Petition against Nigeria's gay marriage ban gets global support

{jcomments off}A petition, which has amassed thousands of signatures, calls on the Nigerian president not to sign new laws in the country which would discriminate against gays.

At the end of November the Nigerian Senate voted to ban gay marriage in the country with harsh punishments. Homosexuality in the country has already been criminalised with it some parts of the country punishing those suspected of being gay with the death penalty. Pink News reports that so far the petition has amassed 60,000 signatures from around the world.

Representatives from the Nigerian LGBTQI in Diaspora, and other groups, have rallied outside the Nigerian Mission to the United Nations in protest at the country’s new law. Nigeria is just one of several African countries which have regimes which are actively and unashamedly homophobic. Other such countries within Africa include Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria and Zimbabwe. Religion has played a large part in the rise of homophobia on the continent in the past decade or so.

You can sign the petition at the following address: www.allout.org/nigeria