Tag "Homosexuality"
THE FIRST GAY COUPLE TO STAND JUDGMENT
It was Christmas Eve. My paternal extended family had a ritual of spending the day before Christmas Day together. Last year, it had been at Uncle Sebastian’s house at Elekahia
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
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
Overcoming The Abuse And The Lessons From ‘The Miseducation Of Cameron Post’
I recently read a tweet where the user called out a common failing of parenting. He said: “Just a quick reminder that the child you imagine in your head is
DEAR STRAIGHT PEOPLE (Episode 4)
For this episode, what Ani Kayode Somtochukwu has to say to straight people is in a tweet.
Opinion: Are Anti-Gay Witch Hunts Really Protecting ‘African Values’?
Homophobia, not homosexuality, is a western import to Africa. On October 29, governor of Tanzania’s largest city Dar-es-Salaam, Paul Makonda, announced that he formed an anti-gay unit to hunt
The Bible Does Not Obsess Over Homosexuality. Christians Do.
This write-up addresses issues raised in the last post about God, Heaven, and Hell. It also doubles as my reply to a KDian whom I had been having a back-and-forth
OPEN LETTER TO AN INTERNALLY-HOMOPHOBIC FRIEND
Dear X, I watched a movie called Prayers For Bobby. It’s a movie about the true life story of a young man, Bobby Griffith, who found out he was gay,
GETTING TO KNOW MY BEST FRIEND WHO’S GAY
FOREWORD: Another ally speaks the message of love. Her name is Sally Dadzie, and what she has to say is very compelling. Check on it. * When I met him,
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
