Tag "Femmephobia"

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The Voice Of A Homosexual

Growing up effeminate gave me a notoriety that was as shocking as it was unwelcome. Imagine being known EVERYWHERE you went because you did not fit in the norm. Imagine

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BLUNTS & CHIMNEY (Love Thy Inner Woman)

I met Odera on Grindr. My Grindr chatting style is the type where I am very nonchalant, give lots of monosyllabic responses, and stay very active with my block button

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THE INTERVIEW

After a successful interaction between the interviewer and I… The interviewer: We’ll call you on Monday. Me: Thank you very much, sir. I am rising from my seat, when –

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Pedophilia, Femmephobia and Misogyny: A Problematic Gay Man Gets Charged With These And Then Some

Nigerian Gay Twitter generates a lot of drama that we often observe from a distance. But when a consistently problematic member of the community gets exposed for all the ways

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“How can you be homosexuals and be toxic like this?” Gay porn star Austin Wolf rebukes femmephobia, following nasty comments posted on his Instagram post

Austin Wolf recently posted a preview of his upcoming scene on social media. But there were many nasty / bullying comments toward his scene partner @MisaelSexxxy. The comments targeting Wolf’s

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I SEE MONSTERS

1 “I do not know how monsters are made, but I know that they are.” – Wole Soyinka, A Play of Giants (Paraphrased). It must have been in Primary five

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STAND UP AND WALK

“Are you effeminate?” “I hope you don’t do like a woman…” These are the questions anyone who gets around on the dating/hookup block would usually get. Different people deal with

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Opinion: The Stress From The Speculation Of Shawn Mendes’ Sexuality Is Another Consequence of Femmephobia

Shawn Mendes, like early 2000s Lindsay Lohan, is tired of rumors startin’. In a lengthy profile released Monday in Rolling Stone, Mendes opened up about anxiety, his love of weed

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The Category is: MASC4MASC, NO FEMMES ALLOWED

Growing up, I was always feminine, and as with all things that trigger unease in the supposed moral fabric of an average Nigerian, it became a source of undue attention.

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Femme Guys Need To Man Up? Seriously?

There is a hilarious tint to femmephobia in that homosexual men are sometimes the ones keenest to peddle it. From quotes about how God created you masc not femme to