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TIERs’ Lekki Wellness Centre now offers free HIV treatment services

I’ve often gotten queries from KDians seeking HIV treatment in Lagos Island and its environs. Well, here’s good news. The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs) has a centre in Lekki,

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Kito Alert: A Word To The Wise

Before I go on to post the very scant details of this kito alert, I have to say something first. It’s gotten very disappointing, the kinds of reports that get

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There’s a Foreign Film Project that wants to document the lives of Nigerian Gay Men and Women on Camera

An international production company is looking for individuals in the Nigerian LGBT community who want to share their story in a high-end documentary. They are looking for people with compelling

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About 14 and the Queer Art Anthology

This is for your tweeps, there’s going to be an twitter chat between Brittle Paper and our very own Rapum Kambili, who happens to be the chief editor of the

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Which Big Brother Naija Hottie Would You Like To Win?

So yesterday, the Big Brother Naija House steamed up just a few degrees with the addition of two new housemates, Debie-Rise and Bassey. Just as every Obi, Eze and Harrison

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Things Someone Who Loved You Should Have Told You

Originally published on johnpavlovitz.com Words can do incredible damage, but they can’t hold a candle to silence. Often it is those words that have been withheld which leave the greatest

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A Prayer From Chinelo Okparanta’s ‘Under The Udala Trees’

I just finished reading the riveting novel by Chinelo Okparanta. And after a story that filled me at once with sadness and hope, here’s the segment of the book that

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Facebook Post Of The Day XIX

Have you gotten your copy of the Queer Art Anthology, We Are Flowers? Get yours and download for a friend too, gay or straight. Spread the word.

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14: An Anthology of Queer Art | Vol. 1: We are Flowers

The 13th of January is an unfortunate day in Nigeria’s history. It marks one of the nation’s greatest human rights failures. On that day in 2014, Nigeria gave homophobia full