{"id":734327,"date":"2019-10-30T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T14:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/30\/bisi-alimi-organizes-first-ever-lgbt-pride-event-in-lagos-photo\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T14:27:10","slug":"bisi-alimi-organizes-first-ever-lgbt-pride-event-in-lagos-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/30\/bisi-alimi-organizes-first-ever-lgbt-pride-event-in-lagos-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bisi Alimi Organizes First Ever LGBT Pride Event In Lagos (Photo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Nigerian Gay rights activist, Bisi Alimi successfully organized the first-ever lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, LGBT, pride event in Lagos on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_708217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-708217\" style=\"width: 844px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-708217\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bisi-alimi2.jpg\" alt=\"Gay Rights Activist Bisi Alimi\" width=\"844\" height=\"633\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-708217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bisi Alimi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The HIV\/LGBT advocate returned to Nigeria so he could attend the event themed, Night of Diversity 2019 organized by the Bisi Alimi Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Alimi took to social media give a summary on how the event went and a photo of himself.<\/p>\n<p>The public speaker wrote:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWE DID IT! We organised an LGBT pride event in Lagos<\/em><br \/><em>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Last night was a blast in Lagos, 9 LGBT took to stage for what was an incredible showing of rainbow awesomeness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The celebs and stars also came. It was a great night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you to everyone that showed up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We never thought that when we decided to organise something close to an LGBT pride event in Lagos that we will;<\/em><br \/><em>1- find a venue<\/em><br \/><em>2- find sponsorships for it<\/em><br \/><em>3- find artists<\/em><br \/><em>4- that people will come<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Despite the crazy traffic in Lagos yesterday, great number of people turned up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We found a venue, 9 acts performed at the event and we got grants from Elton John AIDS Foundation,\u00a0Martin Prendergast, Stephen Fry and Paul Gambaccini<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The British Deputy High Commission provide an amazing venue.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>See you at the Diversity Night in 2020\u2033<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Read Also: Women With 8 Inches Clitories Can Be Considered As Men: Supreme Court<\/h4>\n<p>See the full post below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-719905 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5db952c44505d.jpg\" alt=\"Bisi Alimi's post\" width=\"720\" height=\"892\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-719902 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5db95320081de.jpg\" alt=\"Bisi Alimi's post\" width=\"720\" height=\"585\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-719903 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5db953d35cd25.png\" alt=\"Bisi Alimi's post\" width=\"448\" height=\"656\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Gay rights activist, Bisi Alimi successfully organized the first-ever lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, LGBT, pride event in Lagos on Tuesday. Bisi Alimi The HIV\/LGBT advocate returned to Nigeria so he could attend the event themed, Night of Diversity 2019 organized by the Bisi Alimi Foundation. Alimi took to social media give a summary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":734328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bisi Alimi Organizes First Ever LGBT Pride Event In Lagos (Photo) - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/30\/bisi-alimi-organizes-first-ever-lgbt-pride-event-in-lagos-photo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Bisi Alimi Organizes First Ever LGBT Pride Event In Lagos (Photo) - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nigerian Gay rights activist, Bisi Alimi successfully organized the first-ever lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, LGBT, pride event in Lagos on Tuesday. 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