Cultures of Public Intervention regarding LGBTQ Issues after Nigeria's Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act (SSMPA)

The introduction of SSMPA was a blow to the hopes and objectives of Nigerian LGBTQ groups; it transformed the political and social landscape by fomenting heated public anti-LGBTQ vitriol and creating an atmosphere in which otherwise "normal" citizens felt that they were working for the national good in acting upon homophobic sentiments. Since 2014, SSMPA has rolled back some previous achievements made by Nigerian LGBTQ groups. The exception in this situation would be healthcare related matters because such operations are passed off as HIV/AIDS-related interventions. [...]sexual minority networking and organizing often take place under the aegis of public health interventions. [...]they are active in disseminating knowledge about the differences between actual infringements against the letter of the law from the putatively gay, lesbian, and transgender gestural repertoires and behaviours that police officers and members of the public use to police suspected gay and lesbian individuals. Because recourse to the law can be a difficult process, it has become important to conduct public mobilization campaigns in which activists generate and redirect public response to move individual personalities to change their positions or rethink their actions toward members of sexual minority groups. In response to a homophobic video titled "Lekki Gay" in which Nigerian comedian Akpobome Ogude promotes sexual assault against gay men, a Nigerian LGBTQ-rights online media platform initiated a petition against him by demanding that the video be removed from the internet and that he make an apology to LGBTQ Nigerians (Daemon 2017).

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Okanlawon, Kehinde

Đề mục:

Politics

Nhà xuất bản:

Johns Hopkins University Press and West Chester University

Ngày xuất bản:

Fall 2018

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Định danh tư liệu:

https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2018.0038

Nguồn gốc:

College Literature; West Chester, Volume 45, Issue 4, Fall 2018, Pages 641-651

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ISSN 0093-3139

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Cultures of Public Intervention regarding LGBTQ Issues after Nigeria's Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act (SSMPA)

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