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Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by 77up(m): 4:13pm On May 22, 2019
SweetBuns:
Another idiot is gone.

I hate homosexuality
They are shamelessly denying you girls of your gbola.



I hate them too >sad
Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by ImaIma1(f): 4:29pm On May 22, 2019
sinaj:
Noticed that HIV is prevalent amongst gays


HIV s like headache for.them.

The HIV predominance doesn't deter the gay populace still
Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by texia(f): 5:32pm On May 22, 2019
Homosexuality and AIDS
Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by texia(f): 5:39pm On May 22, 2019
E pain this one tongue
CAPSLOCKED:


FORGET ABOUT SPEAKING IGNORANTLY, AND SHOW ME STATISTICS.

HOW MANY GAY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED IN THE LAST 10 YEARS?

IF THEY ARE 10 IN TOTAL, POSITIVE PEOPLE WITH HIV WILL BE NUMBERING IN MILLIONS.





IT DOESN'T MATTER MUMMY, EVEN YOU WILL DIE.



LOL, NOBODY CARES.

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Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by owila4luv(m): 6:08pm On May 22, 2019
shameful
Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by tianshie(m): 6:10pm On May 22, 2019
This was a brilliant and kind intellectual. He helped a lot of young writers in Africa. All of you Nigerian homophobes are bottom-feeding hypocrites. It's laughable that folks in a country high on the corruption index are suddenly clutching pearls at the death of a gay person. Sh*t inhaling Mor*ns.
Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by lemonys(m): 6:57pm On May 22, 2019
tianshie:
This was a brilliant and kind intellectual. He helped a lot of young writers in Africa. All of you Nigerian homophobes are bottom-feeding hypocrites. It's laughable that folks in a country high on the corruption index are suddenly clutching pearls at the death of a gay person. Sh*t inhaling Mor*ns.
you call us homophobes but we are protecting humanity from doom, have you for once in your life thought of what will happen to humanity if all humans decide to become gays and lesbians.
Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by Summerbody: 7:03pm On May 22, 2019
Loose all manner of weight using your domestic broom



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGWITo8t11k
Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by Summerbody: 7:05pm On May 22, 2019
He is a fine pretty beautiful lady
Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by shiki(m): 8:04pm On May 22, 2019
sinaj:
Noticed that HIV is prevalent amongst gays

Longest time, where have you been cheesy
Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by Kokoebapluse(m): 8:11pm On May 22, 2019
Fine eee no fine, sense ee no get, I do not know what this kind doing in society?



I trust Sharia law,
Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by themanderon: 8:22pm On May 22, 2019
sinaj:
Noticed that HIV is prevalent amongst gays

Its one truth they try to cover up. HIV might have originated from gays.
Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by Insectkiller: 9:33pm On May 22, 2019
Mtcheeww!
shocked shocked
goldcoinhub:
Binyavanga Wainaina is dead – The Prize-winning Kenyan writer died after a short illness at the age of 48.

His family represented by his brother James Wainaina, said his death is a great loss to the family and they would want to celebrate his life.

“We are in a life celebration mood, we’re looking at this from a human level; it’s a human story. Allow that humanness to shine, people are hurting,” he said.

He won the Caine Prize for African writing in 2002 and was best known around the world for his satirical essay How to Write About Africa.

Wainaina was also named among Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2014 for his gay rights activism.

He “demystified and humanized homosexuality” author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote at the time.

Wainaina was one of the first high-profile Kenyans to openly declare he was gay and “he felt an obligation to chip away at the shame” that people felt about being gay, Adichie added.

Homosexual relations are currently illegal in Kenya but the Supreme Court is due to rule on Friday whether to overturn the law banning them.

Wainaina had won the Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story Discovering Home in 2002. Following the passage of a series of anti-gay laws across Africa in 2014, Wainaina publicly announced that he was gay.

In December 2016, Wainaina posted on Twitter that he was HIV-positive.

In 2014, his personal life took centre stage when he told the world he had known he was gay since he was five, BBC reports.

A year later, he suffered a stroke. The next year, in 2016, he announced he was HIV-positive on World Aids Day. In 2018, against all odds, he said he would marry his boyfriend in South Africa.

Wainaina will not have his wedding. But he leaves behind an LGBT community in Kenya, many of whom were emboldened by his bravery.
sad
https://lailasnews.com/binyavanga-wainaina-is-dead-hiv-gay-rights-activist-passes-on/

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Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by ThatFairGuy: 9:37pm On May 22, 2019
Practice it in Nigeria and go to jail.... #AdvocacyAgainstSinfulAct #AdvocacyAgainstHomosexualism
twerkjack:
Legalize homosexuality




LGBT Nigeria better stand up and fight for your rights as humans to be yourselves
Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by Sard(m): 10:36pm On May 22, 2019
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FORGET ABOUT SPEAKING IGNORANTLY, AND SHOW ME STATISTICS.

HOW MANY GAY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED IN THE LAST 10 YEARS?

IF THEY ARE 10 IN TOTAL, POSITIVE PEOPLE WITH HIV WILL BE NUMBERING IN MILLIONS.





IT DOESN'T MATTER MUMMY, EVEN YOU WILL DIE.



LOL, NOBODY CARES.

Prevalence is not just about number of diseased individuals. It's about the number of diseased individuals in comparison to their total population.
For instance, if there are 100 gays somewhere and 1,000 straight people. Let's assume 10 gays have HIV while 50 straight individuals have HIV. Although the number of straights with HIV is higher, it's still more prevalent among gays. This is because 10% of gays have while only 5% of straight individuals do.

And yes, gays are at higher risk of having HIV. So, HIV is more prevalent among them. https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-social-issues/key-affected-populations/men-sex-men
check that link for confirmation.
Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by kenx1(m): 10:52pm On May 22, 2019
Why do gay men look funny
Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by ADEJARE777: 2:57am On May 23, 2019
Hmmmm

Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by Daguccizgreat(m): 4:54am On May 23, 2019
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FORGET ABOUT SPEAKING IGNORANTLY, AND SHOW ME STATISTICS.

HOW MANY GAY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED IN THE LAST 10 YEARS?

IF THEY ARE 10 IN TOTAL, POSITIVE PEOPLE WITH HIV WILL BE NUMBERING IN MILLIONS.





IT DOESN'T MATTER MUMMY, EVEN YOU WILL DIE.



LOL, NOBODY CARES.
Gay advocate. Are you one ?
Re: Binyavanga Wainaina Is Dead! HIV Positive Gay Rights Activist And Author Dies by calliope(f): 10:41pm On May 23, 2019
He was the butterfly and the flowers. The motion many thrive to beat. A true voice that sailed like a boat on the nile, upsetting the waters that aimed to kill.

Dear Binj,
Where do we go when we leave this place?
Rest well. cry

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