From the Advocate magazine in partnership with Glad, this is LGBTQ and A.

I'm Jeffrey Masters, and I have long been fascinated by how different the LGBTQ plus experience is

depending on where you live, and that it's even more true for those living outside of the U.S.

In fact, when we talk about the LGBTQ plus experience and use that phrase, most often

we're talking about the Western LGBTQ plus experience. So today we're going to hear from

Addafi Okoro, Addafife in Nigeria, where in 2014, the

same-sex marriage prohibition act was signed into law. That act banned any form of public affection

between same-sex couples, it forbid them from living together, and also made it illegal to own

or operate any sort of organization or business that catered to queer people.

This forced the community to move underground.

And as you'll hear, Addafi used to go to these underground parties where they'd meet and dance, therapy, drag, and it also would serve as a place to get tested for HIV and learn

about safe sex.

So all of that is coming up.

Now, as a reminder, this month, we're

dipping into our archive. This was originally taped in May of 2019. It aired on the Luminary

app. And since then, Daffey has written a book. It is not out yet, but it will be coming

next year 2022. So stay tuned for that.

There was a law that passed in 2014 in Nigeria that made same-sex relationships illegal. I want to definitely get to that, but before, while you were growing up, what was the general feeling and attitude toward gay people?

Generally, Nigeria is predominantly patriarchy. So like men are supposed to be men and

women are supposed to stay at home just like United States 60 years ago. But there was a

that was done by Amnesty International in 2013 that shows that

that 98% of Nigerians believe that gay people are the cause of the country problem.

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