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16 February 2009
Nigeria tells UN that it doesn't have a gay community
PinkNews.co.uk
17 July 2008
Nigeria's only gay Christian ministry, House of Rainbow MCC, featured on CNN
revrowlandjidemacaulay.blogspot.com
14 July 2008 publication date - Cover date 21 July 2008.
Nigerian Archbishop Akinola features in a Newsweek photograph and accompanying article about the opposition in Africa to accepting gay priests and gay marriages within the Anglican Church.
Newsweek.com
12 July 2008
Writer in the Nigerian Saturday Sun asks whether IVF is morally right and ponders the "worrying" use of IVF by gay couples. "More worrisome is the fact that lesbians and homosexuals are now having children of their own........Of course, this is against established or acceptable societal norms......how would a child feel when he grows to discover that both parents are same sex ?"
The Saturday Sun
12 July 2008
Nigerian Bishop, The Right Rev Cyril Okorocha, will attend the Lambeth Conference in England despite instructions from Dr Peter Akinola, the Nigerian primate, to boycott the conference in order to demonstrate the Nigerian church's complete opposition to gay bishops and marriages. The maverik bishop however let it be known through a source that he wanted to show his support for Anglican unity.
VirtueOnline.com
12 July 2008
"As homosexuality continues to gain grounds worldwide, men have suddenly become 'rape -able'" is one of the more unusual quotations seemingly associating gay culture and male rape from this article on "Reforming Rape Laws" in the Nigerian Daily Trust
Article by the Daily Trust carried on AllAfrica.com
11 July 2008
The British Daily Telegraph newspaper, conventionally regarded as a conservative newspaper, lists a Nigerian gay rights advocate, Davis Mac-Iyalla, at no. 42 in its' list of the most influential figures in the Anglican church.
Telegraph.co.uk
9 July 2008
Young Nigerian dancer and blogger writes online poem seemingly blaming gays for (presumably spiritually) raping the country -
"A crippled nation, sitting hopelessely in the dark
Yet her sons and daughters has become homosexuals overnight
Raping her in broad day light"
qudus.blogspot.com
8 July 2008
Deportation of a Nigerian bisexual woman from Canada has been temporarily deferred
xtra.ca
4 July 2008
Nigerian gay rights campaigner freed from British detention centre
PinkNews.co.uk
31 March 2008
Nigerian Islamic scholar interviewed on the subjects of sex education and homosexuality.
jurnal-farmasi.blogspot.com
22 March 2008 onwards
Discussion on "Where do the gay men hang out in Nigeria ?"
Beware of possible offensive comments
Lonely Planet - The Thorn Tree
21 March 2008
Nigerian gay Christian leader beaten in brutal attack
UKGayNews.org.uk
13 March 2008
House of Rainbow pastor, Jide Macaulay, discusses ideas with other Nigerian christians coming out of a bible study group and notes that Jesus never said anything negative on the subject of homosexuality or gay people
revrowlandjidemacaulay.blogspot.com
9 March 2008
Nigerian actor, Raz Adeoti, talks about preparing for his role as a gay man in a new hollywood film
NigeriaFilms.com - ModernGhana.com
6 March 2008
Blogger Jide Macaulay, otherwise known as the Rev. Jide Macaulay - the Pastor of House Of Rainbow in Lagos, laments the flight of gay Nigerians to Europe and hopes that the gay Nigerian community will organize and find support from one another.
revrowlandjidemacaulay.blogspot.com
4 march 2008
Man caught loitering near Lagos international airport with 22 pairs of women's pants and several make-up kits is sentenced to 18 months in prison for cross-dressing.
BBC News
2 March 2008
Nollywood star, Alex Lopez, talks about her "unenviable lesbian tag".
SunNewsOnline.com
29 February 2008
Nigerian police arrest man at Lagos International Airport for posing as a woman
ThisDayOnline.com
24 February 2008
Nollywood (the Nigerian movie industry) is handicapped by sexism and homophobia. Interestingly the only on-screen same sex relationships have been lesbian.
Vanguard Online
18 February 2008
Nigerian sharia trial of eighteen men accused of attending a "gay wedding" set to go ahead on 24th March
PinkNews.co.uk
18 January 2008
The Rev Michael Bresciani, who lives in America, applauds the Nigerian Anglican Church's no compromise view against accepting gay clergy and gay marriages and hopes that Americans too can take a stand against such "wholesale immorality"
ezineseeker.com
14 January 2008
Rag Tag, a new film on a gay love affair between a Nigerian and a West Indian man is set in London and Lagos
wanderingcaravan-bronzebuckaroo.blogspot.com
11 January 2008
Nigerian man's appeal for asylum in the United States on grounds of his sexuality and fear of persecution are rejected - New York Law School Professor Arthur Leonard sums up a Chicago court appeal case .
newyorklawschool.typepad.com
11 January 2008
Home of 17 year old Ogbogoro gay boy "allegedly burned" to the ground.
The Tide News
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3 January 2008
Article in Virtueonline - "The Voice for Global Orthodox Anglicism" - attacks the pro-gay Nigerian Anglican reform movement - Changing Attitudes.
VirtueOnLine.com
28 December 2007
Dickson Iruegbu shoots "Sinful Saints" - Nigeria's first gay movie.
ModernGhana.com
3 December 2007 -
Nigerian "gay marriage" trial postponed because
key prosecution witnesses are on haj.
AllAfrica.com
9 November 2007 -
Anti-Gay Nigeria Loses Bid to Host Commonwealth Games.
EdgeBoston.com
8 November 2007 -
Anglican Bishops in Nigeria Urged Not to Attend London Conference.
AllAfrica.com
News 29 August 2007 -
Gay Rights Campaigner Peter Tatchell comments on Nigeria's anti-gay witch-hunt
News 21 August 2007 -
Riot over court's "lenient" treatment of cross-dressers.
News 29 April 2007 -
Nigerian Archbishop to install American anti-gay bishop
News 27 April 2007 -
A Nigerian lesbian who "married" four women last weekend in Kano State has gone into hiding from the Islamic police, with her partners.
21 February 2007
Homophobic article which includes opinions such as "The only right the Nigerian homosexuals and lesbians have is their right to be taken to the hospitals......for treatment. Those who are sick should not be going about advertising their sickness."
Allafrica.com and Mask.org.za
14 February 2007
Nigeria moves to tighten anti-gay laws
BBC
Opinion article congratulates the Nigerian government for its' firm stand against homosexuality but hopes the proposed new legislation to ban gay marriage will be strictly enforced
This Day Lagos article on Mask.org
15 February 2005
Nigerian transvestite fined and sentenced to six months in prison
BBC
24 August 2004
A teenage Nigerian transvestite faces jail after first appearance before an Islamic Sharia court
AFP - Mail and Guardian - ( immediate source - Mask.org.za )
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