The controversial Gay Activist Bisi Alimi in his new article publish on medium. com said Nigeria LGBT are feeling the heat of heat claiming the hate towards LGBT people in Nigeria is propelled by ignorance, fear, “politricking” and religious sensationalism. Most humans fear what they do not understand, while others try to understand, rationalized and make a decision. Unfortunately, the former holds sway in Nigeria and homosexuality is discussed within the framework of right and wrong, good and bad, human and subhuman and all entrenched on the borrowed culture of the Bible and Quran.
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| Gay men paraded naked on the street of Owerri, Imo State, South East Nigeria in 2014 after the law was signed |
Two years ago, on 7th January 2014, in the secret of the Nigerian presidential villa Aso Rock, President Goodluck Jonathan signed theSame Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act of 2013. It was one of the most vicious and draconian pieces of legislation to come out of Nigeria and Africa in 2014.
I was at home when I got the call that the law has been signed. I felt sad and dejected when I heard the news.
Of
course, this type of persecution is not new. Nigeria’s government’s
victimization and criminalization of its Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender (LGBT) community dates back to the pre-colonial period when
the British, in the glory of their empire, left the country with a “sodomy law.”
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