A recent march by over a thoand Ghanian Mlims agast “the growg activi of gays and lbians” this Wt-Ain untry
Contents:
- EXPLAER: WHAT MAK GHANA’S ANTI-GAY BILL SO EXTREME?
- MORE PHOTOS AND VIO OF AI’S BIGGT GAY PARTY HELD IN ACCRA OVER THE WEEKEND
- LBIANS AND GAYS PARTY HARD ACCRA
- GAY LIFE GHANA--IN DANGER AND IN THE CLOSET
- 30 LGBTI PERSONS RELEASED ON BAIL, AFTER HOMOPHOBIC MEN WHO STORMED THEIR PARTY TO BEAT AND ROB THEM TOLD POLICE ’S A ‘GAY PARTY’
- GHANA'S SECRET GAY MUNY
EXPLAER: WHAT MAK GHANA’S ANTI-GAY BILL SO EXTREME?
has tercepted a vio rerdg of spected gays and lbians who recently anized a massive weekend party exclively for persons of their ‘kd’. * gay party in ghana *
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.
MORE PHOTOS AND VIO OF AI’S BIGGT GAY PARTY HELD IN ACCRA OVER THE WEEKEND
* gay party in ghana *
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.
LBIANS AND GAYS PARTY HARD ACCRA
Draft bill would crimalise intifyg as gay and uld see tersex people pelled to unrgo surgery * gay party in ghana *
“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.
GAY LIFE GHANA--IN DANGER AND IN THE CLOSET
When Patrick Williams told his mother he was gay, she packed his bags and threw him out of the hoe, disowng her son for what she saw as an evil act. * gay party in ghana *
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. 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.
30 LGBTI PERSONS RELEASED ON BAIL, AFTER HOMOPHOBIC MEN WHO STORMED THEIR PARTY TO BEAT AND ROB THEM TOLD POLICE ’S A ‘GAY PARTY’
(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.
GHANA'S SECRET GAY MUNY
Both are active Ai and other parts of the world fightg agast abortn rights and gay rights.
READ ALSO: Gays In Ai Held Party In Accra Over The Weekend. play vioSome gays ptured on mera at the event.