two months ago I woke one morning in my
London home to a series of missed calls
on my phone
they were from Nigeria it was the knees
that the police in Lagos has invaded a
party and as I read it
arrested 42 men on the grounds of
homosexuality the arrests ammonia was
not actually the first it was one in
line of many other arrests of gay and
bisexual men across Nigeria by the
Nigerian police since 2014 the year nine
Geron signed the same-sex marriage
relation Act into law by President
Goodluck Jonathan the law criminalizes
among other things setting up and
registration of gay clubs an association
same-sex marriage aiding and abetting
homosexual marriage identity and
behavior directly or indirectly or
sensor cameras affection in public I
mean I dream I’m living with HIV and my
life has been a struggle a struggle
knowing that all of this act would carry
10 to 14 years imprisonment but
interesting thing is out of all the
fortunate events in my life many of them
have been by accident an accident
there have been exciting and amazing I
came in contact with mr. Bayard Rustin
in 2009 and encountered Ellis left with
unspeakable strength and power but most
importantly an encounter that has made
me an Angelika troublemaker my journey
with mr. Roston started when I was a
columnist with guest:i news
I was commissioned to write a story on
historical black LGBT people in history
for the LGBT instruments which is always
in February in the UK prior to this my
understanding of blackness and quanah’s
have been shipped with inflicting wood
in 2005 when I started the independent
project which is not known as the
initiative for equal rights in Nigeria I
did so in response as a victim in 2007
when my house was broken into and I was
almost killed because I have the nerve
to come out and challenge the government
I ran out of Nigeria as a victim when I
was 17 years old after a week-long gay
therapy session I came back from school
went into the bathroom tied a rope
around my neck and for the first time in
my life
attempted suicide I did so as a victim
when in 2008 on the streets of London
I heard someone used the n-word at me
and taught me to go back to where you
came from or when I’m see an act of
racism and I lacked the courage or the
language to call it out I did so as a
victim my victim would was rooted in my
lack of access to history of people like
me I was only gay when I was 32 years
even at that time I had no idea what it
means to be gay
I was never black I was only au revoir
man from Nigeria so with my brief from
gates Danny’s assert in front of my
computer and such searching for those
historic black queer people and I’ll be
very honest with you before I started I
was expecting to see about three or five
if I get lucky then I came across Linda
bellows the first black lesbian
politician in the UK and the founder of
the Black History Month I saw Alice
Walker the pulitzer winner for a book
color purple
then I came across Audrey Lord a
karadian Canadian American writer and a
civil rights movements leader and she
was really active in the LGBT movement
in the Greenwich Village in New York and
also I promise focus on the history of
women I chemicals
Bruce Naja’s a ragtime painter of the
Harlem Renaissance and his short story
smoke lilies and Jade had been regarded
by many as a first publication that
actually talked about homosexuality
among black Americans then I saw James
Baldwin the legendary James Baldwin who
has written a lot about
intersectionality between race and
sexuality but more importantly the
writer of I am NOT your Negro day there
was Luther Vandross the man whose sin
irate adults with his amazing voice and
lyrics and I always argue with my
friends all of us have got something to
thank mr. Luthor for and then there was
Tracy Chapman singer-songwriter was won
many Grammy Awards then I saw room for
drag race the drag queen who is doing so
much to break down the glass ceilings of
what it means to be a man
and then there was John Amaechi the
first openly NBA player there was salmon
in Coney the South African political
activist and an HIV activist and the
first person to actually form the first
gay group in all of Africa then my
lovely sister Miss Phil the openly gay
woman who had Wow the LGBT landscape in
the UK and the founder of the LGBT
history of the black right in in the UK
as I dug deeper I got more excited here
I was at the age of 34 and the gay
rights activist and it has taken me this
long to actually know I was standing on
the shoulders of big black giants people
who had gone before me who had live
their authentic life to the eye
can find myself and love myself however
it was being arrested I changed
everything I realized as far back as the
50s there was a man who was defying all
the odds and understanding the act of
intersection of living
Bayard was not only a black man in a Jim
Crow America their pride at itself on
racial segregation and hatred he was
also an openly gay man in a homophobic
America the pride itself on its bigotry
I was like a child in a candy shop I was
excited I was happy I was empowered I
came to realize that rustling faced a
lot of prejudice from not just the
American system but from the black
community itself that why the FBI were
blackmailing him and using his sexuality
to shut him up for his fight against a
racialized America the black community
were turning their backs against him
because of his sexuality but now Rustin
is no one to keep quiet leading up to
the match on Washington more than 50
years ago it was asked to leave the
movement by dr. Revell Martin Luther
King because of a threat from the White
House and from the FBI but movements
could not find their voice without
rusting so it was called back to lead
the greatest human rights match in the
history of the civil rights movement in
the u.s. the march on Washington it was
here that dr. Reverend Martin Luther
King gave a speech I have a dream Rustin
was also influential in introducing a
non-violent direct action to the civil
rights movement in America I became
extremely fascinated with the story of
rusting and in every way I saw my life
connecting with is even before I came in
contact with him as I read more about
him I became I came across one of his
most powerful quote we need in everyday
and community
a group of angelic trouble makers from
this code I realize that I did not have
to be a victim even when I thought like
a victim that I was never a victim I was
actually an Angelika troublemaker being
an actor was all I had wanted to be I
had my big break and six months later I
was looking at losing it all I had a
choice to either come out kill myself or
going to hiding I decided to come and
this made me the first person to come
out on national television in a country
of over 100 million people my coming-out
started a conversation the country had
been dreading to have I opened a kind of
worms
I became an Angelika troublemaker later
when I settled in the UK Rustin code
formed the core of my activism in my
fight against institutional racism
sexism ableism homophobia biphobia and
transphobia but more importantly when I
became aware of it they caught formed
the bedrock of the formation of the BCAM
a foundation I had in my mind
accelerating social acceptance of LGBT
people in Nigeria like Desmond Tutu I
know that I am a prisoner of hope I
strongly believe that change is
inevitable but it is our responsibility
to accelerate change Nigeria was my day
was my community I wanted to empower a
mass of people that would not only
believed in social justice and human
rights but when I to fight for it as
well like those people that matched on
Washington for Jobs and housing so in
2015 in partnership with the initiative
for equal rights
we commissioned Noi Niger ins leading
opinion poll to carry out a study on
social acceptance of same-sex marriage
law in Nigeria earlier in 2004
anyway I done the same poll and I’ve
found that 96% of Nigeria would support
a law that would criminalize sin sex
relationship when we did that study it
fell to 87 percent
many of you will argue that this is not
a big drop but for many lesbian gay
bisexual and trans people in Nigeria
this is a huge achievement it means that
the Angelica troublemakers across the
base and communities in Nigeria who had
been quiet for a long time and I’ve been
heard loud and clear though when we did
our study not dancing to their music the
effect of homophobia biphobia and
transphobia on the life of LGBT people a
study that sampled over 400 LGBT people
in Nigeria via an online sampling the
story was different
55% of our respondents said they have
been sexually abused and assaulted 54
percent said they experienced threat and
violence online some one to one percent
said they strongly believe that this
experience is based on their sexuality
prior to the study we assumed that
curative and corrective rape was a South
African thing who was shocked when a lot
of lesbians told us that they’ve been
raped by friends or family members would
hope of correcting them over 20% of our
respondents talked about experiencing
discrimination at work or even in the
public space well when you see me as a
black person and you see the images
every day of Trevor Martin Eric garner
sander brand betrayed year-old Tamir
rice or Philander costume and many
others like me this one men and women
who had been killed in broad daylight
for being black
this year alone according to the Human
Rights Watch over 20 black trans women
have been killed in the United States
you watch the news and you see the
devastation humans thoughts or the
effects of climate change
all you hear about how hyper-masculinity
is pushing our men to either commit
suicide or become become domestic
abusers you see our protectionism
populism and nationalism is changing the
face of our politics when you’re
confronted with reality like this then
you know you had no choice but to be an
angelic trouble maker you can ask what
can I do differently how can I make a
change does it even matter when I did
your age I was losing my friends to age
and I was confused I was scared
I need something had to be done I just
didn’t know what when I was attacked in
my home and I was almost killed
I knew something had to be done but I
don’t know how and when I knew I didn’t
I don’t think I could do it when I was
called a nigger on the street of leg of
London or attacked for being gay I was
angry I was confused I was paranoid and
I didn’t know what to do but when I came
across me I’m rusty I saw the need for
an angelic troublemaker one that is
devoted to making changes happened the
force for good and progress in everyday
and community the mobilizes the
organizer for a different war that is
possible a word they have diversity
equity and inclusion as his modus
operandi it was these that led me to
start the PC as my foundation and
starting a media and Lipa fellowship in
Nigeria it informs our culturally
sensitive workplace diversity and
inclusion even in a certain like Nigeria
it was this that made me get on a plane
and went to my birth country last month
to stand in solidarity with the 42 men
that were arrested even when I knew that
he was dangerous now the men are caught
up in did never-ending legal system in
Nigeria it was these I mean say I do
my husband when I know that this way and
that so many people who feel that our
love is illegal beam and gel and
Angelica troublemaker means you are not
comfortable with the status code it
means that you’re not waiting around for
someone to fix the problems it means
that you live your life with the words
of Margaret Mead never doubt that a
group of smart thoughtful committed
individual can change the world indeed
it is the only thing that ever asked as
an Angelica troublemaker you know that
your freedom is not an absolute if your
neighbors have known you know you had a
change you’re looking for I am busy Ally
me and I am an Angelica troublemaker
London home to a series of missed calls
on my phone
they were from Nigeria it was the knees
that the police in Lagos has invaded a
party and as I read it
arrested 42 men on the grounds of
homosexuality the arrests ammonia was
not actually the first it was one in
line of many other arrests of gay and
bisexual men across Nigeria by the
Nigerian police since 2014 the year nine
Geron signed the same-sex marriage
relation Act into law by President
Goodluck Jonathan the law criminalizes
among other things setting up and
registration of gay clubs an association
same-sex marriage aiding and abetting
homosexual marriage identity and
behavior directly or indirectly or
sensor cameras affection in public I
mean I dream I’m living with HIV and my
life has been a struggle a struggle
knowing that all of this act would carry
10 to 14 years imprisonment but
interesting thing is out of all the
fortunate events in my life many of them
have been by accident an accident
there have been exciting and amazing I
came in contact with mr. Bayard Rustin
in 2009 and encountered Ellis left with
unspeakable strength and power but most
importantly an encounter that has made
me an Angelika troublemaker my journey
with mr. Roston started when I was a
columnist with guest:i news
I was commissioned to write a story on
historical black LGBT people in history
for the LGBT instruments which is always
in February in the UK prior to this my
understanding of blackness and quanah’s
have been shipped with inflicting wood
in 2005 when I started the independent
project which is not known as the
initiative for equal rights in Nigeria I
did so in response as a victim in 2007
when my house was broken into and I was
almost killed because I have the nerve
to come out and challenge the government
I ran out of Nigeria as a victim when I
was 17 years old after a week-long gay
therapy session I came back from school
went into the bathroom tied a rope
around my neck and for the first time in
my life
attempted suicide I did so as a victim
when in 2008 on the streets of London
I heard someone used the n-word at me
and taught me to go back to where you
came from or when I’m see an act of
racism and I lacked the courage or the
language to call it out I did so as a
victim my victim would was rooted in my
lack of access to history of people like
me I was only gay when I was 32 years
even at that time I had no idea what it
means to be gay
I was never black I was only au revoir
man from Nigeria so with my brief from
gates Danny’s assert in front of my
computer and such searching for those
historic black queer people and I’ll be
very honest with you before I started I
was expecting to see about three or five
if I get lucky then I came across Linda
bellows the first black lesbian
politician in the UK and the founder of
the Black History Month I saw Alice
Walker the pulitzer winner for a book
color purple
then I came across Audrey Lord a
karadian Canadian American writer and a
civil rights movements leader and she
was really active in the LGBT movement
in the Greenwich Village in New York and
also I promise focus on the history of
women I chemicals
Bruce Naja’s a ragtime painter of the
Harlem Renaissance and his short story
smoke lilies and Jade had been regarded
by many as a first publication that
actually talked about homosexuality
among black Americans then I saw James
Baldwin the legendary James Baldwin who
has written a lot about
intersectionality between race and
sexuality but more importantly the
writer of I am NOT your Negro day there
was Luther Vandross the man whose sin
irate adults with his amazing voice and
lyrics and I always argue with my
friends all of us have got something to
thank mr. Luthor for and then there was
Tracy Chapman singer-songwriter was won
many Grammy Awards then I saw room for
drag race the drag queen who is doing so
much to break down the glass ceilings of
what it means to be a man
and then there was John Amaechi the
first openly NBA player there was salmon
in Coney the South African political
activist and an HIV activist and the
first person to actually form the first
gay group in all of Africa then my
lovely sister Miss Phil the openly gay
woman who had Wow the LGBT landscape in
the UK and the founder of the LGBT
history of the black right in in the UK
as I dug deeper I got more excited here
I was at the age of 34 and the gay
rights activist and it has taken me this
long to actually know I was standing on
the shoulders of big black giants people
who had gone before me who had live
their authentic life to the eye
can find myself and love myself however
it was being arrested I changed
everything I realized as far back as the
50s there was a man who was defying all
the odds and understanding the act of
intersection of living
Bayard was not only a black man in a Jim
Crow America their pride at itself on
racial segregation and hatred he was
also an openly gay man in a homophobic
America the pride itself on its bigotry
I was like a child in a candy shop I was
excited I was happy I was empowered I
came to realize that rustling faced a
lot of prejudice from not just the
American system but from the black
community itself that why the FBI were
blackmailing him and using his sexuality
to shut him up for his fight against a
racialized America the black community
were turning their backs against him
because of his sexuality but now Rustin
is no one to keep quiet leading up to
the match on Washington more than 50
years ago it was asked to leave the
movement by dr. Revell Martin Luther
King because of a threat from the White
House and from the FBI but movements
could not find their voice without
rusting so it was called back to lead
the greatest human rights match in the
history of the civil rights movement in
the u.s. the march on Washington it was
here that dr. Reverend Martin Luther
King gave a speech I have a dream Rustin
was also influential in introducing a
non-violent direct action to the civil
rights movement in America I became
extremely fascinated with the story of
rusting and in every way I saw my life
connecting with is even before I came in
contact with him as I read more about
him I became I came across one of his
most powerful quote we need in everyday
and community
a group of angelic trouble makers from
this code I realize that I did not have
to be a victim even when I thought like
a victim that I was never a victim I was
actually an Angelika troublemaker being
an actor was all I had wanted to be I
had my big break and six months later I
was looking at losing it all I had a
choice to either come out kill myself or
going to hiding I decided to come and
this made me the first person to come
out on national television in a country
of over 100 million people my coming-out
started a conversation the country had
been dreading to have I opened a kind of
worms
I became an Angelika troublemaker later
when I settled in the UK Rustin code
formed the core of my activism in my
fight against institutional racism
sexism ableism homophobia biphobia and
transphobia but more importantly when I
became aware of it they caught formed
the bedrock of the formation of the BCAM
a foundation I had in my mind
accelerating social acceptance of LGBT
people in Nigeria like Desmond Tutu I
know that I am a prisoner of hope I
strongly believe that change is
inevitable but it is our responsibility
to accelerate change Nigeria was my day
was my community I wanted to empower a
mass of people that would not only
believed in social justice and human
rights but when I to fight for it as
well like those people that matched on
Washington for Jobs and housing so in
2015 in partnership with the initiative
for equal rights
we commissioned Noi Niger ins leading
opinion poll to carry out a study on
social acceptance of same-sex marriage
law in Nigeria earlier in 2004
anyway I done the same poll and I’ve
found that 96% of Nigeria would support
a law that would criminalize sin sex
relationship when we did that study it
fell to 87 percent
many of you will argue that this is not
a big drop but for many lesbian gay
bisexual and trans people in Nigeria
this is a huge achievement it means that
the Angelica troublemakers across the
base and communities in Nigeria who had
been quiet for a long time and I’ve been
heard loud and clear though when we did
our study not dancing to their music the
effect of homophobia biphobia and
transphobia on the life of LGBT people a
study that sampled over 400 LGBT people
in Nigeria via an online sampling the
story was different
55% of our respondents said they have
been sexually abused and assaulted 54
percent said they experienced threat and
violence online some one to one percent
said they strongly believe that this
experience is based on their sexuality
prior to the study we assumed that
curative and corrective rape was a South
African thing who was shocked when a lot
of lesbians told us that they’ve been
raped by friends or family members would
hope of correcting them over 20% of our
respondents talked about experiencing
discrimination at work or even in the
public space well when you see me as a
black person and you see the images
every day of Trevor Martin Eric garner
sander brand betrayed year-old Tamir
rice or Philander costume and many
others like me this one men and women
who had been killed in broad daylight
for being black
this year alone according to the Human
Rights Watch over 20 black trans women
have been killed in the United States
you watch the news and you see the
devastation humans thoughts or the
effects of climate change
all you hear about how hyper-masculinity
is pushing our men to either commit
suicide or become become domestic
abusers you see our protectionism
populism and nationalism is changing the
face of our politics when you’re
confronted with reality like this then
you know you had no choice but to be an
angelic trouble maker you can ask what
can I do differently how can I make a
change does it even matter when I did
your age I was losing my friends to age
and I was confused I was scared
I need something had to be done I just
didn’t know what when I was attacked in
my home and I was almost killed
I knew something had to be done but I
don’t know how and when I knew I didn’t
I don’t think I could do it when I was
called a nigger on the street of leg of
London or attacked for being gay I was
angry I was confused I was paranoid and
I didn’t know what to do but when I came
across me I’m rusty I saw the need for
an angelic troublemaker one that is
devoted to making changes happened the
force for good and progress in everyday
and community the mobilizes the
organizer for a different war that is
possible a word they have diversity
equity and inclusion as his modus
operandi it was these that led me to
start the PC as my foundation and
starting a media and Lipa fellowship in
Nigeria it informs our culturally
sensitive workplace diversity and
inclusion even in a certain like Nigeria
it was this that made me get on a plane
and went to my birth country last month
to stand in solidarity with the 42 men
that were arrested even when I knew that
he was dangerous now the men are caught
up in did never-ending legal system in
Nigeria it was these I mean say I do
my husband when I know that this way and
that so many people who feel that our
love is illegal beam and gel and
Angelica troublemaker means you are not
comfortable with the status code it
means that you’re not waiting around for
someone to fix the problems it means
that you live your life with the words
of Margaret Mead never doubt that a
group of smart thoughtful committed
individual can change the world indeed
it is the only thing that ever asked as
an Angelica troublemaker you know that
your freedom is not an absolute if your
neighbors have known you know you had a
change you’re looking for I am busy Ally
me and I am an Angelica troublemaker
Please follow and like us: