The new bill is set to provide a new measure that calls for a punishment of six months in jail or a fine of about $1,200 for cross-dressers. isn't this absurd! the citizen of a country can not dress in whichever way they deem fit any longer. na wa o
Dressed in rainbow-colored vests, members of the LGBTQ community marched in a risky demonstration in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, to protest the absurd bill introduced by lawmakers in Nigeria’s lower house of parliament in February seeking to ban cross-dressing in Nigeria.
Exactly two weeks after this bill was introducesed in the House, a mob attacked a transgender woman and was beaten and stripped in Lagos.
This is an outcome LGBTQ activists feared and the reason we say we’re fighting back. Kayode Ani is a chair at the Queer Union for Economic and Social Transformation or QUEST9ja.
What laws like this do is that they basically encourage people to take violence into their own hands, just as we had after the SSMPA was passed — individuals forming vigilantes and going into people’s homes because they suspect that they’re queer, beating them, murder them.”
The cross-dressing bill is an expanded version of Nigeria’s 2013 Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act that punishes gay sex with up to 14 years in prison.
The bill would only allow comedians to cross-dress for entertainment purposes, which will definately worsen the existing violence against nonbinary or transgender people.
12 March 2022
Breaking the Bias
There has a misunderstanding of what we mean by breaking the bia.
23 January 2022
Stop stigmatizing LGBTQ
Bolu Okupe the son of former presidential special Assistant on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe recently posted on social media on why he feels LGBTQ can be less stigmatized against suggesting that a lot of women in Africa are married to bisexuals without knowing.
His post reads:” Bisexuality within the Black / African communities should be more openly discussed and less stigmatized. In Black / African communities the topic of bisexuality (usually amongst men) is almost as taboo of a discussion as homosexuality. The issue that a lot of bisexual men face is that both the heterosexuals as well as other Gay men will be very quick to brand them as simply gay & in denial because many of the people on both sides ignorantly have the opinion that once you are open or fluid enough to same-sex attraction & experiences, it makes you automatically gay/lesbian, which is not the case.
“So it can sometimes be understandable (however not excusable) why a large portion of Black/African bisexual men choose to remain in the closet and hide under the straight umbrella in order to avoid the vapid & relentless judgments from both sides, the “straights” and the “gays”. In all of this, the people affected the most are the women who will have no idea of the kind of double lives their husbands live. This is a direct result of the toxic & backward culture that many women also, unfortunately, participate in which in turn actually affects them negatively. As a woman, you, your mother, sister or daughter could be currently married to or will eventually marry a bisexual man”.
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