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A giant billboard mounted Ghana's pal, Accra, to mark pri month - to celebrate lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muni - has been pulled down.

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GAY PRI BILLBOARD PULLED DOWN GHANA’S PAL, ACCRA

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Last year, Ghanaian secury shut down a European Unn-supported LGBTQ muny center, and some lawmakers are seekg to make gay rights advocy illegal. The fight for gay rights Ghana will be an uphill battle as the Wt Ain untry's parliament nsirs a law that will prosecute LGBTQ+ advot.

GAY PRI BILLBOARD PULLED DOWN GHANA'S PAL

June is a month set asi to celebrate Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer people across the world, but the celebratn is not visible most Ain untri. In Ghana, for stance, Gay sex is punishable, wh a prison term of three years. Rights groups say the bill is the “worst homophobic document ever”.

GAY PRI: GHANA AUTHORY PULLS DOWN BILLBOARD PROMOTG GAY ACCRA

Gay sex is illegal nservative, highly relig Ghana, but a proposed law will crimalise even LGBTQ advocy and impose longer jail terms for same-sex "Promotn of proper human sexual rights and Ghanaian fay valu" bill is parliament, but was wily nmned by the ternatnal muny and rights activists said they put up posters several metr high Accra and two other ci, wh phras such as "Love, Tolerance and Acceptance" posters quickly prompted lls om nservativ for police to take them down.

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

"Activist groups say the new bill is a setback for human rights Ghana and have lled on Print Nana Akufo-Addo's ernment to reject the bill is wily supported Ghana, where Akufo-Addo has said gay marriage will never be allowed while he is power. Ghana's Anglin bishops also endorsed the bill, sayg LGBTQ beliefs were "unbiblil and ungodly" and also agast Ghanaian tradn and stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and than half the untri sub-Saharan Ain have laws agast homosexualy, wh some punishg wh ath penalty unr sharia law, although there have been no known morn-day executns.

A giant billboard mounted Ghana's pal, Accra, to mark pri month -to celebrate lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muni - has been pulled sign had gone up over the weekend on the N1 Tema motorway, a major highway the cy, acrdg to media some MPs objected to , givg the head of police a 24-hour ultimatum to remove is still unclear who actually removed the sex is punishable the Wt Ain natn wh a prison term of three MP Sam Gee nfirmed a tweet on Thursday eveng that the billboard had been removed.

GAY PRI BILLBOARD DEMOLISHED GHANA’S PAL, ACCRA

Power to our cultural sovereignty, " he 's parliament has been batg a bill that propos to impose harsh penalti on the LGBT groups say the bill is the "worst homophobic document ever".

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