In a world rife with contradictions and the relentless struggle for identity acceptance, two controversial figures in Nigeria’s crossdressing scene, ...
Love Offers No Safety — phenomenal and thought-provoking prose that has been given wholesale to the Nigerian community. The anthology ...
As society progresses towards greater acceptance and understanding of LGBTQ+ individuals, it’s easy to assume that the practice of gay ...
I The first time I thought queer lives matter, I am standing at the boarding students’ dining hall with some ...
Ask around about homophobia, “What does it mean and how does it best manifest?” If you chance upon a cis-heterosexual ...
If you have ever had the strength to challenge a Nigerian to a discourse on their complacency in the systemic ...
For some time now, LGBTQ Ghanaians have been living in fear and isolation stemming from the constant attacks that Ghanaian ...
When writer and curator, Nelson C. J., went in search of church as a queer Nigerian, he found something that ...
Colonial History of Anti-LGBTQ+ laws in Nigeria Prior to Nigeria’s colonisation, there is nothing to show violence was perpetrated against ...
Nigeria’s small but richly vibrant corner of Twitter is not the place anyone will go to for nuanced conversation about ...
With its avowed conservatism and self-proclaimed devotion to traditional values, Nigeria’s public discussion landscape is seeing an increase in conversations ...
What happens when a homophobic Nigerian gets denied a visa to an inclusive developed nation for their harmful view on ...
Few human groups are as talked about, dissected, vilified and dismissed nowadays as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and other ...
For Ace (not real name) Christmas was never the joy-filled celebration his siblings swear to the heavens it has always ...
They asked the Pharoah, what made you a tyrant? He said: No one stopped me – Arabic proverb. Many of ...
Last year, I wrote a piece on CNN during Pride Month—a month set aside to celebrate sexual and gender diversity ...
Nothing that Reno Omokri tweets should surprise you. The former media aide to erstwhile president Goodluck Jonathan has managed to ...
Follow the links to read the stories and analyses on YNaija: Why Nigerians are not shocked by Trump’s “lifeless” description ...
According to Twitter newscasters, Nigeria’s favourite Snapchat sensation, Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, who goes by Bobrisky, has been arrested. Bobrisky got ...
At this point in the game, it is literally expected that when a person does protest too much about the ...
Less than a month ago, we wrote about an American governor’s aide who was relieved of his job because of ...
Last week sunday, a man in Florida was shot to death by a drunk homophobe because this man chose to ...
Last week Friday, a number of Nigerian activists, writers, journalists, non-denominational religious people, Christians and Muslims all gathered at the ...
It is a thing of wonder to watch Nigerians wax end time biblical when matters of sexuality arise. They are ...
So there was this article on TheNakedConvos (which after that disastrous episode with the adaptation of their web series Our ...
Follow these links to read our cover stories and analyses on YNaija today: Homosexuality on the increase, FG laments Buhari ...
Over the past few years, debates on homosexuality have taken the forefront in mainstream media. As with every new movement ...
Few days before the infamous Same Sex Prohibition Act was signed into law by former President Goodluck Jonathan, The Initiative ...
Bigot (noun) big·ot \ˈbi-gət\ {Merriam Webster Dictionary} : a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. ...
by Lucas Togan It is interesting and pertinent to note that homosexuality was once viewed as a mental condition. In ...