Geni Pictur has optned Emmett Monterey’s memoir about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London for TV adaptatn.
Contents:
- 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
- THE NIGERIANS LURED TO A TRAP AND BLACKMAILED FOR BEG GAY
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- THE NEW ANTI-GAY BILL PROPOSED GHANA WILL DTROY LIV
- GAY IN NIGERIA: LGBT LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC NATNS
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
OPN: NIGERIA IS A LD-BLOOD UNTRY FOR GAY MEN – I HAVE THE SRS TO PROVE
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. * gay news nigeria *
A spokperson of Nigeria police Dolapo Badm has warned homosexuals the untry that the force will not ndone the vlatn of the Same-Sex Prohibn Act through their activi the untry. Disntent is afoot at the happit place on Earth, as Disney employe this week protted the pany's reactn to Florida's so-lled "Don't say gay" bill, which would prohib discsg LGBT topics classrooms. The Kenyan Film Classifitn Board (KFCB) on Thursday banned a documentary tled "I Am Samuel" about two gay lovers, llg "unacceptable and an afont to (the) culture and inty" of a eply Christian untry which has long crimalised homosexualy.
"Jungle Cise, " Disney's new nostalgia-soaked adventure film based on a 1950s theme park ri, has an unexpectedly morn twist -- one of s ma characters out as gay. The Suqian Intermediate People’s Court the eastern provce of Jiangsu, held that the textbook's scriptn of homosexualy as “a psychologil disorr” was not a factual error but merely an “amic view”, upholdg….
A stat report released by the world's biggt social workg platform for the queer muny "Grdr Unwrapped", reveals the sex and datg trends among the nearly 13 ln gay, bi, transgenr, queer folks who e the app. Grdr, the world's largt social workg app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people, recently released "Grdr Unwrapped", an rmal stats report that sheds some light on some of the sex & datg trends among the nearly 13 ln gay, bi, ….
HAPPENING NOW: LGBT NIGERIANS JAILED AFTER PASSAGE OF NEW ANTI-GAY LAW
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India's ernment has refed to appot a senr lawyer as a judge bee he is gay and has a foreign partner, the untry's Supreme Court said. Whether 's abstence, avoidg nightclubs, limg sexual partners, or phg for a swift vacce rollout, Spa's gay muny is on the ont le of the monkeypox vis and is takg actn.
Colton Unrwood, a former star of US realy TV show "The Bachelor, " where the male lead dat several female nttants before proposg marriage to one of them, revealed Wednday that he is gay.
Uned Stat Print, Joe Bin, recently lnched a mpaign towards shieldg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people wh directiv to embassi. Grdr, the world's most popular social workg app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people, is acced of sharg s ers' GPS ordat, er profile data and…. I wanted to start meangful nversatns around genr norms and masculy that speak specifilly to our reali as gay men wh a culture that is poisonoly patriarchal and eply homophobic.
THE NIGERIANS LURED TO A TRAP AND BLACKMAILED FOR BEG GAY
Agast a backdrop of adly anti-gay vlence, A Nasty Boy dared to be a haven for gay men Nigeria and, no time, received ternatnal attentn through CNN, BBC, The Guardian, The Enomist, Vogue, and others.
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
And yet, even this gome attack pal parison to the fatal btaly many Nigerian gay men have too often experienced the form of lynchgs or pillory wh tir before they’re set on fire and burnt alive—not for terrorism or worse, but for beg gay, for beg human, a sperately homophobic untry.
THE NEW ANTI-GAY BILL PROPOSED GHANA WILL DTROY LIV
A 2017 survey by The Iniative for Equal Rights (TIERS), a Nigerian-based human rights anizatn, showed 90% of Nigerians support the ntued enforcement of Nigeria’s anti-gay laws. Homophobia is the tie that bds a divid untry; the one thg a natn of chronic ethnic loyalti, of relig tensn, of failed ernment, n agree upon. In universy, I beme a social pariah and the poster child for “faggots” after beg outed by my bt iend on a mp that waged a ‘War on Homosexualy.
GAY IN NIGERIA: LGBT LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC NATNS
Anyone who speaks out support of, meets wh, or participat a group advotg for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people also risks 10 years prison.
Image ptn, Mohammed agreed to speak to the BBC on ndn of anonymyWhen Nigeria passed some of the tought anti-homosexualy laws Ai, the ter beme a place for the LGBT muny to nnect wh others more safely - until crimal gangs went digal too. Acrdg to a group of activists who work wh the LGBT muny Nigeria, around 15 to 20 people ntact them each week wh siar stori to type of blackmail, where an LGBT person is entrapped, is known Nigeria's gay muny as "ko" - the exact orig of the term is unclear. Image ptn, There is an unrground gay scene Lagos, but those who take part have to be very refulEmmanuel, not his real name, scribed how he started chattg to a iend onle, but had not realised his iend's acunt had been hijacked.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
It banned gay clubs, troducg a 10-year prison sentence for anyone who registers, operat, or participat gay clubs, societi, and anisatns, cludg supporters of those groups. The passg of the law had wispread support, acrdg to surveys, and meant Nigeria had some of the strictt laws agast homosexualy Ai. In 2014, media reports of vlence, mob jtice and extortn agast LGBT people were mon and activists say there has sce been an explosn ko s sce ptn, Uyai Ikpe-Etim says some people celebrate the targetg of LGBT peopleFilmmaker Uyai Ikpe-Etim, who liv openly as a gay woman Nigeria, said blackmail agast LGBT people is "rampant".