United Kingdom-based Nigerian gay and LGBT rights activist, Bisi Alimi, has married his British lover, Anthony on Saturday in England.
The rights activist made this known in a message he posted on his Twitter handle on Saturday, displaying a picture of him and the lover, Anthony. Both had dated for some years before the wedding.
An excited Alimi said on social media, “In the presence of friends and family from around the world, Anthony and I will say ‘I Do’. But we remember places in the world where love is (a) crime.”
In his native Nigeria same-sex relationship/marriage attracts a 14-year jail term for offenders.
As a prelude to the wedding, Alimi had also shared pictures of his ‘Bachelors’ party’ on social media.
“When your wife has arrived for your wedding, then you know the party is about to start. Bring it on,” Alimi wrote on his Facebook post on Friday.
Congratulations have been pouring in from the LGBT community .
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