Ghana gay activists mand release of 21 people arrted at LGBTQ nference | CNN

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• GAY ACTIVISTS GHANA MAND RELEASE OF 21 PEOPLE ARRTED AT LGBTQI NFERENCE
• GAY LIFE GHANA--IN DANGER AND IN THE CLOSET
• GAYS ACCRA - ACCRA FOM
• GHANA TOPS GAY LIST AI

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

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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 activi.Here 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.Marryg or tendg to marry someone who has had genr reassignment surgery would also be crimalised, wh up to five years prison.The bill also addrs “gross cency public”. (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 ….

GAY LIFE GHANA--IN DANGER AND IN THE CLOSET

That iIt would shut down the advocy space, so that even providg assistance or even simply argug for better treatment is illegal.” he said.A duty to reportAnyone ma aware of gay acts who fails to report them uld also be crimalised. 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. The print, Nana Akufo-Addo, will then ci whether to give assent, send the bill back to parliament or reject .Who is behd the bill?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.

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Both are active Ai and other parts of the world fightg agast abortn rights and gay rights. 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.

Donkor told CNN that homophobia manifts var forms Ghana. Police spokman, Dogbatse, says he is unwillg to ment on homophobia Ghana.

The gay activist hop that the #ReleaseThe21 mpaign would expand the public nversatn around tolerance and rpect for gay rights Ghana. Cam is a South ain who travels to Ghana on bs and had this to say about gay life there. “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.

GHANA TOPS GAY LIST AI

I had, however, munited by e-mail wh a young gay Ghanaian man over the last year. 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.