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Queer Lagosians made alté cool. Now they’re being pushed out.

Group Therapy nightclub scene in Lagos, Nigeria (Photo courtesy of Instagram)

Queer spaces have always existed in Nigeria, but only on the margins Black queer figures dancing in an underground rave. (Illustration by Rex Opara courtesy of Minority Africa) Queer communities helped shape Lagos’s underground party scene. Now, as alté culture moves into the mainstream, the people who built it are being pushed to the margins – again.   In a …

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