1. BISI ALIMI
He is the first Nigerian to openly declare his s*xuality as a homos*xual on National Television as a guest on the defunct New Dawn With Funmi Iyanda(NTA) program in 2004.
2. KEHINDE BADEMOSI
The advertising guru behind Orange Academy came out as gay on 8th January 2015. He was married to a woman who knew for 6 years that he’s gay.
3. REVEREND JIDE MACAULAY
He is Nigeria’s first openly gay preacher and the founder of House of Rainbow Fellowship, a secret gay church in Lagos. He later relocated abroad after a major newspaper did a story on his homos*xual church and he started to get threats. He’s still running his gay church in the UK and has been speaking out publicly against the recently passed anti-gay law in Nigeria.
4. CHIKA NWAFOR-SCHWARTZ
He married his gay lover in 2010, and since then, they have been living together in Germany.
5. JOHN AMAECHI
Born in Boston, USA, in 1970. John Uzoma Ekwugha Amaechi is product of a Nigerian father and his English Mother. In February 2007, Amaechi spoke about his Homos*xuality on ESPN’s Outside the Lines program. He is the first NBA player to speak openly about being gay.
6. DR. OTIBHO OBIANWU
Another openly gay Nigerian, he was the spokesman of the Nigerian Lesbians, Gay, Bis*xual, Transs*xual and Inter-s*x living in diaspora at a rally in Abuja when the bill prohibiting same s*x marriage was passed by the senate House.
7. JOHN ADENIYI
He spoke up against the government in respect to the anti-gay bill been passed as he highlighted that passing of such bill would only encourage heteros*xual marriage as well as prevent homos*xuals from getting quality medical care. He is another gay activist and an openly gay Nigerian residing in Abuja.
8. JOHN ADEWOYE
John Adewoye is on self-imposed exile on grounds of his s*xual orientation and because of the danger of living as an openly gay man in Nigeria. Resident in Nigeria, he came out to family and friends in July 200
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