I don't usually come on here to say this, but today it feels heavy on my heart. As a Straight Sierra Leonean woman, it really disgusts me how homophobic our country is and West Africa in general (I was also seeing hateful comments from other West Africans)
I honestly don’t understand why some people get so offended by (LGBTQ+) people. Truly why does two consenting adults living their honest life bother us much? How does their existence make us so uncomfortable that we feel the need to throw slurs, make hateful comments, or even go as far as murder? Homophobia should never be tolerated. Not the insults, not the “jokes,” not the violence , nothing.
People are losing their lives because of pure hatred. We have become so hateful, it’s disgusting. And it’s crazy because thousands of Sierra Leoneans are struggling with poverty, hunger, unemployment, failing education system every day yet somehow LGBtQ people are constantly treated as if they are our biggest problem. We are focused on the wrong thing. We need to do better.