Gay life Nigeria is evolvg, even as the untry nsirs a measure to make homosexualy a crime punishable by 14 years prison.
Contents:
- OPN: NIGERIA IS A LD-BLOOD UNTRY FOR GAY MEN – I HAVE THE SRS TO PROVE
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
- SON OF HOMOPHOBIC NIGERIAN POLICIAN OUT AS “GAY AF”
- GAY IN NIGERIA: LGBT LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC NATNS
- THE NEW ANTI-GAY BILL PROPOSED GHANA WILL DTROY LIV
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
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 politicians in nigeria *
Ary 1963 for beg a lbian, Lilli Vcenz beme an early csar for gay rights an era before the Stonewall rts. Ach out: Kev Maxen, an associate ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, is believed to be the first openly gay male ach major Amerin men’s profsnal AND IDEAS ImageCred... Why are you tellg me that my dghter is a gay clown?
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
Inially, there were accatns that Ziegler, as a gay Democrat, was biased toward Bin, but now some Republins say his inty shows he's fair and reliable sayg the IRS was hampered the vtigatn. * gay politicians in nigeria *
In 2017, I started A Nasty Boy magaze to validate and affirm the liv and experienc of gay men Nigeria. 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. 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.
SON OF HOMOPHOBIC NIGERIAN POLICIAN OUT AS “GAY AF”
Bolu Okupe, the son of homophobic Nigerian polician Doy Okupe, has nfintly e out as "Gay AF" an Instagram post. * gay politicians in nigeria *
They acced me of beg gay and “spreadg a gay agenda, ” as they pummeled me; each punch was an asslt on who I was. They took my phone, forced me to unlock , and found further proof of my homosexualy. 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.
In Nigeria, gay men are portrayed as ncers eatg eply to the fabric of society—tumors that mt be oblerated.
The feral Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibn) Act of 2014 says anyone found guilty of homosexualy fac up to 14 years prison. A 2013 PewGlobal rearch suggts 98% of Nigerians believe homosexualy should not be accepted by society. 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.
GAY IN NIGERIA: LGBT LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC NATNS
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.
Growg up Nigeria, I wnsed first-hand a eply graed culture of sid hyper-masculy and vilent homophobia. As a child, I was characterized as a “boy-girl” even before I knew the tglg, plex bety of beg gay. 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.
Today, however, I wre this wh urgency my voice as a survivor of btal homophobia.
THE NEW ANTI-GAY BILL PROPOSED GHANA WILL DTROY LIV
I wre this knowg how suffotgly fearful the days followg a homophobic attack n be, and how the trma f a person’s life.
Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda.
“One of them is a gay Democrat who’s married to a man. The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak. Bolu Okupe, the son of homophobic Nigerian polician Doy Okupe, has e out as gay.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
Bolu Okupe, a personal traer livg France, and the son of homophobic Nigerian polician, Doy Okupe, has e out as gay. In an Instagram post, Bolu nfintly stated that he was “Gay AF” a pair of rabow shorts while holdg a Pri flag aloft.
Sce g out, Bolu has had to fight off homophobic ments, wh one sayg he’d “be a rpse” if he tried returng. “He knows that as a Christian and a wns for Christ (an evangelist) I am vehemently opposed to homosexualy as ns ntrary to the avowed precepts of my Christian fah.
He liv France where Homosexualy is not a crime.