Lagos, Nigeria — Before meeting her chosen family, Beauty, a lesbian woman and activist, struggled with identity and acceptance within her traditional family. Reflecting on her journey, she shares her experiences with familial acceptance and the pressures of conforming to societal expectations. “I battled with my sexuality,” she recounts, “I didn’t have all the information to be aware of what it meant to be lesbian.” Beauty is not out to her family, and her attempts to come out to them have been met with denial. “When I told my sister a long time ago that I was lesbian, she asked me to pray about it so it would leave me,” she shares.