Nigerian gay men

Reliving what happened to him was just too painful.

Nigeria is a cold-blooded :

He was always careful when he planned to see someone - but one arrangement shattered his life forever. The father of three met Jamal online. They had been chatting for some time when he finally decided to see him in person. Emmanuel, not his real name, described how he started chatting to a friend online, but had not realised his friend's account had been hijacked.

When he arranged to meet up men him, he was ambushed by a gang of around five men. Mohammed was about to get in the shower but once he had taken off his clothes, a group of men burst in and started beating him and demanding money.

Where are you from? BBC Africa Eye interviewed 21 people in all about their experiences gay men stereotypes being "kito'd". Living life in secret as a gay man in Nigeria was dangerous for Mohammed.

Speaking with a white hood pulled over his head and a mask to conceal his identity, he agreed to talk to the BBC as long as his anonymity was guaranteed. BBC Africa Eye investigates how blackmailers pose as potential dates on popular dating apps, only to extort, beat and even kidnap people.

What's the name of your parents? According to a group of activists who work with the LGBT community in Nigeria, around 15 to 20 people contact them each week with similar stories to Mohammed. When Nigeria passed some of the toughest anti-homosexuality laws in Africa, the internet became a place for the LGBT community to connect with others more safely - until criminal gangs went digital too.

The findings We asked 89 gay and bisexual Nigerian men to fill in questionnaires that asked them about self-stigma due to being gay and bisexual, quality of life and the coping strategies they gay. My son told me he loves his father. Mohammed broke nigerian at this point, wrenched off the white hood, got up, hid his face and began to cry.

He said he had grown fond of him, even trusted him, and so one afternoon he met Jamal in town and went back to his place. They said: 'What's the name of the school you attend?

figures from African history : Richard Akuson founded a magazine for gay men in Nigeria, it left him vulnerable in a place where homophobia is rife

A judge in a Nigerian court on Tuesday threw out a case against 47 men charged with public displays of affection with members of same sex, ending what had widely been seen as a test of the country. After sharing out the money between them, the gang let him go.

So I also gave them wrong information. He had kept his sexuality to himself - outwardly he was a married man raising a family. Even if his father is queer, he has no issues with that. He described the moment when a phone call to his son saved him from ending it all.

Warning: This article contains a reference to suicide. This type of blackmail, where an LGBT person is entrapped, is known in Nigeria's gay community as "kito" - the exact origin of the term is unclear. He lifts his hand to show the scar that remains at the base of his thumb from the attack.

Adebisi Ademola Alimi[1] (born 17 January ), known as Bisi Alimi, is a British-Nigerian gay rights activist, public speaker, blog writer and HIV/LGBT advocate who gained international attention when he became the first Nigerian to come out on television.

Jamal and the gang made a video of him, naked, begging them to let him go.