A 53-year-old Nigerian lesbian woman based in the United States, has married her American ‘wife’.
The Nigerian woman, Moji Solar-Percy, walked down the aisle during the week.
Solar-Percy is a real estate mogul, runs a company, Solar Worldwide Realty Inc. in Staten Island, New York.
She hails from Ijero-Ekiti in Ekiti State.
The businesswoman made her marriage known on her Facebook page.
Although she did not disclose the name of her partner, Solar-Percy describes herself as a mother, realtor, LGBT activist, speaker, coach.
Here’s what the LGBT activist wrote:
“Today I woke up in a cold sweat. I was drenched with fear, for a moment. I forgot where I was.”
She celebrated the freedom that she would not have had in Nigeria.
The realtor gushed about her love for the woman, with whom she probably would have been arrested if the wedding had taken place in Nigeria.
In Nigeria, such a gay marriage would have met with a clampdown from authorities.
Recall that Nigeria’s Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Law, which prescribes up to 14 years imprisonment upon conviction.
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She continued: “I ask you all to close your eyes, imagine what would have happened Saturday at our wedding if we were in Nigeria.
“Even though we went to great lengths to make sure we had security, the thought of the police barging in and arresting all our guests, my wife and I, to be carted off to jail, the women raped and beaten, the men brutalised, and my children beaten along with everyone else.
“When I got my bearings, I got on my knees and thanked God for his grace of living in the US.
“Then I remembered all the people that could not do what we did with grace and class.
Female Nigerian marries lesbian partner in US
“To all of you (gay) all over Africa, #westandforyou.
“May all our days be filled with blessings and grace.
“My make-up was all I wanted that day. My weave looked like it grew out of my scalp.
“To have my first child do my hair and makeup, then walk me down the aisle was one of the best memories of the evening.
According to her, the daughter had been doing her hair and makeup since she was 12.
The wedding was well attended by other Nigerians in the US.
Solar-Percy and her bridge decked up in both traditional attires, while another picture she posted showed her wearing a white wedding gown and being attended to by her first child.
Friends say Solar-Percy has never hidden her sexual orientation.
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