Gay In Nigeria: LGBT Life In One Of The World’s Most Homophobic Natns

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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, ….

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.

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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….

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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. 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.

GAY IN NIGERIA: LGBT LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC NATNS

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.

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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.

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