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

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

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.

HAPPENING NOW: LGBT NIGERIANS JAILED AFTER PASSAGE OF NEW ANTI-GAY LAW

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.

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.

THE NIGERIANS LURED TO A TRAP AND BLACKMAILED FOR BEG GAY

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….

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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.

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. 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. 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.

THE NEW ANTI-GAY BILL PROPOSED GHANA WILL DTROY LIV

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.

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.

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

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". Geni Pictur (“Mrs Lowry & Son, ” “Good Luck To You, Leo Gran”) has optned Emmett Monterey’s acclaimed memoir “Go the Way Your Blood Beats” – about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London – for TV adaptatn. At his mastream school, teachers refe to schle his class on the ground floor, and at his llege for disabled stunts, he’s told he will be expelled if the mors are te, if he’s gay.

Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny. Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab".

"We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law. Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy. "The bill will propose a total ban on what the Wt lls sex-reassignment prcriptns and procr, and prohib all activi that promote homosexualy, terms of...

Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia".