Gay In Nigeria: LGBT Life In One Of The World’s Most Homophobic Natns

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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 story in nigeria *

After I was kidnapped and tortured Nigeria for beg gay and darg to speak openly about Ameri offered me refuge.

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I’ve trad one perilo inty — beg gay Nigeria — for yet another one: beg a Black man Ameri. As an openly gay man there, my bolst prry each time I stepped out of the hoe was to return home alive. As a Black man Ameri, that has not untry was no place for a teenage boy like me, who was gay and mp.

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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.