexualy is still a ntent issue the Nigerian muny, both home and abroad.

“I wanted to tell the story bee beg a lbian myself and g om a Nigerian fay; I felt like I was fortunate that I was born outsi of Nigeria, so I didn’t have a lot of the experienc that my Nigerian gay iends would have had wh the doctratn that the beatgs. In Nigeria, gay terurse is punishable wh 14 years jail.

A ‘EDY’ SKETCH PORTRAYG A GAY MAN BEG SEXUALLY ASSLTED HAS GONE VIRAL NIGERIA

Oscillatg between the eply textured Lagos, Nigeria and New York Cy, Nneka Onuorah and Giselle Bailey’s stylish documentary “The Legend of the Unrground” steadfastly chronicl the trans-Atlantic effort led by several Nigerian LGBTQIA activists to stem the wave of discrimatg homophobic lawmakg the Ain untry. Photographed to poetic gre, “The Legend of the Unrground” distrsg stori and the tight-kn gay muny’s nurturg bonds to create a rilient kaleidospe of heels, dance, and strength. Mikael Ighodaro, a gay Nigerian man livg New York Cy, left his home untry to pe the vlent wave of homophobia.

There, 's not only gay sex that's outlawed, but so are meetg plac for gay people such as parti. To practice nsensual sex safety, the muny often swch: gog to “the market” means you’re hook up; “TB” is another way to ask if you’re gay; “Kto” means you’re sndalo. We also watch as Brown grappl wh his rol as spokman and the public enemy of homophob.

A few subjects rell how they were ostracized om their fai and church for beg gay, and for beg diagnosed wh HIV. And the e of the Queer Cy’s podst’s host, Timi, as a narrative vice to spect the untry’s anti-gay lawmakers and ps, pecially when the director utiliz spl-screens, never que hs the mark.

'SEX EDUTN'S' ERIC EFFNG IS SPIRATN TO NIGERIA'S GAYS, SAYS ACTIVIST

“The Legend of the Unrground” tails the heartbreak and riliency Nigeria’s gay muny and creat an upliftg exprsn of personal eedom. Nigerian edian and popular ic Yoba terpreter, Ogunsa Ayoji Samuel popularly known as Still Rgg has fally rpond to multiple reports scribg him as ‘gay’. We n stay the same hotel room if the event anisers n’t afford seperate rooms for , do that mean we are gay?

‘The allegatn is not te, the fact that you are close wh a client do not suggt such gay relatnship. ” And though has a theatril orig that n be traced back to the 19th century, drag evolved to a gay art form and served as a vehicle for the queer ristance and liberatn movement throughout the 20th century and has remaed so.

And for a untry notor for s homophobia and crimalizatn of queerns, this remarkable fondns for drag edy is cur and edians who create this entertament -opt drag culture, perpetuate sid stereotyp, and oftentim produce blatantly homophobic sks for public nsumptn. Siarly, Jam Brown, a self-intified “crossdrser, ” social media fluencer, dancer, and star of the HBO documentary The Legend of the Unrground, ro the attails of a viral vio of her prottg the grounds of her wrongful arrt, alleged homosexualy, alongsi 46 others, by the Nigerian police force November 2019, to bee a cultural and social media force to be reckoned wh.

‘THE LEGEND OF THE UNRGROUND’ REVIEW: GAY ACTIVISM NIGERIA

And based on the ias they endorse — om Bobrisky’s ntroversial support for Nigeria’s anti-gay laws to Jam Brown wtgly flirtg wh queerphobia (see the clip above), likely for stenance — they n often be disagreeable. Their dience is not alarmed by any “msage” that uld challenge their homophobia or a portrayal that uld be seen as normalizg sartorial queerns or humanizg the liv and experienc of LGBT Nigerians.

A “edy sketch” enuragg sexual asslt agast gay men has gone viral Nigeria. The vio, created by the edian Ogbaba, featur an effemate gay man acted by the edian himself. The four get to a nontatn about Ogbaba beg gay, wh Odimgbe mockg him a high-pched voice: “I love you, you’re the apple of my eye.

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

The vio ends unfortably, wh two of the men holdg Ogbaba down while the third prepar to sexually asslt the man wh the vegetable – all bee he is gay. Ji Maulay is among those who nmn the vio bee enurag homophobia. Said: “It glorifi and glamoriz homophobic attacks faced daily realy by many LGBTI people Nigeria.

Your edy is givg licence to haters to attack gay people. “We urge Ogbaba to whdraw this sketch, apologise to the gay muny and nmn any homophobic abe as a rult of this edy, ” he add. Therefore, this paper eply vtigat how the selected stand-up edians om Nigeria, South Ai and Uned Stat of Ameri e their stand-up performanc to lampoon ordate ambn of homosexualy their var societi.

The character Eric Effng (portrayed by actor Ncuti Gatwa) is an openly gay Brish teen the Netflix seri Sex Edutn. Eric is a gay teenager this seri about a high school the Uned Kgdom where sex is very much on everyone's md. His parents know he is gay and have e to accept his sexualy.