Taiwo
Whenever Taiwo* try five-years-old, he was hit down which have chronic malaria. To have cures, he was delivered to an “Aunty Nurse”, a medical attendant exactly who did during the a drugstore and you will are a great respected member of his parents’ church. She inserted Taiwo that have medicines, but in doing this, damaged his sciatic courage. The young son recovered of malaria, however, their leftover feet try forever paralysed.
Sitting across away from me personally within a fast food joint within the Ibadan, Taiwo, today 30, tells me how he has to undergo dehumanising comments on the his disability, and even more throughout the getting gay.
“ Besides growing up with slurs out-of my friends, that’s like the larger community perspective into handicapped, I have various other dose of it throughout the [queer] community,” he adds.
Taiwo claims he was shortly after speaking with somebody on Grindr, and you can discussing an excellent chemistry. They traded photo of its face, and full-length photographs, then others son questioned “what makes your condition like that?” immediately after which prohibited him.
“The majority of people I fulfill are only for everyday hookups with no assumption off nothing serious,” says Taiwo.
