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• GAY ACTIVISTS GHANA MAND RELEASE OF 21 PEOPLE ARRTED AT LGBTQI NFERENCE
• EXPLAER: WHAT MAK GHANA’S ANTI-GAY BILL SO EXTREME?
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GAY ACTIVISTS GHANA MAND RELEASE OF 21 PEOPLE ARRTED AT LGBTQI NFERENCE

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

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. But what one Ghanaian activist lls a “homophobe’s dream bill” has ep roots Ghana’s relig muny.

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. “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. This draft “Fay Valu” bill seems to be one more eratn of the homophobic iativ emanatg om their nferenc,” he says.

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“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. Joe, the gay Ghanaian who was beaten and thrown out of his home, spent jt a few days at the safe hoe Accra before movg on. 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.