A Ghanaian urt on Tuday nied bail to 21 gay rights activists arrted nearly three weeks ago for what police scribed as an unlawful gatherg, their lawyer said.
Contents:
- GAY ACTIVISTS GHANA MAND RELEASE OF 21 PEOPLE ARRTED AT LGBTQI NFERENCE
- EXPLAER: WHAT MAK GHANA’S ANTI-GAY BILL SO EXTREME?
- GHANA LGBT: WHY HIGH PROFILE GHANAIAN PROFSORS, LAWYERS Y FIGHT AGAST ANTI-GAY BILL
GAY ACTIVISTS GHANA MAND RELEASE OF 21 PEOPLE ARRTED AT LGBTQI NFERENCE
Arbrary arrts and tentn of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Ghana, and a proposed dranian anti-LGBT bill are g ser enomic hardship and psychologil strs for LGBT people, Human Rights Watch said today. * ghana lgbt *
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.
EXPLAER: WHAT MAK GHANA’S ANTI-GAY BILL SO EXTREME?
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. * ghana lgbt *
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.
GHANA LGBT: WHY HIGH PROFILE GHANAIAN PROFSORS, LAWYERS Y FIGHT AGAST ANTI-GAY BILL
“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.
“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.