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“He’s Gay. We Will Kill Him:” Nigerian-American Actor Performs One-Man Show About LGBTQ Asylum Seeker

 

Gbenga Akinnagbe starred in a show at the Bronx Heritage Music Center highlighting the issues surrounding LBGT asylum seekers.  Read more on Documented.  The story (“`He’s Gay. We Will Kill Him:’ Nigerian-American Actor Performs One-Man Show About LGBTQ Asylum Seeker”) begins:

“`Sir please, please, I cannot return back to Nigeria. I will be killed for being gay,’ the actor Gbenga Akinnagbe said as he reenacted the true life story of Edafe Okporo to a crowd at a community forum in the Bronx Music Heritage center . . . .”

KJ

 

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