There are a number of ways the crime of sexual violence can begin unfolding in one’s life. It is not always a rude shock moment, like in the case of…
Read MoreBy Marian Nwakolo Growing up, I was the child who dragged her parents to school to fight the management for making me an assistant class monitor while a boy was…
Read MoreIf you have ever had the strength to challenge a Nigerian to a discourse on their complacency in the systemic oppression of LGBT+ Nigerians, then you’ve at least once had…
Read More“The onus shouldn’t be on queer people to come out,” said YNaija's Bernard Dayo while responding to this piece we published last week, “the onus should be on cis-heterosexual people…
Read MoreNigerian YouTuber, Victor Emmanuel, popularly known as VicWonder has gone on indefinite hunger strike in a protest calling for the repeal of the infamous Same-Sex Prohibition Act, 2013 (SSMPA) that…
Read MoreThere is no defense beyond a myopic understanding of the two imperialist imported Abrahamic faiths – Christianity and Islam, for the harmful laws against gay people.
Read MoreOne of the bitterly memorable legacies of the Donald Trump presidency was his alignment with the Christian Right – even if only when it served him. Because for the first…
Read MoreWhat happens when a homophobic Nigerian gets denied a visa to an inclusive developed nation for their harmful view on homosexuality? It is no secret that the Nigerian dream for…
Read MoreA conversation about the claim of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, trans and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) community to the rainbow as a piece of iconography has hit the ground…
Read MoreFew human groups are as talked about, dissected, vilified and dismissed nowadays as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and other gender and sexual minorities (LGBTQ+) community. "But they are everywhere,…
Read MoreRapper and record label executive M.I Abaga recently started a podcast called 'Middle Ground', a non-conventional talk podcast he runs with April Maey where they just volley thoughts about any…
Read Moreby Itunuoluwa Adebo According to a Gallup poll released Monday, the Americans’ support for same-sex marriage is at all time high. 64 percent of adults surveyed said same-sex marriages should…
Read MoreFew days before the infamous Same Sex Prohibition Act was signed into law by former President Goodluck Jonathan, The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs), a sexual health advocacy organization based…
Read MoreDr. Reuben Abati, the former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan today explained his role in the signing of the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act into law in 2014 saying…
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Read MoreTwo years ago, the National Assembly passed an anti-LGBTI Law to what might be considered 'critical acclaim' by Nigerians. Nigerians are a people given to fiercely protecting their own but…
Read Moreby Adeola Balogun The crackdown on homosexuals in Uganda has continued to attract attention around the country with the list of the country's most popular gays being published in a…
Read Moreby Olusegun Obasanjo I preface my commentary on the debate about gay rights with the Structural Adjustment Programme to illustrate the West’s obsession with the adjustment of African societies. While…
Read Moreby Mz Agams It took organized, sophisticated and well funded gay rights movements in America and Europe decades of activism to earn the right to get married and only after they had…
Read Moreby Joseph Sewedo Akoro Homosexuality between men has been illegal in Nigeria for almost a century. And in northern Nigeria (no thanks to Sharia law), homosexuality between men and women…
Read MorePope Francis declared on Monday that it was not his place to judge homosexuals and said they should not be marginalised but condemned the gay lobby as a “serious problem”.…
Read Moreby Rachel Ogbu British Prime Minister, David Cameron has vowed to ‘export’ gay marriage around the world. Recently, at a party to celebrate the passage of legislation of gay marriage in…
Read Moreby Rachel Ogbu Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru (Photo: Punch) The Federal Government has accused the international community of hypocrisy saying it has been under pressure from them…
Read MoreA gay man was arrested this week at a Missouri hospital after refusing to the leave bedside of his sick partner. Roger Gorley went to Research Medical Center in Kansas…
Read MoreA Richland, Wash. couple is still trying to make sense of what they say were the hurtful, discriminatory actions by their favorite florist. For nearly a decade, Robert Ingersoll and his…
Read MoreThe Reverend Martin Ssempa, a homophobic pastor in Uganda who is well known for his lectures against homosexuality has stunned television viewers in Uganda by demonstrating with fruit and vegetables…
Read MoreAn Alabama woman is recovering after allegedly being attacked by her girlfriend's brother over Thanksgiving weekend. Though details of the case are continuing to emerge, NBC affiliate Local 15 reports…
Read MoreIn many African countries, it is illegal to be gay. 25 out of 38 African nations have passed laws that give varying degrees of prison sentences to people caught practicing homosexual…
Read MoreOne of the world’s leading psychologists recently apologised to the gay community for attempting to proffer a cure for homosexuality. 79-year-old Dr. Robert Spitzer considered by some to be the father…
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