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Why “We All Belong” – Pride in Lagos 2023 Theme

The message of this year's Pride in Lagos theme underscores the importance of inclusivity and acceptance of all individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic that sets them apart from others in Lagos, Nigeria, and West Africa.

Defining “We All Belong”:

“We All Belong” is a statement that recognizes that everyone deserves to be treated with respect and dignity, regardless of their individual differences. It is a call to action to embrace diversity and inclusivity and to reject discrimination and intolerance. At its core, “We All Belong” is a message of unity, community, and acceptance of minority communities in Nigeria.

Why “We All Belong” Matters:

The fight against different discrimination and prejudice experienced particularly by individuals who identify as LGBTQ+ in West Africa is still at large. Despite significant progress in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights, there is still a long way to go. LGBTQ+ individuals in Nigeria continue to face religious harassment, police, and societal violence, and legislative discrimination which has led to continuous disenfranchisement of the queer body, ensuring a sense of isolation, shame, and exclusion. The “We All Belong” message is an essential reminder that everyone is welcome, and everyone deserves to be treated with respect and dignity.

Creating a Sense of Belonging in a Sensitive socio-political Climate:

The role of Lagos in the socio-economic and political atmosphere of West Africa is undeniable, likewise our beloved country’s impact on Africa. As the world experiences a rise in anti-LGBTQI+ legislation in a global economic recession, it is very imperative that we care for our very own community across the board! inviting everybody to the table, building community, amplifying conversations, and building systems.

We look forward to a Power Pride week this year!

with YOU!

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Careers PRIDE

Pride in Lagos 2023 – Call for Journalists

Are you passionate about telling powerful stories and amplifying the voices of underrepresented communities? Do you want to be a part of an exciting and impactful project that celebrates the diverse and vibrant culture of Lagos? If so, we want to hear from you!

The Pride in Lagos 2023 team is looking for talented writers and journalists to collaborate with us on a series of features for Gay Times, one of the world’s leading LGBTQ+ publications. We’re seeking pitches for compelling, thought-provoking pieces that explore the experiences and perspectives of LGBTQ+ people in Lagos. And in accordance with the theme of the year: WE ALL BELONG

Each feature should be between 800 and 1,000 words in length and will be compensated at a rate of £200 per piece upon publication. We’re looking for stories that showcase the rich experiences of queer experiences of Lagos.

If you’re interested in working with us on this exciting project, please send us your pitch along with a brief bio and writing samples to info@queercitypodcast.com. We can’t wait to hear from you!

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Why “We All Belong” – Pride in Lagos 2023 Theme

The message of this year’s Pride in Lagos theme underscores the importance of inclusivity and acceptance of all individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic that sets them apart from others in Lagos, Nigeria, and West Africa. Defining “We All Belong”: “We All Belong” is a statement that recognizes that…

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Save The Date – Pride in Lagos 2023

We are thrilled to announce that Pride Lagos 2023 will be taking place from June 12th to June 18th, 2023! This year’s celebration promises to be bigger and better than ever before, as we come together to celebrate love, diversity, and inclusion. Pride Lagos is an annual event that brings together members and allies of…

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PRESS RELEASE – PRIDE IN LAGOS 2022

Lagos, Nigeria/ West Africa – Thursday, June 02, 2022 Queercity Media and Productions – The parent organization of the renowned Queercity Podcast and Pride in Lagos, West Africa’s destination pride event has announced the official lineup for our 2022 Pride in Lagos Festival, “Pride In Lagos” slated for June 20th to 26th 2022 is a Hybrid event. Pride…

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Events PRIDE

Save The Date – Pride in Lagos 2023

We are thrilled to announce that Pride Lagos 2023 will be taking place from June 12th to June 18th, 2023! This year’s celebration promises to be bigger and better than ever before, as we come together to celebrate love, diversity, and inclusion.

Pride Lagos is an annual event that brings together members and allies of the LGBTQ+ community to celebrate our identities and promote acceptance and understanding. Our mission is to create a safe and inclusive space where everyone can be their authentic selves, without fear of discrimination or prejudice.

This year’s festivities will include a range of events, including a ball, live music performances, art exhibitions, poster challenge, and much more. We are also excited to announce that we will be partnering with local organizations and businesses to bring you a diverse and engaging program of activities.

So mark your calendars and get ready to show your pride! Whether you’re a member of the LGBTQ+ community or an ally, we welcome you to join us in this celebration of love, unity, and acceptance. Stay tuned for more details and announcements, and don’t forget to spread the word to your friends and family.

We can’t wait to see you at Pride Lagos 2023!

Warmly,

The Pride Lagos Organizing Committee

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Pride in Lagos 2023 – Call for Journalists

Are you passionate about telling powerful stories and amplifying the voices of underrepresented communities? Do you want to be a part of an exciting and impactful project that celebrates the diverse and vibrant culture of Lagos? If so, we want to hear from you! The Pride in Lagos 2023 team is looking for talented writers…

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Call For Anthology

Dear Writers/Poets, Please write 1-4 pages about your Queer Resilience in the past year from June 2021 to April 2022. Such resilience could be your participation in a protest, your love, friendship, your chosen family, your house, your Twitter community, etc. Include your name or your pen name. Label your story as ” ‘Story” or…

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Audition for DragHerThon

Hi Drags Fill out this form and Make a one-minute video answering; Why you are auditioning for Dragherthon, and what it would feel like to be the winner of the first official Drag Competition in West Africa ? Upload it on Instagram using #PrideInLagos#DragherthonAudition before June 01, 2022. Note that: The final stage of this event would…

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Creators spotlight

Bisi Alimi – GRAND MARSHALL PRIDE IN LAGOS 2022

Executive coach, researcher, public speaker (He/Him)

Bisi Alimi is the Founder and Executive Director of the Bisi Alimi Foundation. He is an “Angelic Troublemaker Incarnate” and an internationally renowned Business and Executive coach, researcher, public speaker, policy analyst, television pundit, campaigner, and community builder with expertise in sexual health and human and LGBT rights. He has headlined many international events as a keynote speaker, using his story to create meaning and purpose for his audience.
He has appeared on many international television stations, including CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, CCTV, and outlets like NPR and the Washington Post have profiled him. He consults for World Bank on the Economic Impact of Homophobia and serves on the Bank advisory board on SOGI.
Bisi Alimi is a fellow of; Aspen Institute New Voices, Salzburg Global, The Moth, Synchronous Leadership among others. As a philanthropist, Alimi has committed not just his vision, time, and energy, but his finances to creating economic opportunities for Nigerian startups irrespective of sexuality, gender, or disability.
His TEDx talk, “There should never be another Ibrahim” was listed as one of the 14 most inspiring queer TEDtalks of all time. He won the first London Moth slam and was a storyteller at a recent London Moth Main Stage. His article The Development Cost of Homophobia has been
translated into over 15 languages. His most recent article for the Guardian: “If You Say Being Gay Is Not African, You Don’t Know Your History”, has been cited in many news articles globally.
Alimi was a consultant with the World Bank on the Economic Impact of Homophobia and serves on the World Bank advisory board on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
He firmly believes that for companies to profit, they have a purpose, and that purpose must have people at its core. This has led him to start a new venture, ‘ZIHONE’- a human resource and consultancy firm that supports businesses to tap into their staff potentials by providing, amongst other things, team support, team bonding, research, bespoke recruitment and training.

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Call for Archival Materials Submission

Attention all activists, archivists, individuals, and organizations with archival material related to the Nigerian LGBTQI+ community! We at Haus II Gallery are excited to announce an open call for submissions of archival material related to the Nigerian LGBTQI+ community. This call is an effort to preserve the history and narratives of the Nigerian LGBTQI+ community…

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Third Cafe – Second Edition

This February Edition hosted the Live painting of “VOID: Perfect Imperfection” by Nigerian Non-Binary abstract artist Babatunde Tribe of @1002arts on the 18th of February 2023, at 1 PM The Third Cafe provided the one-of-a-kind afternoon of art, coffee, and movies., with relaxed and contemporary setting. Light refreshments were served, and Jazz music to keep…

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Community Talks

Put your colors on

by Adunni Tiwatope | June 1st, 2021 2:10pm

Red means life, Orange means healing, yellow wants you to shine, green means nature, blue means serenity and purple mean spirit.
The first Pride was a protest outside the Stonewall Inn in New York in 1969, led by Black transgender women in likes Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and others in good memories.
1st of June of every year marks the celebration of PRIDE month, a celebration of colours, style, reality and struggles of the LGBTQ+…..all over the world, we hit the street to protest for the rights and freedom of ourselves and for others across the globe, we seek justice for people who lost their lives to homophobia, transphobia and injustice of any kind resulting from their sexuality.

Sadly, in the case of Africa when it comes to sexuality discussions, privileges are respected over rights, the societal values and norms are strongly held and a little smell of deviance to the societal norms is instantly terminated.

This made LGBTQ+ people in Africa most especially in Nigeria and other West African countries live in fear. Pride month is a month to protest for rights in loud colours and styles in societies that already scaled through the depth of homophobia. While, For the Nigerian LGBTQ+ persons, it’s a way to celebrate our survival through life.

Pride month in Africa, most especially Nigeria is celebrated to agitate for the rights to live freely and love as a queer persons in these African countries.

We agitate for the right to hit the street as queer persons with no fear of paying with their lives or being queer is punished by law and made to look like criminal through laws like the Same-Sex Prohibition Act (SSMPA) of 2014.

However, due to the development of technology and virtual spaces of communication, queer people have been able to unite, connect to each other around the world, share their struggles and reality and also be able to proffer solutions to the problems affecting the LGBTQ+ global community.

We at Queercity Media Productions, we are here to celebrate with each and everyone through this month. We celebrate your struggles and reality.
We implore everyone out there to be stronger and never to give up, it only takes time.
In this space, we celebrate you for being true to yourself despite the challenges, we appreciate every shade and colour of your queerness and we are assuring you that you are not alone, you are loved and you’ll always be loved. So shake your body, put your flag up, your colours high and let it fly.
Heal, love, support and find peace.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

Timeless Queer Defiance and it's consequences in Nigeria With Chude – QueerCity

"Defiance comes with consequences and I am comfortable with it". He speaks about gay rights in the Nigerian churches, at conferences and anywhere. On this episode of the Queercity podcast, we would be experiencing what the reality of speaking for LGBT+ rights in Nigeria is for Nigeria's own Chude Jideonwo. Chude is known for his active amplification of minorities issues with his big show #WithChude, where he has also created space to help bring Queer persons' narratives safely to the mainstream media.  Chude speaks of how empathy could be an approach to fighting for the rights of sexual minorities, and to furtherly engaging violently oppressive systems. Behind the scenes packing and Bisi Alimi's appearance on “The Dawn” in 2004,  and the interview with Faraphina magazine Timeless Queer Defiance and its consequences in Nigeria with @chude Jideonwo Join the community by conversation via #Queercitypodcast #7yearsLaterSSMPA #LGBTNigerianLivesMatter #LGBTpodcast #Queerlivesmatter  Credit Executive Producer: Queercity Media and Productions @Queercitymediaandproductions  Hosted and Produced by: Olaide Kayode Timileyin(QueerNerd) @OKTIMILEYIN  Guest: Chude Jideonwo Website: Queercitypodcast.com Upcoming event: bit.ly/PrideInLagos — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/queercity/message
  1. Timeless Queer Defiance and it's consequences in Nigeria With Chude
  2. Nigeria's Road To LGBTI+ Decriminalization with Azeenarh Mohammed
  3. Who killed 19 years old John in Lagos ?
  4. Getting Justice for Cameroonian Transwomen Shakira and Patricia amidst death threats with Hamlet.
  5. HIV stigmatization amongst Nigerian Gay men with Raldie Young

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IDAHOBIT 2021 Together: Resisting, Supporting, Healing.

Olaide Kayode Timileyin | 3:02am

Queerness is still very illegal across many African countries, and this means that queer folks in these part of the world are constantly exposed to all forms of violations which includes targeted hate. During the First quarter of 2021, while the world is still busy battling with the covid-19 pandemic , arrest and violations of queer persons and organizations have been recorded in at least three West African countries, these includes, Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon.

Across the globe, Queer folks acknowledge every May the 17th as the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, where we educate, advocate and communicate unapologetically against hate against queer bodies. Between February 2021 and May 2021, about four transwomen have faced from eviction and harassments to the most recent one of imprisonment as in the case of Shakiro and Patricia in Cameroon.

This year, we at Queercity Media and production say we recognize how much battles we as a community of queer folks in Africa had fought, we have survived and still fight, that words from our head can’t describe. From the stories we have chosen to tell, we constantly see how far we still have to go as a community in fighting against hate and violations of queer folks, most especially in the creation of healing spaces for ourselves as a community. Everyday queer person is faced with compulsory resistance against the society as our very existence is still criminalized, and this year we are choosing to say as a community we would be Resisting, Supporting and Healing together.

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As LGBT persons in Sub Saharan Africa, we recognize we still have a long way to go with community supports, as often time we forget we are all we have as a community of criminalized person, and this year’s international day against homophobia, biphobia and transphobia is indeed a clarion call that we all should answer to. While we all as individuals do our best in advocating for our existence, we should never ignore the fact that haven to fight for our existence is mentally and emotionally draining, and we need more healing spaces for ourselves as a community, paying attention to things like this promotes the quality of our activism and is prone to yield more effective results with the work with all do.

With Resistance, healing and supports we are moving a step at a time towards equality. Happy IDAHOBIT 2021 queer folks.

Timeless Queer Defiance and it's consequences in Nigeria With Chude – QueerCity

"Defiance comes with consequences and I am comfortable with it". He speaks about gay rights in the Nigerian churches, at conferences and anywhere. On this episode of the Queercity podcast, we would be experiencing what the reality of speaking for LGBT+ rights in Nigeria is for Nigeria's own Chude Jideonwo. Chude is known for his active amplification of minorities issues with his big show #WithChude, where he has also created space to help bring Queer persons' narratives safely to the mainstream media.  Chude speaks of how empathy could be an approach to fighting for the rights of sexual minorities, and to furtherly engaging violently oppressive systems. Behind the scenes packing and Bisi Alimi's appearance on “The Dawn” in 2004,  and the interview with Faraphina magazine Timeless Queer Defiance and its consequences in Nigeria with @chude Jideonwo Join the community by conversation via #Queercitypodcast #7yearsLaterSSMPA #LGBTNigerianLivesMatter #LGBTpodcast #Queerlivesmatter  Credit Executive Producer: Queercity Media and Productions @Queercitymediaandproductions  Hosted and Produced by: Olaide Kayode Timileyin(QueerNerd) @OKTIMILEYIN  Guest: Chude Jideonwo Website: Queercitypodcast.com Upcoming event: bit.ly/PrideInLagos — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/queercity/message
  1. Timeless Queer Defiance and it's consequences in Nigeria With Chude
  2. Nigeria's Road To LGBTI+ Decriminalization with Azeenarh Mohammed
  3. Who killed 19 years old John in Lagos ?
  4. Getting Justice for Cameroonian Transwomen Shakira and Patricia amidst death threats with Hamlet.
  5. HIV stigmatization amongst Nigerian Gay men with Raldie Young
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Past Press release PRIDE

Press Release – GLOW UP PRIDE 1.0

An actual pride event in Nigeria would have been thought impossible, few years ago, after a tweep mentioned it has a possibility, the Nigerian LGBT community had an uproar and a division, some folx believed it’s a suicidal mission, others felt we can. Suggestions to create a balance like, wearing a mask to protect people’s identity were made. Pride month across the universe is a month that is all about the gays, lesbians and every other identity and expression in the LGBT community. Parades that are usually had in every geographical locations of the world, where being queer is not criminalized are cancelled this year, and thanks to the corona virus, which created the need for new exploration of new ideas.

Glow Up pride 2020 was one of the mediums we sought to explore, a virtual pride. At the beginning of the pandemic, human contacts were the first to be avoided, that is ; self isolation, which caused every form of gathering to be cancelled, every form of basic life interactions were taken digital, and companies like Zoom, Facebook, HouseParty, etc created platforms for people to meet in large numbers virtually, thereby no exposing anyone to the virus. By April we started planning for one of such meetings, since the SSMPA is against physical gathering, we could take our meetings somewhere new, “the Virtual earth”. The two hours event was held on zoom, and we had 9 awesome performances , starting off with Borax, and ending with Gyre. Videos are on our IGTV