As Benson walked across the street towards his date Ghana's pal, Accra, he saw somethg was wrong - was not the man he had been msagg on the popular gay datg app Grdr.
Contents:
- WH BLACKMAIL LIST, GAY MEN GHANA FIGHT NMEN POSG AS LOVERS
- GAY LIFE GHANA--IN DANGER AND IN THE CLOSET
- HOW 2 GAY MEN LIVE A COUNTRY WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL
- GAY FOR PAY
WH BLACKMAIL LIST, GAY MEN GHANA FIGHT NMEN POSG AS LOVERS
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Remember a Holiday Hoeboy is your gay iendly tour gui who looks after your safety and welfare at all tim. ACCRA (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - As Benson walked across the street towards his date Ghana’s pal, Accra, he saw somethg was wrong - was not the man he had been msagg on the popular gay datg app Grdr. ”Benson’s oral is creasgly mon untri where homosexualy is illegal.
While the ter has ma easier for LGBT+ muni to fd and build relatnships onle, has also exposed them to new Egypt, Moroc and Nigeria, gay men are often blackmailed and outed by fake dat who trick them to sharg timate photos which they post onle. The police also e social media to lure them to false meetgs and make is one of more than 30 Ain untri that outlaw same-sex relatns, acrdg to the LGBT+ rights group prosecutns are rare, homophobia is wispread and those who are outed often have their liv upend as they are ostracized by iends and fay and n lose their Kofi Donkor, head of lol activist group LGBT+ Rights Ghana, cid to fight back last year on Twter and Facebook wh the Ghana Gay Blackmail List, which expos “notor persons who steal, abe & blackmail gay men” group, which has 1, 800 followers, has named and shamed about two dozen men by publishg their photos along wh the apps they e, the plac they equent and a warng: “Share wily, be alert and don’t be the next victim”.
”BLACKMAILA lk on the Ghana Gay Blackmail List page allows members of the public to report s, which are vtigated wh closed gay and bisexual social media groups for addnal crowdsourced ttimoni before publitn, Donkor said. HOMOPHOBIAAs men who have sex wh men n face up to three years jail Ghana, they are ually too sred to report the robberi to the police as this uld lead to them beg outed, which rri a far greater personal st, said Donkor.
GAY LIFE GHANA--IN DANGER AND IN THE CLOSET
Once you are outed, that also means that your source of livelihood is also threatened, ” he enurag gay men who have been robbed and blackmailed to report the cints to the police, tellg them “meetg a new iend is not a crime”. There is a certa level of homophobia.
He would like gay datg apps to provi legal support to men who fall victim to crimals when g their apps. 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. 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.
HOW 2 GAY MEN LIVE A COUNTRY WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL
So what is gay life like Ghana? “There are no gay clubs Ghana, as there are South Ai. Gay life is mostly private and most gay people meet at hoe parti anised by iends all around the untry.
They are both straight clubs but are equented by both gays and heterosexuals.
Most of the gays that equent the night spots are not rtraed eher drs or behavur and fely seem to be out of the closet, at least whilst they are at the venu. “Gay tourists to Ghana should beware of heterosexual young men posg as gay men.
GAY FOR PAY
They equent the and var nightspots offerg their “servic” to the unspectg tourist and then end up blackmailg the tourist, takg advantage of the illegal stat of the beg gay Ghana. On the topic of lbian relatnships, Cam was told that they are more acceptable to the heterosexual muny than are gay relatnships between two men, but no reason was given for this. “One of the young gay men, 27 years of age, that I beme good iends wh, has been married for a jt over a month, and is ready to “father” his first child.