House of Rainbow: the new pink line dividing the world | Droolin Dog dot Net

Cecil John Rhodes vowed to paint a pink line – the colour of British dominion – across the world. Now a new pink line has been drawn, a human rights frontier around sexuality and gender identity that divides the globe in a new way To get to House of Rainbow you turn off the Apata Road from Ibadan at the Moco petrol station and you make your way down a rutted track through a cluttered market. Ibadan is Yoruba heartland, the region’s commercial hub and the home of what was once Africa’s most illustrious university. Here, on Ibadan’s western fringes, shanty-commerce rubs against gated residential compounds, and at the end of the track you enter one of these: three buildings, in various stages of distress, around a car park. You knock on the door through the locked gate on the corner unit of one of the buildings; once you are appraised through the keyhole the gate will be unlocked and you will enter a living room with white plastic chairs set in makeshift pews around an altar, beneath a rainbow banner with the word “PEACE” painted on to it. Continue reading… Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/04/house-of-rainbow-the-new-pink-line-dividing-the-world Tags: #IndieBrew, Equality and Liberty | #Equality, IndieBrew, World News | #WorldNews, #MusicNews

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