Ghana: anti-gay bill proposg 10-year prison sentenc sparks outrage | Global velopment | The Guardian

Contents:

• EXPLAER: WHAT MAK GHANA’S ANTI-GAY BILL SO EXTREME?
• TOP 13 COUNTRI WH BIGGT GAY POPULATNS
• GAY ACTIVISTS GHANA MAND RELEASE OF 21 PEOPLE ARRTED AT LGBTQI NFERENCE
• HOW 2 GAY MEN LIVE A COUNTRY WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL
• GAY LIFE GHANA--IN DANGER AND IN THE CLOSET
• ONE PERCENT OF GHANAIANS ARE GAY OR LBIAN
• GHANA: ANTI-GAY BILL PROPOSG 10-YEAR PRISON SENTENC SPARKS OUTRAGE
• THE NEW ANTI-GAY BILL PROPOSED GHANA WILL DTROY LIV

EXPLAER: WHAT MAK GHANA’S ANTI-GAY BILL SO EXTREME?

If passed s current form, rights groups say uld spark a wch-hunt of sexual mori, advocy groups and “alli”, forcg the public to report on their are some of the ma measur, wh excerpts om the bill self:A clampdown on LGBTQ+ intyThe law would crimalise, wh up to five years prison, intifyg as a LGBTQ+ person, havg a gay relatnship or terurse.

(A) person ms an offence if the person holds out as a lbian, a gay, a transgenr, a transsexual, a queer, a pansexual, an ally …. Shone Apong, a paralegal and advote for mori Ghana, says the bill is an attack on the existence of anyone believed to be gay or queer. It was put forward by a cross-party group of MPs led by Sam Gee, an opposn MP and one of the most proment anti-gay figur parliament.

Top 13 Countri wh Biggt Gay Populatns Fance Watchlists My Portfol Markets Optns: Hight Open Intert Optns: Hight Implied Volatily News Vios Yahoo Fance Pl Screeners Personal Fance High-yield savgs acunt rat Crypto Indtri Contact Us S&P Futur Dow Futur Nasdaq Futur Rsell 2000 Futur C Oil Gold Silver EUR/USD 10-Yr Bond Vix GBP/USD USD/JPY B USD CMC Crypto 200 FTSE 100 Nikkei 225 Top 13 Countri wh Biggt Gay PopulatnsThe top 13 untri wh the biggt gay populatns are surprisgly very rarely the list of untri where gay marriage is legal. Click to skip ahead and jump to the top 5 untri wh the biggt gay gay populatns has e a long way om beg persecuted for simply existg across the world, to beg able to safely marry over 20 untri.

TOP 13 COUNTRI WH BIGGT GAY POPULATNS

However, there is still a very long way to go, pecially many untri where beg gay is equivalent to mtg a ser crime, even though the former hurts no one, except perhaps some people's the Uned Stat is known for claimg champns human rights, we all know that only champns the rights of whe mal. In 1969, the Stonewall Inn New York Cy was raid by police, a sanctuary for homosexuals, triggerg outrage across the untry and is said to be a landmark moment the progrs of gay rights. 10 Gayt Countri In Europeno/ I mentned earlier, many untri, homosexualy is still illegal, and even punishable by ath.

GAY ACTIVISTS GHANA MAND RELEASE OF 21 PEOPLE ARRTED AT LGBTQI NFERENCE

Most of the untri who severely crimalize homosexualy are Mlim, as Islam has always severely been agast homosexualy. Even untri where s not a severe crime, or even not a crime at all, the stigma wh homosexualy still exs, bee of which many people are still reluctant g out.

HOW 2 GAY MEN LIVE A COUNTRY WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL

Most of the untri are prent the 15 most dangero untri for gay homosexualy is a naturally occurrg event (no matter what your relign tells you) that is not affected by race, culture or any other discrimatory factor, every untry should have a siar percentage of gay people. Sendly, gay people may move to other untri which are more receptive to homosexuals, such as the 11 most gay iendly ci the world. Bee of the limatns, there are very few studi, but we found a relevant one om the US Natnal Center for Btechnology Informatn, which lculated the number of gay and bisexual men each untry om UNAIDs timat and social media.

We also lculated the per pal homosexual populatn of each untry after obtag the total populatns of each untry om World Bank. Gambia has strict laws agast homosexualy, but the homosexual populatn has a strong prence social media and hence, mak our list. MraniaExpect many more Ain untri this list, where aga spe a small populatn, there is a strong prence of homosexuals on social media.

Ivory CoastWhile the Ivory Coast, homosexual acts are legal private, that is not te for public gay acts, and n land you prison for a cent length of time. GhanaThe ernment self has e down on Ghanians who engage homosexual relatns, and any gay people n the risk of gog to jail for any such acts.

GAY LIFE GHANA--IN DANGER AND IN THE CLOSET

UkraeWhile homosexualy is not officially illegal Ukrae as is most untri we've already mentned, the prevalent attu is extremely negative towards homosexuals who face extreme discrimatn. NigeriaNigeria has one of the most rtrictive anti homosexual laws the world, but if anythg, this list is proof that reprsg somethg will not be able to ever eradite .

ONE PERCENT OF GHANAIANS ARE GAY OR LBIAN

Donkor said the nference which the police had tagged an “unlawful assembly” was a paralegal trag for gay activists as discrimatn agast sexual mori remas rife Ghana. Intolerance and vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people have ntued to thrive among Ghana’s populatn, acrdg to Human Rights Watch. The gay activist hop that the #ReleaseThe21 mpaign would expand the public nversatn around tolerance and rpect for gay rights Ghana.

GHANA: ANTI-GAY BILL PROPOSG 10-YEAR PRISON SENTENC SPARKS OUTRAGE

Some 37 Ain untri crimalize homosexual relatnships, wh penalti rangg om mismeanors to ath sentenc, acrdg to a Human Rights Campaign Foundatn and Human Rights First report released Tuday. In Ghana, a untry often regard as among the most progrsively mocratic natns Ai, homosexualy remas illegal, punishable by up to three years imprisonment. A recent Pew survey of var untri, not all Ain, reveals that 98 percent of Ghanaians feel that homosexualy is “morally unacceptable, ” the hight percentage of any untry surveyed.

THE NEW ANTI-GAY BILL PROPOSED GHANA WILL DTROY LIV

“In Ghana, everybody is culturally and religly bld, ” says Fred K., an openly gay man livg the Ghanaian pal of Accra who didn’t want to share his last name for fear of crimal and social repercsns. “My fellow gays don’t want anythg to be legalized, ” Nana Yaw, a human rights activist and openly gay man, says. “I had vised Ghana six tim ( the last five years), on bs and pleasure, and had never really explored gay life that untry, bee of my mandg bs schle.

On my vis to Ghana June 2003, I fally met wh my “new” young gay Ghanaian iend, who then troduced me to the “not so closeted” gay Ghanaian life. Most of the gays that equent the night spots are not rtraed eher drs or behavur and fely seem to be out of the closet, at least whilst they are at the venu. They equent the and var nightspots offerg their “servic” to the unspectg tourist and then end up blackmailg the tourist, takg advantage of the illegal stat of the beg gay Ghana.

On the topic of lbian relatnships, Cam was told that they are more acceptable to the heterosexual muny than are gay relatnships between two men, but no reason was given for this. “One of the young gay men, 27 years of age, that I beme good iends wh, has been married for a jt over a month, and is ready to “father” his first child.