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Contents:
- OPN: NIGERIA IS A LD-BLOOD UNTRY FOR GAY MEN – I HAVE THE SRS TO PROVE
- 'SEX EDUTN'S' ERIC EFFNG IS SPIRATN TO NIGERIA'S GAYS, SAYS ACTIVIST
- GAY NIGERIA: 'EVERYBODY SE ME AS AN ABOMATN'
- THE NIGERIANS LURED TO A TRAP AND BLACKMAILED FOR BEG GAY
- TAG: NIGERIAN GAY STORI
- INSI NIGERIA'S SECRET GAY CLUB
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 stories nigeria *
In one of the world’s most homophobic untri, a new generatn of wrers are wrg queer people to existence. Nigeria is one of the least tolerant untri the world for gay people. In a 2013 global survey, me out as the most homophobic natn of the 39 polled wh 98% of rponnts sayg society should not accept homosexualy.
Another study 2017 found that 90% of Nigerians support the law that bans gay marriage. That legislatn, passed 2014, also troduced up to 14-year prison terms for same-sex “amoro relatnships” or membership of gay rights groups. Policians jtified by claimg that homosexualy is “immoral” and “un-Ain” even though anti-gay laws were first troduced by Wtern lonial powers.
A uple of years later, another brave story of life as a gay person Nigeria emerged.
'SEX EDUTN'S' ERIC EFFNG IS SPIRATN TO NIGERIA'S GAYS, SAYS ACTIVIST
Entled Liv of Great Men: Livg and Lovg as an Ain Gay Man, follows journalist Chike Frankie Edozien’s travels around Ai and the world as a member of the LGBTQ muny. Unlike most Nigerian lerature which non-heterosexual people are eher non-existent or hidn away, this memoir is full of gay characters who are bare, alive and very prent.
The llective braved possible retaliatn ristg homophobia so publicly. Ju Dibia’s 2005 Walkg wh Shadows is regnised to be the first Nigerian novel wh a gay man as the central character.
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.
GAY NIGERIA: 'EVERYBODY SE ME AS AN ABOMATN'
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.
THE NIGERIANS LURED TO A TRAP AND BLACKMAILED FOR BEG GAY
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.
TAG: NIGERIAN GAY STORI
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. 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.
INSI NIGERIA'S SECRET GAY CLUB
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.
I wre this knowg how suffotgly fearful the days followg a homophobic attack n be, and how the trma f a person’s life.