Suspected Gay Men Forced To March Naked Through Nigeria's Capital Before Being Beaten By Police And

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75. Is Ralph Nader to blame for this too?

If anything it a legacy of the British.

Most of sub-Saharan Africa that were under British colonial rule have laws that criminalize homosexuality. And we need to kind of understand the history of this. And the reality is it's a curious consequence of British colonial rule, that the British left a legacy of these laws that criminalize gay sex. It was an obsession of the British in the 19th century to criminalize gay sex. You have this extraordinary statistic that out of 53 commonwealth countries that there are, 42 of those countries criminalize homosexuality. And that just gives you a sense of the extent to which this is a British colonial legacy.

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/18/263651508/nigeria-passes-harsh-anti-gay-law

It has nothing to do with Russia.