Gay life Nigeria is evolvg, even as the untry nsirs a measure to make homosexualy a crime punishable by 14 years prison.
Contents:
- BLACKMAIL, PREJUDICE AND PERSECUTN: GAY RIGHTS NIGERIA
- LGBTQ+ NIGERIANS ARE CELEBRATG PRI MONTH DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAW
- GAY IN NIGERIA: LGBT LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC NATNS
- NIGERIAN SENATE PASS ANTI-GAY BILL, FYG BRISH AID THREAT
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
BLACKMAIL, PREJUDICE AND PERSECUTN: GAY RIGHTS NIGERIA
Stigmatised by the public and badgered by the police, gay people Nigeria have been driven ever eper unrground * nigeria gay rights *
At a private party, held late at night a small Lagos hotel far om any ma road, men fd solace beg openly gay. ”The Same Sex Marriage Prohibn Act, which banned gay relatnships and entrenched tolerance to sexual mori Nigerian society, was signed by Print Goodluck Jonathan January 2014.
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. * nigeria gay rights *
Acrdg to Oriye, police regularly arrt people who attend gay meet-ups, or simply for beg gay – even though isn’t illegal. But the tst afford by the closed spac is creasgly over three years, gay iends of Samson Nm* stayed at his home Lagos. “If you’re gay Nigeria, and you’re rich enough to even afford therapy, n you really tell your therapist and be open?
GAY IN NIGERIA: LGBT LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC NATNS
* nigeria gay rights *
But that has meant that their foc is largely on men, bee HIV awarens is foced on gay men.
NIGERIAN SENATE PASS ANTI-GAY BILL, FYG BRISH AID THREAT
The Nigerian senate has passed a bill banng same-sex marriag, fyg a threat om Bra to whhold aid om natns vlatg gay rights. * nigeria gay rights *
”Azeenarh Mohammed, a 32-year old lawyer, worked wh hundreds of gay Nigerian women for the Herich Böll Stiftung Foundatn Abuja.
“Firstly, people have ternalised homophobia, so they say to themselv ‘Oh, this is jt a phase for me, I’ll grow out of , get married and have children. Men really experience vlent homophobia here, but I’d say a key difference for women is that, bee of our patriarchal stctur, women are easier to ntrol or domate. “You live life here as a gay person, knowg that there is no future Nigeria if you want to live an open life, but I really wanted to change that.
The legislators and senators were expectg a speech on the environment; Mohammed stead spoke on gay rights.
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
Afterwards, some said the bill was already passed so we should move on, others were llg for me to be arrted for beg gay. 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.
UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
"Nigeria is a eply relig untry, where many reject homosexualy as a rptg Wtern 2014, the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibn) Act was signed to law, which bars not only gay relatnships but also any public sign of same-sex affectn or membership of LGBTQ+ groups, wh punishments of up to 14 years prison. Gay sex is illegal more than half of Ain untri, acrdg to global LGBTQ+ rights tracker Equalx, although Gabon, Kenya, and Botswana have all crimalised same-sex relatns recent spe the risks, activists are phg to exprs themselv and mand change this June, a month which is marked around the world wh LGBTQ+ Pri ralli and parti.