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Battling Homophobia, Nigeria’s LGBTIQ+ Community Finds Safety In App

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In 2018, four men ambushed Richard Akuson in his hometown, Akwanga in Nasarawa State. They began to beat him as they accused him of being gay as well as spreading a gay agenda. His phone was seized and forcefully unlocked – they found more proof of his sexuality. To drive home their message, they poked his anus with sticks in mock but painful penetration.

Akuson would later write…

New chat and counseling mobile app for LGBTIQ+ Nigerians

NoStrings Development Initiatives, Nigeria’s leading LGBTIQ+ media advocacy group, has launched a new social and counseling mobile app for the country’s LGBTIQ+ community.

From the African Human Rights Media Network

Promotional Image for the Qtalk app.

Development of the app was boosted by a grant from a gay-friendly African funding group and by St. Paul’s Foundation for International…

Does Bisi Alimi care about gay Nigerians?

By Mike Daemon

Acclaimed Nigerian LGBT rights activist Bisi Alimi has made an “unapologetic” declaration to members of the Nigerian LGBT community that he is not fighting for them, but for himself. (more…)

30 Nigerians remain in custody on homosexuality charges

By Mike Daemon and Colin Stewart

Thirty Nigerian men remain behind bars awaiting a court hearing Aug. 8 on homosexuality charges.

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Nigerian court releases 2 charged with homosexuality

Nigerian police have dropped charges against two men accused of same-sex intimacy after they spent five months in prison.

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Death threats target protest against anti-gay video

A petition opposing a “comic” video about anti-gay violence has attracted nearly 500 supporters, but also death threats.

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Nigerian LGBT website fights blackmail

Cropped version of Gossip Mill’s photos (Photo courtesy of NoStringsNG and Gossip Mill)

NoStringsNG, a website that provides a voice for LGBT Nigerians, has again taken aim at blackmailers and disreputable journalists preying on their allegedly gay countrymen.

Gossip Mill, a Nigerian gossip and entertainment website, was the latest target of NoStringsNG, which objected to a Gossip Mill article…

Anti-LGBT group expands from U.S. to Nigeria

Anti-LGBT gathering described by MassResistance as “The core planning group of Nigeria MassResistance. They have big plans!”

The homophobic American anti-LGBT organization MassResistance has opened a branch in Nigeria.

The Massachusetts-based activists, listed as an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, spouts the usual anti-gay line, linking pedophilia to homosexuality,…