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HE SEES THE LIGHT

It had been a couple of weeks after the brutal attack on me and my friends in school; a couple of weeks after we decided that to not fight back,

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PROBLEMATIC GAY MEN YOU’VE EVER HAD SEX WITH

1. Those who’ll avert their face when you reach for a kiss, bringing you to the sudden sinking realization that they are not kissers.   2. Those who kiss, but

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STAY MAD!

I am very polite and nice. Too polite, as some friends and acquaintances have said to me. “You are too nice to be my son.” My mother says this to

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THE LIE THAT IS “I AM IN A RELATIONSHIP”

As a corps member serving in Abuja, not much had changed in my life, compared to the introverted life I led in Lagos. My interactions with the gay community didn’t

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Your Coming Out Should Be Their Loss, Not Yours

To commemorate the National Coming Out Day, which is today October 11, here is something from a KDian.   I never really had that coming out moment with the expected

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CHASING ROGUE (Part 2)

Previously on CHASING ROGUE… *** The above was the exchange that took place right as I was about to board a bus back to Aguda. As we texted back and

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CHASING ROGUE

I started doing some contract work for a publishing firm in Yaba, and since the commute from where I live is murder, I had to temporarily move in with a

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THE BISEXUAL STORY

I’ve always found bisexuality to be a bit like being half caste – blessed with multiple heritages whilst being cursed to never completely find home in any. The biphobia in

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DAYS OF OUR LIVES

LIFE I must belong to a lesser category of queers that self-discovered quite early. Even though I was born into a neighborhood that had a disproportionately higher number of girls

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TODAY IS THAT DAY

I am in my room upstairs. The semester is just beginning and the hostel is eerily quiet because many students are yet to resume. It is raining outside and the