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AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. He has lost his job as a cleaner, left his studies at university and had sex for money to help pay for a ticket to Ghana where he hopes he can slip into obscurity. Femi says he "became gay" at 14 when he fell in love with the man who raped him, an older man who was close friends with his father. He kept the relationship a secret until his father accused him of being "gay and acting girly". In a country like Nigeria where 91 per cent of people believe homosexuality should be criminalised, his confession only led to more frequent and ferocious beatings from his father.
In former president Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill which proscribed penalties of 14 years' jail for same-sex marriage and 10 years' for same-sex "amorous relationships". In the country's Muslim north, 12 states have adopted Sharia, with punishment for gay sex including lashings, jail and death by stoning.
Days after the hotel arrests, the Lagos State Attorney-General Adeniji Kazeem said the tough stance taken with the men was to help put "a stop to the exploitation of under-aged children" by gay men. Doyin was in jail for seven days before he was released, but unlike many, he wasn't fazed by the consequences. This is my lifestyle.
This is what I choose and they say I should live my life," he says. I have feelings for men.
A gay is a human being [and that's] why I'm bold. Bundled into a cell with hardened criminals, Tunde says he was beaten up by another prisoner, called the President, who was instructed by police to extract confessions. Along with the other men, Tunde pleaded not guilty to the charge in court, but his picture, name and HIV status were taken by local media and splashed across newspapers around the nation.
Nigeria is an incredibly divided country but Lagos activist Peter Kass says hostility towards gay people was one issue that cut across region and religion. He spent a night in lock up where he says he was "beaten with a stick, hammer and plywood". Bisi Alimi was the first gay man in Nigeria to come out on national television, later seeking asylum in England. He returned to Nigeria to support these men in court.
He says that had local media not found out about the arrest the police would have been paid off and "the boys would be home". Class and economic power play a part here," he says. The situation for LGBTI people in northern Nigeria is more difficult than for those living in the south, with at least gay men and women having been arrested since January this year.
In August, she says, a year-old schoolboy was allegedly beaten to death by some of his classmates in Jigawa state because they suspected he was gay. Back in Lagos, Mr Kass says gangs used social media to catch unsuspecting gay men out to either beat them up or exhort money from them.
She says she knew she was attracted to women when she was 15 but "came to terms that loving in Nigeria was going to be tough because of religious and cultural influences". To please her parents she married a man four years ago but after her father died she divorced.
Rita says her ex-husband vowed to teach her "a lesson [she] would never forget" and last month came to her house with two policemen, where she was caught in bed with her partner. But her ex-husband didn't stop there. On September 17 Rita said she was walking home at night when she was attacked by four men.
Do I know it is a crime [to be gay] and 14 years' jail?