Nigerian gay rights activists bisi Alimi has slammed Simi over an alleged post were she spoke against violence and racism on black amid killing of Gorge Floyd while she once condemned homosexuality.
Bisi Alimi called her [Simi] a hypocrite and a disgrace referencing to a Youtube show called Stoopid Sessions were Simi hinted at being homophobic and condemning Gay individuals.
She said; “ It just doesn’t seem natural its is abnormal to me, they say they are born that way but I don’t see any biological proof”.
In a country like Nigeria were we have different diversity and instilled culture and beliefs that is hard to constrain, Homosexuality has become a “Castle in the air”.
Few Nigerians are quite accommodating about the idea of homosexuality while a greater number feel contemn and disdained about it. This has now become a scuffle of conviction on the internet as Many Netizens continue to fight about it.
Simi took to twitter as she condemned Racism and killing of blacks but the LGBT activist denigrated her for supporting African Americans but promote violence against gay people in Nigeria.
See Wrote:
”And we have our own people killing us in the streets and it has become so normal now. It’s almost more abhorrent. As fucked as it is, it is one thing for people to be intimidated by and hate you for being different, but how do you not value someone the exact same as you?”
The LGBT activist Bisi Alimi Got angry as he took to Twitter to slam Simi:
He wrote;
“There is a name you call the #Nigeria middle/upper class elites that sympathise with abroad blackness but promote local homophobic violence against their own #LGBT; hypocrites. The @SympLySimi of this world. You are a disgrace.”
See tweet:
There is a name you call the #Nigeria middle/upper class elites that sympathise with abroad blackness but promote local homophobic violence against there own #LGBT; hypocrites. The @SympLySimi of this world. You are a disgrace. pic.twitter.com/ZvnWe0CExb
— Lucifer (HE/HIM) (@bisialimi) May 28, 2020
Bisi Alimi Alimi gained notoriety in 2004 when he became the first Nigerian gay man to appear on Nigerian national television as a guest on Funmi Iyanda show “New Dawn with Funmi”, a talk show on the NTA.
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