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Sef Adeola's reckoning with queerness

I come from a Christian background which perhaps could explain my bigotry in my early years but as I read more, as I realized that I didn't know anything, becoming more liberal as an individual, I asked myself, what really have queer people done to me?

Solomon Elusoji
Jun 30, 2019
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Pride Fille by Sef Adeola
Pride Fille by Sef Adeola

This month, for the magazine cover, Sef Adeola illustrated queer couples. He told me he wasn't always liberal about homosexuality.

I'll like to talk about you. How did you get here, being an artist? There's this quote - can't remember who it's attributed to - that we all start out as artists and, along the way, some lose their wa…

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