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The Five Myths On Being Transgender

Originally published on washingtonpost.com Over the past few years, transgender issues have moved into the spotlight in a big way. Caitlin Jenner came out on prime-time TV. Laverne Cox was

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Gay Wars: The Battle of the Bitches, Or the Tops and Bottoms of Being Out in Nigeria

1. I would like to begin by saying that if you are visiting me, and you don’t want to be outed by association, then don’t bother. Add to that: I

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LGBTQIDONTKNOW: The Acronym Struggle Is Real

Originally published on advocate.com It used to be so simple. Before there was LGBTQ, there was gay and straight: gay man, gay woman, and straight man and straight woman. Some

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The Piece About The Kind Of People Who Love to Stay Friends with Their Exes

Originally published on broadly.vice.com For anyone who has ever wondered what kind of psychopath stays friends with their ex, a new study has sought to uncover why people with “dark

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A Story: WHY NIGERIA SHOULD ACCEPT US AND BE FAST ABOUT IT

The LGBT community members in Nigeria should have their rights to love and live recognized. That’s not arguable. There are all sorts of noble reasons why this should be, and

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The Hilarious Piece About The Prayer

Originally published on sagbachronicles.com * So it was my last day in my village, near Owerri, Nigeria. In four days, no kinsman or woman had asked me the dreaded marriage

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The Gay Switch

A contact of mine on BBM once put up as his display picture the photo of a friend of his who’s not based in Nigeria and who it seemed was

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THOSE VERY LONG MINUTES

The sun has become the source of such scalding pain these days. My mother has taken to saying that there would come a time when we wouldn’t need to use

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Four Applicants Awarded TIERs Funds For Quarter 1, 2016

The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs) is pleased to announce that the LGBT Community Fund has awarded a total of NGN 550,000 in funding to four recipients. The Application Review

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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

I met him in November 2010, two months after I got into the country for further studies. His name (for the purpose of this narration) is Chuks. My friend from