Turkish novelist and academic Elif Shafak sat down with Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka for an episode of Studio B: Unscripted, where the two brilliant minds discussed nationalism, safe...
Imagine getting your dream of your favourite celebrity walking you down the aisle as you walk to marry the love of your life: that’s what this...
One comment that struck me was made by a guy (whose name I can’t remember). He said if one of those guys was his brother he would...
The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs), in its biennial social perception survey, has found that Nigerians are more accepting of LGBT people than they were two...
In an op-ed for CNN, fashion writer and founder of A Nasty Boy, Richard Akuson, narrates the brutal attack from four men in his hometown in...
The AfroGames have become the first sporting event targeted at promoting the rights of LGBT people across Africa. With homophobia still rampant across the continent, the...
Things we know for a fact: homophobia is a norm in Nigeria. Maybe it’s the religion – because, you know, we’re very religious – but we...
Tanzania has seen its 2nd biggest donor Denmark withhold aid to the country after what was described as “unacceptable homophobic statements.” Punch reports that Denmark is...
What would you do when your dream suddenly takes on morbid, “abominable” elements to morph into a dreary nightmare? In “We Don’t Live Here Anymore”, a...
Unsuspecting ʌnsəˈspɛktɪŋ/ (Of a person or animal) not aware of the presence of danger; feeling no suspicion. Synonyms: unwitting, oblivious, unaware, unconscious, heedless, unmindful. On Twitter,...
People around the world are calling for equal rights for all, a movement which has also been taken up by the Nigerian youth. 2019 presidential aspirant Donald...
The BBC visited Kenya where they spoke to gay men who enjoy cross-dressing. The men discussed the discrimination they face and their battle for self-expression in...
Once upon a time, a very close friend and I were at a live show Somewhere-On-Lagos-Island. A woman was performing with a band, singing her heart...
The American Bible Society – a non-profit that translates and distributes the Bible – has asked that its employees abstain permanently from sex outside marriage or resign....
Menelaos Apostolou in his “ground-breaking” “magnum opus” declared that female queerness is an evolutionary trait. “A lot of men indicate a desire to have a partner...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has asked that the Federal Government not legalise same-sex unions, Punch reports. The statement is in response to British Prime Minister Theresa...
Minister of Power, Works & Housing, Babatunde Fashola was confronted on the rights of LGBT people at the ongoing Commonwealth Head of Governments Meeting (CHOGM) at Westminster, The...
British Prime Minister Theresa May has asked leaders of all Commonwealth nations to remove laws criminalising same-sex relationships, The Cable reports. May said this at the Commonwealth Head...
Over time, I have had different conversations with homophobic people. Their homophobia is valid, because they do not understand what it means when people have a...
January is like THAT guest who overstays his/her welcome, and I’m just so happy it is over. It reminds me of Hans Christian Andersen, author of...
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