Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto Style:Hardcover and finding love in unexpected

and finding love in unexpected places

and the painful cost of claiming our true selves

Shortly after the announcement is made

As Aces shows no sign of stopping

Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto Style:Hardcover and finding love in unexpectedBy: Edafe Okporo On the eve of Edafe Okporos twenty sixth birthday, he was awoken to a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding for yearsthat he is a gay man. Left with no other choice, he purchased a one way plane ticket to New York City and fled for his life. Though America had always been painted to him as a land of freedom and opportunity, it was anything but