Gay Street Lagos - Lagos - Nigeria by Category

Contents:

• LAGOS, WHERE ’S STILL A THRILL TO BE GAY
• GAY IN NIGERIA: LGBT LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST HOMOPHOBIC NATNS
• THE NIGERIANS LURED TO A TRAP AND BLACKMAILED FOR BEG GAY
• GAY STREET LAGOS (CY)
• GAY ORGANIZATN LAGOS (CY)

LAGOS, WHERE ’S STILL A THRILL TO BE GAY

The SSMPA also impos a 10-year prison sentence on anyone who registers or participat gay clubs or anisatns, as well anyone who shows support for the activi of such anisatns.

It is this sectn of the act that led to the arrt of 47 gay men a hotel last year (their trial is still ongog).

He also knows that if any vlence breaks out, then n’t be reported – the ey of the Nigerian law, homosexualy is a much worse the future holds for Jordan – and for the rt of Nigeria’s LGBTQ muny – is unclear. As a new wave of anti-homosexualy laws and sentiments sweeps the globe, plac like Lagos ’s beg harr and more dangero than ever before. Wele to queer nightlife Nigeria where, on weekends, apartments turn to gay clubs, barred wh pass-guardg doors to protect agast hoe parti, discrete rav, and clubs are now beg creasgly popular amongst young queer Nigerians.

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

In 2014, the Nigerian ernment passed the highly ntroversial and homophobic Same-Sex Marriage Prohibn Act. While there isn’t an extensive rerd of people beg found guilty for the crim Nigeria, the laws embolned many homophobic mobs who took the laws to their hands and would beat dividuals who they intified as queer and stroy spac and parti that they spected were hosted by or for queer people. One of the most famo stanc was a 2018 se where 57 men were arrted at a party Lagos unr the spicn of beg iated to a gay club.

Tamuno, a 31-year-old gay man, tells me of a near-pture experience when he had gone to a party Port Harurt 2020.

For the anizers, the secury measur are put place, not agast potential miscreants or robbers but stead to keep off the police force and homophob. If you’ve lived Lagos you probably already know this, but jt se you don’t, and are cur, the gay scene Lagos is poppg.

THE NIGERIANS LURED TO A TRAP AND BLACKMAILED FOR BEG GAY

Olr folks live for their weddg, funeral and child-ditn parti, while the gay scene parti even harr whout needg any exce. In Lagos, partyg is fundamental to gay people’s liv sce ’s an easy way to socialise, make iends and to meet potential partners. If you want to get ved to one of the gathergs then you eher have to be gay or have gay iends who love partyg.

Whatever type of social animal you are, the gay folks of Lagos have nfirmed to me that beg a circle is easit way to know what’s on. You will equently fd hot-bodied gay men dancg on tabl wh their shirts off and shots of absthe makg their way around the hoe.

Sce I’m so magic and get to pick and choose om the people who flock to me (or I go through them all if I’m feelg slutty) I need to do some diggg on what tak to hook up gay Lagos. I’ve even heard mours of gay church Ftac servg as lc meetg grounds, although I have no evince to back this up.

GAY STREET LAGOS (CY)

Her store is filled wh so much gay activy that I asked her if I uld e and work there my spare time… specifilly near the ftg rooms. But I wanted to know how fast Tanya uld tell if a man was approachg him for, you know, gay stuff. Tanya showed me pictur of gay marriage ceremoni, legal or not, the parti looked dope as fuck and I n’t wa to be ved to one… not held Nigeria.

There is somethg lite about the gay scene Lagos bee exists a prer settg where the law forbids you to be gay. Some practic have to rema unrground but all tak is a ltle ncentratn to fd proof that gay people are termed to nurture their own subculture, spe mastream opposn. That hotel you love to vis but was closed to visors last weekend was probably hostg a very gay party or maybe a big fat gay weddg.

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.

GAY ORGANIZATN LAGOS (CY)

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.

”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.