Photos: Meet 6 Nigerians Who Have Openly Declared Being Gay

                                      

According to a super blogger who compiled this list of guys/men who came out openly in public that they are gay and proud of their status. Most of them also want the anti-gay law inNigeria lifted.

The good news is that they are safe where they are because they do not live in Nigeria. It will be recalled that Kehinde Brandmuse is the latest of them all who only declared his status on his Facebook page yesterday. City People list out 8 openly men who have declared they are gay. Read more after the cut...

1. BISI ALIMI

                                     

He is the first Nigerian to openly declare his sexuality as a homosexual 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. REV. 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 homosexual 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. JOHN AMECHI

                             

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 Homosexuality on ESPN’s Outside the Lines program. He is the first NBA player to speak openly about being gay.

5. 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 heterosexual marriage as well as prevent homosexuals from getting quality medical care. He is another gay activist and an openly gay Nigerian residing in Abuja

6. JOHN ADEWOYE

                                      

John Adewoye is on self-imposed exile on grounds of his sexual 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 2003 .