Tag: LGBT+
Down The Memory Lane: A journey of acceptance
I The first time I thought queer lives matter, I am standing at the boarding students’ dining hall with some ...
#BisexualPrideDay: The dummies guide to understanding that biphobia is not human
In a country where pride in anything outside of the straight and narrow is heavily frowned upon, and bisexuality is ...
Who is looking out for LGBT+ children in the conversation about sexual violence?
There are a number of ways the crime of sexual violence can begin unfolding in one’s life. It is not ...
#PrideMonth: Long distance Relationships as an Aesthetic of Queer Love
By Damilola Aremo A few months ago, someone had asked a question on Twitter. It was one of those question-type ...
The anatomy of self-loathing: Understanding homophobia and internalised homophobia
Ask around about homophobia, “What does it mean and how does it best manifest?” If you chance upon a cis-heterosexual ...
The French meddle: How the action of the French ambassador to Ghana encourages homophobic violence against LGBT+ Ghanaians
The ongoing spectacle of intolerance in the small West African country of Ghana is no longer news. Unless you are ...
#EndSARS: 2 Queer men and 1 straight man unravel where we went wrong
There are events too traumatic even for the human memory – its evolved glory notwithstanding – to hold in a ...
Where “Out and Proud” does not have to be bare-faced
An acquaintance made a passing remark that started a conversation on whether we can call a public declaration of who ...
#PrideMonth: Long distance Relationships as an Aesthetic of Queer Love
By Damilola Aremo A few months ago, someone had asked a question on Twitter. It was one of those question-type ...
#PrideMonth Special: True story of two men who thought they could love openly
By Omoleye Omoruyi “Ade! What are you saying? Tell me, what are you saying?” Ade’s mom shouted on top of ...
#PrideMonth: Love will liberate us
By Ado Aminu Aminu In exploring love, we often fixate unhealthily on one kind of love – romantic love. It ...
#PrideMonth: The Gospel of the Nigerian Messiah, as told to me by the Lord Himself
By Kanyinsola Olorunnisola When the boy was five, when he first learned about Jesus Christ, about a white man performing ...
#PrideMonth: Non-Binary Chat discusses pointers in building your own affirming family as a queer person
Picture this: a friendship of 22 years dissolves into, “Just to be safe, I will sleep in the parlour.” Just ...
#PrideMonth: Love is everything but love; a queer Muslim man’s experience with love
By Phaysal Phagge It is difficult to write about love when everything you know about it has been anything but, ...
What it means when we tell LGBT+ Nigerians: “Keep it to yourselves, no one cares”
If you have ever had the strength to challenge a Nigerian to a discourse on their complacency in the systemic ...
#PrideMonth: Introducing ‘Loving in Colour – The Heart of Defiance’ | A #YNaijaSpecial
By Ayodele Olofintuade When Non-binary writer, Ado Aminu approached me to collaborate with YNaija to curate this year’s Pride Month ...
YNaija Non-Binary Chat tackles the question, “What is the place of gay Muslims in the eyes of Allah (SWT)?”
There are many ways to be a Muslim LGBT+ person, but I have only ever allowed myself to contemplate either ...
#PansexualAndPanromanticDayOfVisibility | 5 things you shouldn’t say to a pan person
Not many people even in the LGBTQ+ community pay any mind to pansexuality and panromanticism. The mere mention of the ...
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia: The LGBTQ+ resist from the church to the street
One thing that LGBTQ+ people can’t be said to be bad at, is resisting their oppression by whatever means available. ...
The sexuality of LGBT+ people is allowed to evolve
Perhaps because the fight for LGBT+ rights in Nigeria is still in its waddling infancy, there is a lot of ...
The term ‘Kito’ diminishes the gravity of crimes committed against the LGBT+
At the beginning of the journey to go meet his year-long virtual friend, Ahmed, 24-year-old student, was apprehensive about the ...
On family | The LGBT+ experience
Social ostracism is perhaps the strongest tool in the arsenal of exclusionary societies. It says, “If you do this or ...
The ache of silence | Intimate partner violence in LGBT+ relationships
It is an open secret that the laws against same-sex relationships notwithstanding LGBT+ people find ways to love in Nigeria. ...
Trans Day of Visibility | What it means to live and love as a transwoman in Nigeria (A true story)
In celebration of Trans Day of Visibility, we interviewed transfeminist activist, Somi, on what it is like to live and ...
The selective activism of Nigerian celebrities has been called to question, thanks to Lil Nas X
If you haven’t heard of the latest video from openly gay American rapper, Lil Nas X, by now then that ...
3 LGBT+ Nigerians share what inspired them to come out of the closet
Human beings have an ever expanding list of wants, these things vary from person to person and more often than ...
Exploring gender through the viewpoint of Igbo Spirituality
by Obinna Tony-Francis Ochem There is a story told of Area Scatter, a crossdresser who played an ornamental thumb piano ...
‘Human rights violation of the LGBT+:’ Are you playing your part?
“I don’t have a problem with gay people, just don’t bring that thing near me.” This is a go-to comeback ...
Gay Rights for all | US Government memorandum on global LGBT+ rights could backfire
One of the bitterly memorable legacies of the Donald Trump presidency was his alignment with the Christian Right – even ...
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