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Stop Normalizing Homophobia (The Importance of Language)
Language is a very important tool — for communication, for advocacy, for oppression. I think it’s a fairly popular thing to say that language is important, at least in some
MY HOMOSEXUAL JOURNEY
I was your typical born-again teenager. Pious looking. Academic. I didn’t speak to girls if I could help it. I simply loved the Lord! I went to a Christian secondary
THE BEST MAN
One of the easiest decisions I made when I was getting married was in my choice of a best man. Emma had always been a close family friend and an
ONE MILLION NAIRA AND MY HOMOSEXUALITY WAS FOR SALE
It was 2016 and I was browsing through Badoo (Badoo was my choice app for hookups because of the demographic I am attracted to. I like older men and I’d
IF I HAD TO WRITE A SUICIDE NOTE
I am not going to kill myself. Not yet, at least. But if I make up my mind to do that, I would write a suicide note. If I had
Guarding You Against You
Some days ago, I saw a post on Facebook by a woman who’d been hitting on me a while ago. She was getting married to my cousin. And the first
I Would Call Us Champions
I wouldn’t call us crazy or mad. Are we echoes? Are we heroes? Sinking into deep and hellish pits, hitting devasting lows. We carry this cross. You don’t see our
TURN THE LIGHTS ON (Part 2)
Previously on TURN THE LIGHTS ON… * Just before the end of our clinical posting, before our pathology block posting, I had a hook-up with someone. I went to his
TURN THE LIGHTS ON
Every moment of my life, I am confronted one way or another by the reality of the feelings I have that are unlike what is the norm. My earliest memories
LIVING GAY AND FABULOUS
There are two gifts that being a part of the community of Kito Diaries has given me when regarding my sexuality, and those are confidence and caution. Reading so many
