How 2 Gay Men Live a Country Where Homosexualy Is Illegal | Time

Contents:

• GHANAIAN LBIANS & GAYS RE-OPEN THEIR OFFICE ACCRA
• EXPLAER: WHAT MAK GHANA’S ANTI-GAY BILL SO EXTREME?
• LGBTQ OFFICE GHANA LATT: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER GROUP MOBILIZE $38,000 GOFUNDME FOR NEW OFFICE SPACE AFTA POLICE RAID
• IDRIS ELBA AND NAOMI CAMPBELL SIGN LETTER BACKG GAY RIGHTS GHANA
• HOW 2 GAY MEN LIVE A COUNTRY WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL
• GAY LIFE GHANA--IN DANGER AND IN THE CLOSET
• GAY ACTIVISTS GHANA MAND RELEASE OF 21 PEOPLE ARRTED AT LGBTQI NFERENCE

GHANAIAN LBIANS & GAYS RE-OPEN THEIR OFFICE ACCRA

Ghana proscrib same-sex relatnships and tolerance and vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people has remaed rife among Ghana’s populatn, Human Rights Watch said.

The untry is one of more than 30 untri Ai where same-sex relatnships are agast the law, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA). Earlier this month, Print Joe Bin directed Uned Stat foreign partments and agenci to “promote and protect the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr persons everywhere. Print Bin sought to crimalize LGBTQI+ stat overseas a memo issued on Febary 4 where he threatened wi-rangg sanctns agast untri where gay rights are supprsed.

However, Ghana rpond by rpondg that the untry’s laws are supreme, and legislatn crimalizg gay sexual activi would rema place.

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.

LGBTQ OFFICE GHANA LATT: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER GROUP MOBILIZE $38,000 GOFUNDME FOR NEW OFFICE SPACE AFTA POLICE RAID

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.

IDRIS ELBA AND NAOMI CAMPBELL SIGN LETTER BACKG GAY RIGHTS GHANA

This draft “Fay Valu” bill seems to be one more eratn of the homophobic iativ emanatg om their nferenc, ” 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. 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. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) anizatn have opened an admistrative office at Tano a surbub Accra, Ghana.

The Natnal Coaln for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Fay Valu is strongly mandg an immediate dissolutn of the admistrative office of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI’s office. 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.

HOW 2 GAY MEN LIVE A COUNTRY WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL

(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 …. 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.

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.

Both are active Ai and other parts of the world fightg agast abortn rights and gay rights. Gay sex is a crimal offence the Wt Ain untry and members of the LGBTQ muny face wispread discrimatn.

GAY LIFE GHANA--IN DANGER AND IN THE CLOSET

There is no legislatn Ghana explicly prohibg homosexualy, but gay sex is crimalised, wh offenrs potentially facg up to 25 years prison.

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

De group say m wan secure proper facily wey get solid tech secury stallatn, library, activism space n health Remend articl and ntue readgRemend articlEnd of Remend articlGhanaian lear Nana Akufo-Addo after public prsure talk Ghanaians say m no go legalize gay and lbian rights unr en bate about gay rights for Ghana y spl heads sake spe say more people y opposed to homosexual relatnship, some Ghanaians feel say people get right to exercise ma sexualy. Human Rights Watch said tolerance and vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people has remaed rife among Ghana’s populatn. A spokwoman for Ghana Police Service (GPS), told CNN on Saturday that the openg of the center was at variance wh the untry’s gay laws and prevalent opns on homosexual activi Ghana.

In a memo issued on Febary 4, Bin threatened wi-rangg sanctns agast untri where gay rights are supprsed. The Ghanaian ernment, however, sists that the untry’s laws are supreme, and legislatn crimalizg gay sexual activi would rema place. Some of the UK’s most proment people of Ghanaian herage have joed together to nmn their former homeland for s stance on gay rights what will be seen as an extraordary show of diaspora fluential nam fashn, film and media, cludg Idris Elba and the Vogue edor--chief, Edward Ennful, have signed an open letter support of Ghana’s LGBTQ+ muny.

Naomi Campbell, although, not of Ghanaian herage, has also put her name to the week a muny centre for LGBTQ+ people the wt Ain untry closed s doors after mountg prsure by relig groups and anti-gay anisatns agast sexual mori. Yet activists say abe agast LGBTQ+ Ghanaians has tensified recent years, fuelled by fluential anti-gay muny centre was set up by LGBT+ Rights Ghana.