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Contents:

• EXPLAER: WHAT MAK GHANA’S ANTI-GAY BILL SO EXTREME?
• GAY ACTIVISTS GHANA MAND RELEASE OF 21 PEOPLE ARRTED AT LGBTQI NFERENCE
• LGBTQ OFFICE GHANA LATT: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER GROUP MOBILIZE $38,000 GOFUNDME FOR NEW OFFICE SPACE AFTA POLICE RAID
• GHANA: ANTI-GAY BILL PROPOSG 10-YEAR PRISON SENTENC SPARKS OUTRAGE
• IDRIS ELBA AND NAOMI CAMPBELL SIGN LETTER BACKG GAY RIGHTS GHANA
• GAY DATG MOSW
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• REPORT: SWATCH GROUP SU COUNTRY THAT ALLEGEDLY SEIZED ITS GAY PRI WATCH

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. 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.

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

“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.

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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. 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.

GHANA: ANTI-GAY BILL PROPOSG 10-YEAR PRISON SENTENC SPARKS OUTRAGE

(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.

Donkor said the nference which the police had tagged an “unlawful assembly” was a paralegal trag for gay activists as discrimatn agast sexual mori remas rife Ghana. Intolerance and vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people have ntued to thrive among Ghana’s populatn, acrdg to Human Rights Watch.

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Donkor told CNN that homophobia manifts var forms Ghana. Police spokman, Dogbatse, says he is unwillg to ment on homophobia Ghana. The gay activist hop that the #ReleaseThe21 mpaign would expand the public nversatn around tolerance and rpect for gay rights Ghana.

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Police erroneoly jtified the arrts on the grounds that the trag ssn was “promotg homosexualy” and that the gatherg was an “unlawful assembly.

The urt said that all Ghanaians, cludg lbians and homosexuals, are entled to eely exprs their views, to assemble and monstrate support of those views and to propagate those views. A., a 35-year-old gay man om Hohoe, a municipaly the Volta regn, said that beg taed left him feelg huiated, though the vis of a sympathetic pastor migated the suatn.

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Publicly nmn all threats and acts of vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, cludg vlence by fay members.

Adopt measur and take steps to raise public awarens of the harm of the homophobia that prevails the untry, and the need to bat . In particular hold public officials who make homophobic statements acuntable.

Introduce legislative and policy measur to prevent, punish, and provi effective remedi for vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people on the basis of their real or imputed sexual orientatn and genr inty and ensure their nstutnal rights to equaly and non-discrimatn. Take necsary steps to protect lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people agast all forms of discrimatn, timidatn, and vlence, and amend sectn 104 of the Crimal Offenc Act, 1960, to ensure that sexual relatns between nsentg adults of the same sex are not nsired a mismeanour or punishable by law. Provi more fancial and technil support to civil society anizatns providg servic to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who have suffered vlence, cludg domtic vlence, and discrimatn on the basis of their sexual orientatn and genr inty.

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Gay sex is a crimal offence the Wt Ain untry and members of the LGBTQ muny face wispread discrimatn. There is no legislatn Ghana explicly prohibg homosexualy, but gay sex is crimalised, wh offenrs potentially facg up to 25 years prison. 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.