Nigerian LGBTQ+ activist Bisi Alimi and his hband jt ma history as the first gay uple terviewed on Nigerian televisn.
Contents:
- MEET THE FIRST MAN TO E OUT AS GAY ON NIGERIAN TELEVISN
- LGBTQ ACTIVIST AND HIS HBAND MAKE HISTORY AS THE FIRST GAY COUPLE TO APPEAR ON NIGERIAN TELEVISN
- ‘I WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO COME OUT AS GAY ON LIVE TV NIGERIA’
- GAY IN NIGERIA: LGBT LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC NATNS
MEET THE FIRST MAN TO E OUT AS GAY ON NIGERIAN TELEVISN
LGBTQ activist Bisi Alimi and his hband ma history as the first gay uple to appear on Nigerian televisn. * first gay couple in nigeria *
In January, when Nigeria signed a law that not only banned gay marriage but imposed a 14-year jail term for same-sex relatns, the untry's new policy placed at the heart of a global schism over gay while Nigeria's new legislatn may have ptured worldwi attentn, the hostily toward homosexuals Nigeria wasn't example, take the se of Bisi Alimi, a gay rights activist who is believed to have been one of the first Nigerian gay men to e out on natnal televisn back 2004.
And gog to Soho and seeg gay people, and she hadn't believed gay people existed – there are no gay people Nigeria, y'know?
LGBTQ ACTIVIST AND HIS HBAND MAKE HISTORY AS THE FIRST GAY COUPLE TO APPEAR ON NIGERIAN TELEVISN
* first gay couple in nigeria *
He said, there are no gay people issu are gog on my life, and I knew I had to fd a way to rolve the crisis.
So I picked up my phone, and I rang the producer and I said, "I'm a gay guy and I'd like to talk about on your show. I've never been back sce To a lot of the ternatnal muny, gay rights Nigeria really me to the spotlight January, wh the ban on gay marriage.
‘I WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO COME OUT AS GAY ON LIVE TV NIGERIA’
BA: I thk to say that wasn't until this year that the whole "gay agenda" issue – the harassment of LGBT – actually got the mastream...
GAY IN NIGERIA: LGBT LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC NATNS
What we have, even the se of Rsia, is banng gay propaganda, not banng same-sex relatnships. Thgs that wouldn't happen before are happeng There was one statistic I saw, around the time of the gay marriage ban, om Pew Global Rearch, that said that 98 percent of Nigerians polled felt society should not accept homosexualy. I remember, when I was on a BBC program wh a director of the pollg pany om Nigeria, and I remember sayg, "You n't ask an average Nigerian if he is favor of gay marriage.
We don't need gay marriage Nigeria, what we need is a rpect for the fundamental human rights of every Nigerian, irrpective of whether they are male or female, straight or gay, able or disabled, rich or poor.