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:
- OPN: NIGERIA IS A LD-BLOOD UNTRY FOR GAY MEN – I HAVE THE SRS TO PROVE
- LGBT: DPE ANTI-GAY LAW, HOMOSEXUALY RIS NIGERIA FEW DAYS TO BIN’S PRINCY
- IF YOU SAY BEG GAY IS NOT AIN, YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR HISTORY
OPN: NIGERIA IS A LD-BLOOD UNTRY FOR GAY MEN – I HAVE THE SRS TO PROVE
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Same Sex Marriage (Prohibn) Act 2013, Sectn 5(2) Registerg, Operatg or Participatg a Gay Club.
LGBT: DPE ANTI-GAY LAW, HOMOSEXUALY RIS NIGERIA FEW DAYS TO BIN’S PRINCY
LGBT Rights Nigeria: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * lgbt nigeria *
Sectn 5(2) crimalis registerg, operatg or participatg gay clubs, societi or anisatns, or makg a public show of a same-sex relatnship wh a penalty of ten years imprisonment. The police charged them whbeg “gays and lbians”.
Police claimed that those arrted were about to be “iated” to a gay club/anisatn, while those arrted dited that was a birthday party. 53 men were arrted for celebratg a gay weddg April.
The owner of the hotel and two staff members were charged wh aidg and abettg homosexual activi ntrary to Sectn 5(2) of the SSMPA. Five men appeared a Sharia urt Bchi January on charg of formg a gay club.
IF YOU SAY BEG GAY IS NOT AIN, YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR HISTORY
Thoands of prottors threw ston to a Sharia urt Bchi, northern Nigeria, January, and mand ath sentenc for the 11 men arrted for belongg to gay anisatns. In the same month, 21 men were reportedly arrted Ibadan for beg a “gay cult”, havg been found wh over 100 ndoms their posssn.
A man intified as Sadiq was reportedly arrted Augt and beaten based on allegatns of homosexual nduct. Two men, aged 35 and 22, were arraigned the northern cy of Jos October and charged wh homosexual acts unr sectn 284 of the Penal Co (Northern Stat) Feral Provisns Act. Also October two men, aged 18 and 19, were arraigned on charg of homosexual activy.
Police northern Nigeria taed four men over the Christmas holidays and allegedly tortured them until they named others belongg to a gay anisatn. In Ghiri town near Abuja Febary, a mob of about 40 men reportedly dragged a number of spected gay men om their beds the middle of the night, after smashg down doors to their hom hoe-to-hoe raids. Members of the mob were shoutg that they were “cleansg the muny” of gays and “we are workg for Jonathan” reference to the then Print Goodluck Jonathan.