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Adebisi Alimi: Same-sex attracted Nigerian Actor Puts His Sexuality In The Spotlight
Adebisi Alimi is the first person ever to come out as gay on Nigerian television. But that wasn't what the 29-year-old wanted to be acknowledged for back in 2004.
Alimi's acting career was just starting to grab off when his sexuality stole the spotlight. The scholar newspaper at University of Lagos, where he was studying theater, threatened to publish a photo of him with his then-boyfriend. So Alimi beat them to the punch. He went on "New Dawn with Funmi," one of the most accepted talk shows in Nigeria, and challenged a long-held doctrine that homosexuality was brought to Africa by white colonizers. That was also the year Alimi was diagnosed with HIV.
Suddenly, his home country no longer saw him as a rising star. Alimi clueless his roles on TV and on stage, many of his friends shunned him and the police even arrested him on unexplained charges. In 2007, things got worse. He was detained at the airport on his way back from the United Kingdom, where he gave an interview to BBC Network Africa, and was released two days later. Then a group of men entered his home and attempted to kill him. Alimi fled to the
LGBTQ+ Nigerians Are Celebrating Pride Month in Defiance of Anti-Gay Law
By Pelumi Salako
ILORIN, Nigeria, June 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — YouTuber Victor Emmanuel knows first-hand how tough life is for people who are openly homosexual in Nigeria, where LGBTQ+ relationships and even same-sex displays of affection are illegal.
Last year, he was kidnapped by seven men who blackmailed, extorted, and tortured him for two days in an attack that has since left him constantly looking over his shoulder.
"It is living with the fear of possible killing or incarceration for who I literally am. You are constantly having to elucidate your existence," said Emmanuel, who dropped out of university after the attack.
This month, however, he will be joining LGBTQ+ Pride events in Lagos as campaigners band together to party and share stories in defiance against laws and conservative societal norms that limit their rights and self-expression.
"Pride month means a month to celebrate my queerness because most of the month I'm fighting, struggling, and pushing back at society," said Emmanuel, a 24-year-old who runs the "For Fags Sake" YouTube channel about Nigerian LGBTQ+ issues. "
Yesterday the Nigerian Senate passed a bill to prohibit same-sex marriage, as well as gay representation groups and public displays of same-sex affection. The bill imposes a 14 year sentence for those who are convicted of homosexuality and 10 year sentences for anyone who assists lgbtq+ couples in marrying. The Nigerian House of Representatives will now vote on the bill and if passed, it will leave to President Goodluck Jonathan to sign.
Erwin van der Borght, director of Amnesty International’s Africa program, stated, “The bill will expand Nigeria’s already draconian punishments for consensual same-sex conduct and set a precedent that would threaten all Nigerians’ rights to privacy, equality, free expression, association, and to be free from discrimination.”
Approximately a month before the bill passed the Senate, British Prime Minister David Cameron issued a threat to stop aid from going to nations that violate the rights of homosexuals. Cameron remarked in a statement, “British aid should contain more strings attached in terms of ‘do you persecute people for their faith or their Christianity or do you persecute people for their sex
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