Since Nigeria passed a law criminalising homosexuality in January, Gordon Austin has faced attacks, abuse, arrests and extortion in the south-west-em city of Ibadan. And the legislation has had an even more insidious effect on the 25-year-old. He is hiv-positive: getting health care has become harder. "I am not safe going to public health centres because of who I am," he says. "I would never tell them I am a gay man-they would deny me treatment." To get life-preserving antiretroviral drugs, he has to lie about his sexuality. "I have to pretend I am heterosexual because of the stigma," he explains. "I have to live a fake life, a life that is not mine, just to get the health care I need."
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