A threatening homosexuality master narrative is put up via cultural myths ruling in Kenyan media yet disputed by innate identity assertions via strategic essentialism and glocalized naming practices. Employing participant observation and creative focus group methodologies with gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans*, and intersex community members and journalists in Nairobi, Kenya, this inquiry shows the need of cultural humility whilst handling modern lacks in the research on queer identities in intercultural scholarship and communication studies within African contexts.