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Coming out to my straight Nigerian male friends

It's being ages since I completed a single blog post. So, to prevent my ever-present resistance to productivity, I will delve right into the meat of the matter. My aim in this article is to share my personal journey of coming out to two of my straight male friends and how things changed from that point on. Hi Felix. Yesterday sucked, because I was nabbed kissing a boy in public in the era of 14 years I and my colleague-turned-close-friend, Felix had decided to take on a private project together. This was in late 2014, a few weeks after I'd first joined Grindr in November. The owner of the project was a colleague of Felix's brother who works as a manager in one of the Tier 1 banks in Nigeria. We had decided that we'd do some work on the private project after work that fateful Thursday. However, that did not stop me from agreeing to an evening date with Fola that same day. Fola was a guy I'd meet on Grindr a few weeks ago. We'd been chatting for about thr...