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.
Contents:
- BLACKMAIL, PREJUDICE AND PERSECUTN: GAY RIGHTS NIGERIA
- OPN: NIGERIA IS A LD-BLOOD UNTRY FOR GAY MEN – I HAVE THE SRS TO PROVE
- LGBTQ+ NIGERIANS ARE CELEBRATG PRI MONTH DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAW
- THE NEW ANTI-GAY BILL PROPOSED GHANA WILL DTROY LIV
- LGBT ACCEPTANCE SLOWLY GROWS NIGERIA, SPE ANTI-GAY LAWS
BLACKMAIL, PREJUDICE AND PERSECUTN: GAY RIGHTS NIGERIA
LGBT Rights Nigeria: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay rights nigeria *
Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (other penalty)Censorship✖ Imprisonment as punishmentNon-bary genr regnnUnknownDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsConversn Therapy✖ Not banned. Public OpnSurveys Nigeria have unvered eply graed homophobic attus, which may pose ser risks to LGBTQ+ muny members. HistoryHomosexual activy Nigeria?
Homosexual activy Nigeria is illegal (other penalty). Current statSce Jun 1, 1916Illegal (other penalty) Male Homosexualy is punishable by 14 years prison unr the Nigerian Penal Co. Laws is unclear about female Homosexualy the Nigerian Penal , which the southern part of Nigeria l.
In some stat Northern Nigeria, nsentg and adult Gays and Lbians uld be punished wh the ath penalty marriage Nigeria? Imprisonment as punishment In addn to crimalizg homosexualy, Nigeria has enacted legislatn that would make illegal for heterosexual fay members, alli and iends of LGBT people to be supportive.
OPN: NIGERIA IS A LD-BLOOD UNTRY FOR GAY MEN – I HAVE THE SRS TO PROVE
Stigmatised by the public and badgered by the police, gay people Nigeria have been driven ever eper unrground * gay rights nigeria *
Acrdg to Nigerian law, a heterosexual ally "who admisters, wns, abets or aids" any form of genr non-nformg and homosexual activy uld receive a 10-year jail to change legal genr Nigeria? Current statSce May 29, 1999No protectns Homosexualy is still illegal adoptn Nigeria?
Illegal Homosexualy is illegal donatns by MSMs Nigeria?
LGBTQ+ NIGERIANS ARE CELEBRATG PRI MONTH DEFIANCE OF ANTI-GAY LAW
* gay rights nigeria *
N/A Homosexualy is illegal. At a private party, held late at night a small Lagos hotel far om any ma road, men fd solace beg openly gay. ”The Same Sex Marriage Prohibn Act, which banned gay relatnships and entrenched tolerance to sexual mori Nigerian society, was signed by Print Goodluck Jonathan January 2014.
THE NEW ANTI-GAY BILL PROPOSED GHANA WILL DTROY LIV
LGBTQ+ Nigerians are gatherg to party and ph back agast anti-gay laws and societal norms this Pri Month. * gay rights nigeria *
Acrdg to Oriye, police regularly arrt people who attend gay meet-ups, or simply for beg gay – even though isn’t illegal. But the tst afford by the closed spac is creasgly over three years, gay iends of Samson Nm* stayed at his home Lagos.
“If you’re gay Nigeria, and you’re rich enough to even afford therapy, n you really tell your therapist and be open?
But that has meant that their foc is largely on men, bee HIV awarens is foced on gay men. ”Azeenarh Mohammed, a 32-year old lawyer, worked wh hundreds of gay Nigerian women for the Herich Böll Stiftung Foundatn Abuja. “Firstly, people have ternalised homophobia, so they say to themselv ‘Oh, this is jt a phase for me, I’ll grow out of , get married and have children.
LGBT ACCEPTANCE SLOWLY GROWS NIGERIA, SPE ANTI-GAY LAWS
In the past year, Angola and Botswana have shed their anti-gay laws. What n others learn om them? * gay rights nigeria *
Men really experience vlent homophobia here, but I’d say a key difference for women is that, bee of our patriarchal stctur, women are easier to ntrol or domate. ”Mohammed is one of the few gay women now livg openly Nigeria.
“You live life here as a gay person, knowg that there is no future Nigeria if you want to live an open life, but I really wanted to change that. “For every 10 gay women Nigeria, seven want to leave eventually and go abroad. The legislators and senators were expectg a speech on the environment; Mohammed stead spoke on gay rights.
Afterwards, some said the bill was already passed so we should move on, others were llg for me to be arrted for beg gay. But I know my rights, beg gay is not yet illegal Nigeria.
A tentative, growg acceptance of gay men and women Nigeria offers a seed of hope, human rights mpaigners said on Wednday, a untry where the outlawg of gay sex is supported by ne ten people, acrdg to a new report. * gay rights 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. They acced me of beg gay and “spreadg a gay agenda, ” as they pummeled me; each punch was an asslt on who I was.