S9 EP6: Bisi Alimi

Out with Suzi Ruffell

Keep It Light Media

Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Health & Fitness, Comedy

4.7 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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This week I'm joined for another brilliant episode by Bisi Alimi. Bisi is an incredible person from Nigeria. He was the first Nigerian to come out on TV, which, as you'll hear - led him to flee the country to escape violent homophobia that almost ended his life. Content warning - This episode also includes discussion about religious conversion attempts through the use of exorcism and also suicide attempts Please support Bisi Alimi Foundation - https://www.bisialimifoundation.org/ I loved hearing about their story and hope you do too. Please subscribe, rate and review. Thanks, Suzi xxx And if you want to get in touch with me on the show, here's how... email: [email protected] twitter: @outwithsuzi A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising and general enquiries: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:17.0	Hello this is Series 9 episode 6 of Out with me, Susie Ruffle. Hello, I hope you've had a good week, whenever you're listening to this.
0:21.2	I have so enjoyed making this series of the podcast, and I to this
0:23.4	series of the podcast and I really hope that you've enjoyed listening to it.
0:27.0	This will be the last episode and I intend to do another series later on this year or the beginning of next.
0:35.0	As I'm sure you know if you've been listening for a long time,
0:38.0	I just squeezed these in as and when I've got the time and I managed to carve out a little bit of time over the last month or so to record these
0:47.0	interviews and I really really hope that you've enjoyed them as much as I have.
0:51.0	First of all, thank you so much for all the emails that I've been receiving.
0:55.6	It honestly makes my heart sore every time I get one. It really means a lot. And thank you so
1:00.0	much to everyone that got in touch after last week's episode with Charlie Marlow.
1:03.6	I thought it was a great one and it seemed that all of you did too, so I'm delighted about that.
1:08.5	Now today's episode is a really special one.
1:12.3	It is with B.C. Alimi and he is an incredible person, an activist, a public speaker,
1:19.3	he was an actor. He has done so much a charity founder and I was just blown away by spending time with him.
1:28.3	I was thrilled to be able to give him an award at the Attitude Awards,
1:32.8	Attitude Asked me if I would sort of be the presenter for one of them and when I read about BC's story I was just
1:40.4	I was just blown away by his bravery and his spirit and it was genuinely a huge honor
1:50.3	to be able to stand on that stage with him and hear his story in front of lots of people at those awards and
1:56.7	I just knew that I would love to share his story on the podcast. I just want to put a slight warning at the beginning of this podcast. I think that it's really important that we hear stories like B.C. I think we need to carry on knowing that the fight for equality is still very much on. You know, we're in Pride season now in the UK and it's easy to forget
2:16.2	what's happening globally to our queer brothers and sisters. And I think this episode is really, really
2:21.6	important, but I will say this episode does deal with some really heavy topics
2:26.8	He has experienced real brutality
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