By Vee Bassey
I was raised in a strict, fundamentalist Christian household in Lagos State, Nigeria, where my family referred to homosexuality as “a sin to God, worthy of eternal damnation in Hell.”
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By Ignacio Darnaude
In all my years visiting Los Angeles’ Getty Museum, I’ve never experienced the kind of electricity I felt heading to this exhibit. Conversations buzzed in anticipation of “Queer Lens: A History of Photography.”
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By Bella Chacha
They moved into an apartment in Lagos. They posted carefully curated photos on Instagram–of them in matching outfits, filtered beach selfies, casual videos of cooking jollof together.
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By Llewyn Blossfeld
When I was 21 years old and searching for a thesis topic during the COVID-19 pandemic, I thought about the first lesbian photograph I remember seeing.
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By Ingrid Dahl
I was born in 1980 to my parents—an interracial couple who fell in love and bravely chose one another, despite racial, familial, and cultural expectations. And two and half decades later, I followed the same courageous act, by coming out to my family, despite similar reactions to my truth.
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