Nope I'm not being picky, English is my first language and that's why I picked Canada to insinuate that my life is not in danger when you do not live in Nigeria and probably never viewed Nigerians speaking on homosexuality on social media outlets is condescending.
I ruled out the USA after reading a book "Asylum" by a Nigerian who went to the USA to look for asylum cause he's gay.
I picked Canada because when you are choosing a place to be free from danger, then you must really choose a place where you are free from that danger.
As you have rightfully pointed out about the Nordic Countries, I will look into it. But none of you understand where I'm coming from!
I don't have the money to pretend what I'm not! I can't claim a tourist visa cause I don't have 10,000 USD in my account. Even by Nigerian standard I'm broke. I intend to go to the Canadian embassy and tell them the truth, if they refuse to give me the tourist visa after finding out my real intentions — then there's nothing I can do about it.
And yes I do have a choice — the choice not to be like many homosexuals in Nigeria, forced into marriages, forced to always live in fear of discovery, forced into night rendezvous with their fellow sex, some of them like me being beaten up. Others being outrightly killed especially in the North.
And yet some of us, look up to you guys and be like, " we want to be free like these guys".
Especially I! , I want to date a guy openly, I am tired of having to be insulted for being gay.
You don't live in Nigeria, in your entire life you have never had your back redesigned for being gay. It was just four days ago that the handle of a machete, more than four belts, a plastic pipe and a hanger for hanging clothes were used liberally across my back for being gay by my fellow students!
You think my life is not in danger? Do you know how many years I will spend in prison if anyone reports me to the government! Has it occurred to you that my deeply religious parents are scheduling a deliverance session for me!? Do you know what this gay conversion therapy of a so-called deliverance from a non-existing demon will do to my psyche and mental health?
So you think I would leave my final year as a law student to flee to Canada if my life was not in danger? Do you know how everyone looks at me with disgust and some wants me dead? Where you there when students younger than me gathered in the early morning of 10th March to demand that the hostel executives hand me over to them so that they may beat me up the more!
Do you know what my friends tell me to my face anytime I say I'm gay? Or defend LGBTQ people or show them evidence that LGBTQ people are not a threat to anyone!?
Thank you very much for your advice I shall look into information on the Nordic Countries concerning seeking asylum. Thank you again, I appreciate your help sincerely from a gay Nigerian who is tired of living in a country where people wants him dead.
