AF+

Love In A Sinking City: A Queer Timeline

“Today I am 28. It is 2023. In Nigeria, it is illegal to do the things I did freely at the beaches in Toronto; watch my queer friends kiss under the eyes of a cloudy sun, hold hands with a woman on a rain-less night intoxicated by wine and wishfulness. I lie to a taxi driver, tell him that I have a fiancé. I show him a picture, a man. My cousin doesn’t know how often his image has saved me from lecherous men. Here, fiction can be a raft in a sea…”

Culture

Obsessed: Twin Flames Universe, a New Age Cult With a Surprising and Insidious Approach To Turning Gay People Straight

Two documentaries about the Twin Flames Universe exposes a psuedo-spiritual cult that emotionally abuses and financially exploits its followers who are simply looking for love. Underneath their alleged LGBTQ+ acceptance, however, lied a practice described as what would happen “if excessive liberal progressives got drunk and had a baby with conservative Christians.”