Four men were beaten wh sticks and banished for beg gay Ghana, pturg the risg tensns – and fears – over an anti-LGBT bill.
Contents:
- WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FOUR GAY GUYS FROM TEL AVIV TOOK A VATN TO DUBAI
- FOUR GAY MEN BEATEN, BANISHED AND ARRTED GHANA FOR ‘JT TRYG TO LIVE’
- MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
- GAY MOSW · CY GUI
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FOUR GAY GUYS FROM TEL AVIV TOOK A VATN TO DUBAI
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FOUR GAY MEN BEATEN, BANISHED AND ARRTED GHANA FOR ‘JT TRYG TO LIVE’
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MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
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Four men were btally beaten wh sticks and banished for beg gay Tamale, Ghana, pturg the risg tensns – and fears – over an anti-LGBT+ bill. Acrdg to Pulse, a Ghanian news outlet, a gay uple the town attacked his ex-partner wh a machete. The pair were later terrogated, where the lol thori me to realise the men were gay, the outlet claimed, and named two other gay men volved the scuffle.
The screenshots below were ptured om one of the vios and shows the alleged gay men beg btally asslted wh a stick (see red arrow).
GAY MOSW · CY GUI
In his lg, Mohammed scribed homosexualy as “agast the land and Islam”, addg that “if [Choggu] was an Islamic state, they would have stoned them to ath”.
‘For jt tryg to live, the gay men were beaten, ’ says Ghana activist group. “For jt tryg to live, exist and thrive, the four gay men were beaten and fed by the people and Chief of Chogu, before turng them over to the Tamale police, and now the police have already sent them to urt, ” Rightify Ghana said a statement. For Rightify Ghana, such hostily agast queer people has only worsened recent months as a backbgly anti-LGBT+ bill is beg rammed through parliament by a bloc of homophobic lawmakers and backed by relig lears.
“The anti-LGBTQ bill, even though not passed, has embolned homophob to mobilise agast LGBTQ Ghanaians, ” add.