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.
Contents:
- LGBTQ+ NIGERIANS ARE CELEBRATG PRI MONTH DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAW
- OPN: NIGERIA IS A LD-BLOOD UNTRY FOR GAY MEN – I HAVE THE SRS TO PROVE
- HAPPENING NOW: LGBT NIGERIANS JAILED AFTER PASSAGE OF NEW ANTI-GAY LAW
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
LGBTQ+ NIGERIANS ARE CELEBRATG PRI MONTH DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAW
LGBTQ+ Nigerians are gatherg to party and ph back agast anti-gay laws and societal norms this Pri Month. * lgbt activists in nigeria *
Jo here and take actn to ensure that everyone gets to have the right to too many Ain untri ntue to monize and crimalise homosexualy to this the world ntu to try and be more acceptg of people om all walks of life, there are still 69 untri where same-sex relatnships are still nsired to be crime. Nkoli’s sexualy almost st him his posn as the secretary of Congrs of South Ain Stunts(COSAS), many of the members of the COSAS movement had lack of unrstandg or acceptance of homosexualy. Succeedg this, 1982 Nkoli joed the Gay and Lbian Associatn of South Ai (GASA) as one of the few black members of the anisatn efforts of tergratg his the a Nkoli and fellow Black members endured a seri of racial microaggrsns as part GASA, he went on to start a branch of GASA known as the Saturday Group for people who were exclud by the ma prison 1984 for treason alongsi other anti-apartheid activists the Delmas Trial, the anisatn cled to support him, statg that the charg were not “gay matters” his release, Nkoli tablished the Gay and Lbian Organisatn of Wswatersrand (GLOW) alongsi fellow LGBTQ+ activist Beverly Dsie.
From a very young age, UK-based Cameroonian blogger and LGBTQ+ activist Bandy Kiki, knew that she was Kiki first moved to the UK, she feared for her life whenever she would attend gathergs wh members of the LGBTQ+ muny bee her native untry homosexualy is a crimal offence which n be punishable by maximum of five years Febary 2021 at least 24 people have been arrted and forced to unrgo an anal eximatn and HIV tt Cameroon. She is a spokperson for Rabow Equaly Hub, which fights for the rights of queer people the April 2021 she publicly stood up for two transgenr women om her home untry who were arrted at a rtrant for wearg women’s clothg and charged for “attempted homosexualy.
In 2017, he started A Nasty Boy magaze, Nigeria’s first publitn that was dited solely to the LGBTQ+ members wh the purpose of celebratg and regnisg their liv and experienc the wt Ain he was fally startg to live his tth universy, Akon was met wh a harsh realy after his iend outed him to a mp he scribed as wagg a “war agast homosexualy.
OPN: NIGERIA IS A LD-BLOOD UNTRY FOR GAY MEN – I HAVE THE SRS TO PROVE
* lgbt activists in nigeria *
”After he was outed, Akon was attacked by the homophobic stunts at the universy and a day after his attack, he was outed to his parents.
HAPPENING NOW: LGBT NIGERIANS JAILED AFTER PASSAGE OF NEW ANTI-GAY LAW
Popular thor and gay rights Kenyan activist Byanvanga Waaa first ma his mark when he publilly me out his article entled “I am a homosexual, Mum” later said the article was a missg chapter om his 2011 tobgraphy “One Day I Will Wre About This Place, ” spired by the monizatn of homosexualy on the Ain ntent. ”This g out piece by Waaa not only created nversatns about homosexualy his native untry of Kenya where homosexualy still remas illegal, but lead him to be clud on the TIME 100 as one of the most fluencial people the world. In 2010, Mugisha was among the people who succsfully took Ugandan newspaper, Rollg Stone, to urt after they published nam, pictur, home and work addrs of people who were gay for them to be 2013, Mugisha opposed the crimalisatn of homosexualy Uganda.
When she me out to her fay, Biubwa was kicked out of her home and told to only return once she was a “normal person” has been part of and morated panels Kenya about gay rights. In an say for Global Cizen, Donkor scrib that he knew he was gay om a young age and tried his bt to supprs was only at universy where he started to accept himself for what he tly was and began to be cur about anizatns that help people like him, and to his shock there were no LGBTQ+ anizatns fuelled him to start his own anizatn orr to be a bean of light for people who feel like him.
I’ve personally experienced two homophobic attacks my home cy of Enugu, southeastern Nigeria: one om the police and the other om a crowd of stunts. Her tentn wh Ìfẹ́, which means “love” Yoba (the predomant language of Wt Ai), was to reimage the meang of queerns Nigeria and eradite the homophobic portrayal of queer people Nollywood (Nigeria’s film dtry).
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
However, the story I worked on that ronated the most was after I left the BBC full-time when Kenya’s High Court led agast mpaigners seekg to overturn a law banng gay sex, May 2019.
Still, the ernment is crackg down on LGBTQ+ people the ci; for example, trans social media star Shakiro Njkam and her iend Patricia were recently released om jail after five months for ‘attempted homosexualy. Some homophob and bigots e social media to spew hate and enurage vlence—someone needs to be on the same platforms challengg those thoughts and raisg awarens. ”Alex Kofi DonkorAlex Kofi DonkorPhotographed by Em Robby AbbeyquayeDonkor, 29, is the founr of nonprof LGBT+ Rights Ghana, which champns eedom for lbians, gays, bisexuals, trans, tersex, queers, and alli his home untry of foundg LGBT+ Rights Ghana“I ially started LGBT+ Rights Ghana as an activism blog to create awarens and share rmatn.
We ran a seri for Pri Month where we engaged wh LGBTQ+ dividuals to create awarens, and even though we face homophobia on this platform, what matters is that we have created a space that brgs people together. The activist, 42, is on the ont le of the war agast homophobia, ensurg that the discreded 2013 anti-homosexualy bill, which hand out the ath penalty to anyone nvicted of engagg homosexualy, isn’t beg an activist“Beg an activist Uganda fely wh challeng: harassment, verbal attacks, and the fear of what may happen to me if I get arrted aga—I was arrted 2016 when we tried to put on a Pri event. By Pelumi SalakoILORIN, Nigeria, June 23 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) — YouTuber Victor Emmanuel knows first-hand how tough life is for people who are openly gay Nigeria, where LGBTQ+ relatnships and even same-sex displays of affectn are year, he was kidnapped by seven men who blackmailed, extorted, and tortured him for two days an attack that has sce left him nstantly lookg over his shoulr.