ColumnsHuman SexualityOpinionBeing Gay in An Anti-Gay Society

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When it comes to the matters of sex in an anti-gay society, homosexuality is one of the unthinkable abominable acts to indulge in. In January 2014, former President Goodluck Jonathan passed the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act (SSMPA). Also, the president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, signed a bill in 2009 which (originally) included a death penalty clause for some homosexual acts. He also expressed his distaste by stating clearly, in an exclusive interview with CNN that homosexuals are disgusting.

In a BBC interview conducted in 2019, some gay persons narrated their ordeal of being gay in an anti-gay society. One disclosed that his sister upon knowing his same-sex sexual desire, brought him to a prophet who performed the ‘conversion therapy’ ( an unproven practice that uses psychological, physical, or spiritual interventions in an attempt to change a person’s homosexual or bisexual orientation to heterosexual)  on him.  In his narration, he said that he was stripped naked and flogged seven times a day until he fainted the third day out of exhaustion and pain. Another lady narrated how some sort of oil was poured into her vagina in an attempt to convert her. Some testified of being harassed by policemen upon any form of suspicion that they were gay.

Imagining the awkwardness and distortion of the social structure within the purview of the same-sex union has been strong pushback against the gay movement. ‘How can a husband and husband or wife and wife start a family?’

Same-sex behaviour has been documented across the animal kingdom just as the human ‘ideal’ heterosexual behaviour. For example, the bonobos along with chimpanzees are humans’ closest living relatives. According to research from livescience.com, bonobos share 98.7 percent of humans’ DNA. This sends a signal that homosexuality could be seen as natural just as heterosexuality since animals’ sexual behaviours are usually instinctive. Homosexuality has been an act widely frowned upon, even by holy books, over the years. As a result, we have people that get married in anti-gay societies for societal acceptance, but use that as a disguise to fulfill their sexual desires with the same sex as they would hardly be suspected of being promiscuous when they keep more male friends than female and vice versa.

Imagining the awkwardness and distortion of the social structure within the purview of the same-sex union has been strong pushback against the gay movement. ‘How can a husband and husband or wife and wife start a family?’ ‘Most families consist of children. In that case, what precedence would be laid down for a child with a (foster) father and father or mother and mother? That would be a great introduction to disorder in society.’
Dialogue, which involves empathetic listening to reach a mutual compromise and gain, might yield better results in protecting fundamental human rights and preserving the philosophy behind the smallest social unit of the society. With the interest of both parties, would it be empathetic enough for the government to reach a common ground with the homosexuals by lifting the ban of illegality from their sexual behaviour, but with the condition of no-access-to-parenting since every human’s free-will choice is always accompanied with some consequences-be they good, fair, or bad?
♦ Favour Chiagozie Ebubechukwu is an Editorial  Staff Writer and columnist with the WAP
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