Pride and Self-Love in the L.G.B.T.Q. African Diaspora – The New York Times

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Pride and Self-Love in the L.G.B.T.Q. African Diaspora

Mikael Owunna met and photographed more than 50 L.G.B.T.Q. Africans in 10 countries across Europe and North America, and the resulting images exhibit the power that comes from insiders documenting their own community.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/lens/pride-and-self-love-in-the-lgbtq-african-diaspora.html

When Mikael Owunna returned to his family’s home in Pittsburgh after finishing a Fulbright Fellowship in Taiwan, it was unsettling. He and his family were originally from Nigeria, where gay Africans like him were scorned and mistreated. While grappling with long suppressed anxiety and depression because of that cultural tension, he saw an exhibition of the work of Zanele Muholi, the chronicler of queer experience in South Africa.