Francis Egwuatu, current Mr Universe Nigeria, insists, that he is not gay just because he went for a male pageant.
Francis Egwuatu
“I am not gay, and it is very annoying when people make such comments. There was this girl that added me on twitter. She was like; ‘Tell me the truth, are you gay?’ It was so annoying. Some people think that for you to win the pageant you must be gay and men must sleep with you and all, but that’s not true.”
Even on Linda Ikeji’s blog when he was profiled people started to post bad comments about him. He just wants to say that participating in beauty contests is a hard work like any other job.
In his interview with the Nation he mentioned:
“I just wish I could do a story and the heading will just be ‘I am not gay’. People have concluded in their mind that we are gays. Even when I was profiled on Linda Ikeji’s blog, there were comments like, gay alert; the guy is gay and all that. People feel if you are a male pageant contestant, the only hard work you need to do is to sleep in the room. That’s a negative thought, but I believe a person with a positive thought won’t think like that. For me, you just have to be positive; you just have to believe in yourself. I have gone for pageants that I lost (Mr. Tourism Nigeria), but that didn’t stop me from going for more.”
He also added that he doesn’t think bad about gay, but it is hard to be a gay person in Nigeria:
“Actually, it’s bad in our country. It’s not right; God has made it a man to woman, not a man to man or woman to woman. It’s very wrong, just like its meant to be a negative to positive not positive to positive or a negative to negative, it’s quite bad, I don’t think it’s cool.”
Francis Egwuatu Deacon beat 36 other contestants to become Mr Universe Nigeria 2014, at the Bespoke centre, Lekki Lagos.
“I just wish I could do a story and the heading will just be ‘I am not gay’. People have concluded in their mind that we are gays. Even when I was profiled on Linda Ikeji’s blog, there were comments like, gay alert; the guy is gay and all that. People feel if you are a male pageant contestant, the only hard work you need to do is to sleep in the room. That’s a negative thought, but I believe a person with a positive thought won’t think like that. For me, you just have to be positive; you just have to believe in yourself. I have gone for pageants that I lost (Mr. Tourism Nigeria), but that didn’t stop me from going for more.”
He also added that he doesn’t think bad about gay, but it is hard to be a gay person in Nigeria:
“Actually, it’s bad in our country. It’s not right; God has made it a man to woman, not a man to man or woman to woman. It’s very wrong, just like its meant to be a negative to positive not positive to positive or a negative to negative, it’s quite bad, I don’t think it’s cool.”
Francis Egwuatu
Francis Egwuatu Deacon beat 36 other contestants to become Mr Universe Nigeria 2014, at the Bespoke centre, Lekki Lagos.
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