Bisi Alimi, a gay rights activist who became the first Nigerian to come out on television, wants Nollywood to act homosexuals scenes accurately.
“We all don’t catwalk, we don’t call ourselves wives. It’s this kind of caricature that is very problematic because the power of film and television is huge,” He said Alimi on the portrayal of homosexuals in Nollywood.
“And people see things, it stays in their memory. They go out and expect that thing to be the way they have seen it, the way it has been sold to them.”
“I mean if that’s the point and we were that powerful to be infecting people, we would have infected everybody in Nigeria with the level of hate we get. But that’s not how things work,” he said.
“Film has a huge part and I also hope that the community starts tapping into how we also tell our stories because it is not just going to happen,” he says.
“We have to take the lead as well and say how do we release our own movies that actually talk about our own story”, but I hope it gets through the film censors board” he adds.
Alimi got married on November 5, 2016, to his lover Anthony in the UK.
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