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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. * nigerian vies on lgbt *
” But they have enuntered a spate of homophobic chatrooms on Clubhoe recent weeks. 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.
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.