It was a few months after Nigeria’s Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act had been signed into law by its president, Goodluck Jonathan. With funding he had raised, Reverend Jide – as he was universally known – rented this flat, one of several underground House of Rainbow “local groups” in Nigerian cities. Shortly after I visited Ibadan, the House of Rainbow operation there shut down because it had become, Jude Onwambor told me, “a security risk”. Jide Macaulay, House of Rainbow’s founder, tells me he is both “thrilled” and “terrified” by the advent of such outspoken voices. Thus do they live on the pink line, these young Nigerians, toggling between their new virtual freedom and the dangers of life offline.

Source: The Guardian March 03, 2018 18:56 UTC