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Contents:

• THE GAY MARRIAGE THAT BROKE THE NIGERIAN INTER
• GAY NIGERIA: 'EVERYBODY SE ME AS AN ABOMATN'
• GAY WEDDGS AI
• GAY IN NIGERIA: LGBT LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC NATNS
• NIGERIAN GAY ACTIVIST EDAFE OKPORO MARRI LOVER NICK GIGL
• NIGERIAN COURT PUTS DOZENS ON TRIAL OVER ALLEGED GAY WEDDG
• HISBAH APPREHENDS 19 HOMOSEXUALS AT GAY WEDDG KANO
• NIGERIAN SHARIA POLICE ARRT 19 OVER ‘GAY WEDDG’
• NIGERIAN ARCHBISHOP ‘WANTS GAY WEDDG WNS TO BE JAILED”
• AUTHORI DISPT GAY WEDDG, ARRT 19 ATTEN PROMENT NORTHERN STATE
• NIGERIAN GAY ACTIVIST EDAFE OKPORO MARRI LOVER NICK GIGL
• NIGERIAN ISLAMIC OFFICIALS ARRT 12 PEOPLE RAID OF ALLEGED GAY WEDDG CEREMONY

THE GAY MARRIAGE THAT BROKE THE NIGERIAN INTER

At the same time, his phone and my phone started to heat up wh Facebook msag om strangers nmng for beg gay. They were not even aware he was gay. I knew was illegal for him to be gay his untry.

I knew was illegal for his fay to know he was gay and not report him. I grew up here, where lettg someone know you are gay was tough, not illegal. Some of David’s reasong n only be unrstood by someone who grew up Nigeria or a siar untry where is illegal to be gay.

GAY NIGERIA: 'EVERYBODY SE ME AS AN ABOMATN'

I believe is bee the prs still wants to vilify gay men and women.

We may have thankfully won marriage equaly here on Amerin soil, but until is legally safe for our gay, queer, trans, and genr non-nformg brothers, sisters, and fay to live their liv as they wish to be all rners of the world, the fight mt go on. Homosexualy is illegal most Ain natns.

NAN said the law also forbids people om nng gay clubs, societi, procsns or meetgs Nigeria. Last month, Uganda’s parliament passed ntroversial legislatn that would make some gay acts punishable by life prison. Homosexualy is illegal most Ain natns based on remnants of sodomy laws troduced durg the Brish lonial era and perpetuated by cultural beliefs.

GAY WEDDGS AI

READ: Rsia’s ‘anti-gay’ law ph gay muny to shadows. READ: Thomas Hzlsperger be first high-profile gay footballer. Five years ago, the Nigerian ernment signed the Same Sex Marriage Prohibn Act, sentially banng gay relatnships.

They also claim there’s been a rise stanc of extortn and blackmail of the LGBTQI+ muny by secury a after the law passed, our rrponnt Mayeni Jon vtigat what life is really like for Nigeria’s gay muny. Gay Weddgs Romantic Ai | Out2Ai. But did you ever nsir that a gay weddg might be possible Ai?

Most Ain untri are a no-go for weddgs (but there are still many that accept gay travellers. ) However, at the tip of Ai, one of Ai's most gay-iendly statns (nay, the world) awas you South Ai was the very first untry to crimalise discrimatn based on sexual orientatn. It was also the fifth untry the world to legalise gay marriage!

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

It's, therefore, no surprise that 's the top statn for a gay weddg Ai! Can a Gay Couple Get Married Ai?

Although homosexualy is illegal and gay marriage is not regnised most Ain untri, South Ai and s statns are very progrsive and gay-iendly, offerg a vast array of lotns that will fulfil your wilst weddg fantasi.

What Should I Know Before Planng a Gay Weddg Ai? First thgs first: regnise that gay marriage is not legal or regnised everywhere. What Are Some of the Bt Gay Weddg Dtatns Ai?

NIGERIAN GAY ACTIVIST EDAFE OKPORO MARRI LOVER NICK GIGL

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South Ai is the only Ain statn where gay marriage is regnised.

NIGERIAN COURT PUTS DOZENS ON TRIAL OVER ALLEGED GAY WEDDG

However, 's certaly not the only untry where gay travellers are wele!

South Ai is possibly the most sctive statn Ai for gay travel. Not only is the top gay-iendly untry on the ntent, but is like multiple untri rolled to one. Ai’s gay pal, Cape Town, is a hub of all thgs thrivg and fabulo.

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HISBAH APPREHENDS 19 HOMOSEXUALS AT GAY WEDDG KANO

We have hand-picked the crème la crème of gay-iendly statns, hotels, and lodg Ai so that your trip will be nothg short of extraordary. Two gay Lagos women head home after dg at a popular rtrant on the cy’s upsle Victoria Island.

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Life Nigeria, one of the world’s most anti-gay natns, is a daily stggle for Aola, a closeted, workg-class homosexual man livg on the outskirts of Abuja, the natn’s small, central (not his real name) has been lled offensive nam, sulted and ostracized over assumptns about his sexualy, so he shields his te self fear that g out would only attract more tense abe. Meanwhile, some young, wealthy gay Nigerians who spend most of their time the louche, Wternized Victoria Island sectn of Lagos -- the massive, quickly mornizg megalopolis on Nigeria’s southwtern ast -- are able to live a quasi-open life spe the vilent homophobia that l much of the rt of the Aola, a portly man his thirti who earns a most livg as a ok at a terg pany Abuja, that life of openns is difficult to said he worri about discrimatn every time he walks out the door, pecially light of a law passed this year that, should be signed by Print Goodluck Jonathan, would make the sheer act of beg gay punishable by up to 14 years prison. ”Aola’s fears are supported by statistil evince: A study of 39 natns published by the Pew Rearch Center June emed Nigeria the least-acceptg natn of the lot for gays, wh 98 percent of survey rponnts sayg society should not accept homosexualy, edgg out ultranservative Jordan by a sgle percentage Acceptg BubbleSix upper-class gay profsnals who met wh the Internatnal Bs Tim at a Victoria Island rtrant last week say that bee they mostly stay wh that neighborhood’s fairly tolerant bubble, they are largely able to avoid Aola’s nstant state of fear.

Still, they, like everyone else terviewed for this story, asked to be assigned psdonyms bee of the harsh penalti that n rult om beg intified as gay the prs. ”Fatima is not gay per se -- she scrib her sexualy as “fluid” and said she is open to relatnships wh men or women -- but she mostly dat women. I’ve had iends whose parents kicked them out or disowned them bee they told them they were gay.

NIGERIAN SHARIA POLICE ARRT 19 OVER ‘GAY WEDDG’

”Crimalizg HomosexualyBeg gay Nigeria has long meant hidg the shadows of society, but fear and anxiety among most members of the natn’s gay muny have grown markedly sce May 30, when the Nigerian Senate passed a bill makg the simple act of beg homosexual a crime punishable by as long as 14 years prison. Jonathan has not yet signed or vetoed the bill -- which was prevly passed by the Nigerian Hoe of Reprentativ -- nor has he sent a clear signal of which si he will eventually take on the ntroversial bill, upled wh legal rtrictns on gay marriage, is actually lenient pared wh the suatn faced by gays the Mlim-domated north of the natn, where Shariah Islamic law mak homosexualy a pal offense punishable some areas by stong to though the measure is not yet officially on the books, has already had a chillg effect on gay life Nigeria, acrdg to Aisha, a lbian iend of Fatima’s. ” But now, she said, there is a wily held, albe premature, belief that “’s illegal and rri a sentence” of more than a dozen years behd bars, which further timidat Nigeria’s gay populatn.

Although Fatima nsirs Abuja to be “like gay central of Nigeria, ” the place she said she would go to “hook up wh a girl, several girls, one weekend, ” that si of gay life isn’t accsible to many homosexual rints of the pal who aren’t as well-heeled as said that due to the discrimatn he fac Abuja, he unrground channels and word-of-mouth to fd other gay people to teract wh or date.

NIGERIAN ARCHBISHOP ‘WANTS GAY WEDDG WNS TO BE JAILED”

Someone you’re sure is gay troduc you to someone else who is, who troduc you to someone else who is, and so on, ” he, Aola has been threatened and sulted on numero ocsns. Kgsley, a straight iend of Aola’s who has wnsed anti-gay discrimatn of others firsthand Abuja and surroundg areas, said that such sentiments are sadly que mon Nigeria.

Although he is not gay, he did not want his real name to be ed bee he associat wh gay people.

AUTHORI DISPT GAY WEDDG, ARRT 19 ATTEN PROMENT NORTHERN STATE

“There are people like me who accept them, but then there are lots of people who once they fd out someone is gay, they refe to have any kd of ntact wh them, ” Kgsley explaed as we sat his sedan, wag out one of Abuja’s notor “go-slow” traffic jams. They will make fun of the person, say thgs like ‘This guy’s homo, ’ stuff like that, ‘Faggot.

’”And Kgsley said the fear of beg tormented for their sexualy filtrat the social liv of his gay iends. “They don’t stay groups, they’d rather rema not mixg wh other gay people, bee they don’t want other people to be able to say, ‘Those guys are gay, ’” he Of The UnknownKgsley is rare among straight Nigerians that he has a well-veloped sense of the nuanc of human sexualy, and he has chosen to unrstand and accept the gay muny rather than ri for s otherns. A large proportn of Nigerians draw their tolerance of homosexualy om relig and cultural tradns rangg om fundamental Christian and Islamic teachgs to centuri-old tribal norms.

NIGERIAN GAY ACTIVIST EDAFE OKPORO MARRI LOVER NICK GIGL

But even some highly ted, fairly secular and otherwise progrsive Nigerians simply nsir homosexualy to be transgrsive or agast nature, and therefore refe to accept . Typil is Azu, a well-traveled, affluent Lagos bswoman who simply don’t believe that a person n be born gay. “Every woman or man is born to be attracted to the oppose sex, but I don’t know, if maybe there’s a change [gay people’s] bras somehow, there has to be a reason, ” she posed over drks.

“Beg gay is somethg that velops a later stage of your life, but whether we believe or not, all girls are attracted to men growg up. ”Azu said she has had several gay iends over the urse of her life and that she do to this day, but she still scrib gay dividuals nscendg terms that illtrate her views on their sexual orientatn.

NIGERIAN ISLAMIC OFFICIALS ARRT 12 PEOPLE RAID OF ALLEGED GAY WEDDG CEREMONY

“I haven’t met that many gay people, but I fd the guys a b stranger than the girls bee ’s hard to prehend a guy actg like a woman.... For gay guys, ’s a b more crazy when they go ‘Eh’ or how they eat, ” she said. “I had a gay iend who ed five tim as much makp as I did, but I liked him bee he was like a puppy dog.

”Aisha said people often qutn her “cisn” to be gay, and that she believ their attus reprent a cril misunrstandg of the nature of homosexualy. She said she was eply disturbed when a lleague at the ernmental office where she works who is not aware of her sexualy said a discsn once, “Gays should all be killed, ” but that such vlent remarks are rare her world, where sual ignorance is much more mon. “A lot of people feel like ’s a personal offense if you don’t accept a man’s advance, no matter if you’re gay or straight, bee the penis is God’s gift to humankd.

”Hope Amid The DpairPersecutn of gay Nigerians still leads to vlence fairly often, particularly the untry’s more ral stat. In January, four men were arrted, stripped naked and parad along a public street Imo State on spicn that they were homosexual, as noted by OnleNigeria News.