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EXPLAER: WHAT MAK GHANA’S ANTI-GAY BILL SO EXTREME?
Draft bill would crimalise intifyg as gay and uld see tersex people pelled to unrgo surgery * gay issues in ghana *
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. 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.
GAY LIFE GHANA--IN DANGER AND IN THE CLOSET
The Mister-signate of Genr, Children and Social Protectn, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has oped that acrdg to the laws of Ghana, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) is prohibed. | Pulse Ghana * gay issues in ghana *
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. Tucked away a neighborhood of Accra, off Aflao Road, a group of Ghanaian gay activists e the hoe to gather secret and provi shelter to LGBTQ people need.
A recent march by over a thoand Ghanian Mlims agast “the growg activi of gays and lbians” this Wt-Ain untry * gay issues in ghana *
Vio after vio show Ghanaians – mostly men perceived as beg gay – beg harassed and beaten on mera, sometim stripped naked by their assailants. Jt a short drive om parliament, we meet a proment gay activist at Accra’s Black Star Square, where an arch memoratg Ghana’s pennce celebrat “Freedom and Jtice. Bediako, who ns the NGO Rightify Ghana, nounced the claim that homosexualy is a Wtern import or that LGBTQ activists were out to rec and nvert straight Ghanaians.
Supporters and opponents of Ghana's new anti-LGBT bill faced off parliament on Wednday the first public heargs to the proposed legislatn that would make a crime to be gay, bisexual or transgenr. * gay issues in ghana *
“The same people they claim to have brought homosexualy to Ai are the same people who told them to have this hate they are g agast , ” he says.
“Those who are promotg gays and lbians are not gog to have children at all, and wh a short time nobody should be surprised that Mlims will bee a majory this untry and clare an Islamic state, ” Archbishop Philip Naameh, the print of the Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference, told CNN. In a massive onle prayer rally March entled: “Homosexualy: a ttable s to God, ” pastors at the lns-strong Pentestal Church said was a matter of “natnal secury” to pass a law; they ntue to ph members of parliament to follow through wh their plans.
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”The “anti-LGBT bill” troduced Ghana last Augt and currently unr review by a parliamentary mtee, would be one of the harsht and most sweepg of such laws current draft of the bill, proposed by opposn MPs and publicly backed by officials Print Nana Akufo-Addo’s ernment and lg New Patrtic party, crimalis gay and queer acts or intifyg as a LGBTQ+ person, punishable by up to five years’ also crimalis any form of advocy for LGBTQ+ people wh up to 10 years prison.