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Added on: 06/02/2021

LGBTQ life in Africa: Arrests, arrests, arrests, arrests

05/31/2021

The staggering pace of arrests of LGBTQ citizens continued today, as Uganda Police raided an LGBTQ shelter and detained 44 members of the LGBTQ community, repeating a…

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Added on: 05/27/2021

Major donors urge Ghana to respect LGBT+ rights amid crackdown

05/25/2021

Major foreign aid donors called on Ghana on Tuesday to respect LGBT+ rights following a crackdown including arrests of people from sexual minorities and an increase in…

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Added on: 05/26/2021

Gay activists in Ghana demand release of 21 people arrested at LGBTQI conference

05/25/2021

Ghana’s LGBTQ community has called for the release of 21 people, who were arrested by security forces last week while attending a conference in the southeastern city…

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Added on: 05/23/2021

Ghana LGBT: Police explain why dem arrest 21 suspected gay, Lesbians, Transgender & odas

5/22/21

Police say dem arrest these pipo for unlawful Assembly as dem dey promote LGBTQI activities during one conference for di Nurses and midwives Hotel, for di South-eastern…

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Added on: 05/08/2021

In hiding, Ghana’s queer activists keep up the fight

5/6/21

More than two months after fleeing “unprecedented” threats of violence, members of the queer rights organisation LGBT+ Rights Ghana are still in hiding. “It is very challenging….

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Added on: 04/20/2021

We cannot turn this country into a satanic one – Chieftaincy Minister rallies support from Chief Imam

04/19/2021

The Chieftaincy and Religious Minister, Ebenezer Kojo Kum has asked for support from leaders of the Muslim community as measures are being put in place to prevent…

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Added on: 04/03/2021

‘Lesbian wedding’ arrestees freed; Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ furor continues

4/1/21

Ghana police have freed the people they arrested last weekend at a party that police believed was a “lesbian wedding”. Meanwhile, homophobic campaigns against Ghana’s LGBTQ citizens…

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Added on: 03/31/2021

GHANA POLICE ARRESTS 22 LGBT+ IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUALS

03/30/2021

LGBT Rights Ghana, an organization that recently sparked a storm after opening a shelter and safe space for gender and sexual minorities in the West African nation…

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Added on: 03/24/2021

Ghanaian MPs form ‘Believers Against LGBT+’ alliance ahead of draconian bill attacking queer rights

03/23/2021

Lawmakers in Ghana have formed a “Believers Against LGBTQI+” alliance to push a brutally anti-LGBT+ bill through parliament, activists on the ground have said. The cross-party group…

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Added on: 03/09/2021

Ghana’s emerging LGBT movement battles with hostility

03/09/2021

When activists in Ghana opened a support centre for the local gay community, they expected some pushback in a religiously conservative West African country where homosexuality is…

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Added on: 03/08/2021

The fallen hope of LGBTQ+ in Ghana

03/07/2021

Ghana has mixed record on its treatment of Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons. It’s Criminalizes ”unnatural carnal knowledge” in section 104 (1) (b) of its…

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Added on: 03/03/2021

Actor Idris Elba, Naomi Campbell call for Ghana to protect LGBT+ community

03/01/2021

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Actor Idris Elba and model Naomi Campbell have joined 65 other British celebrities, designers and politicians in calling for Ghana’s president to…

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Added on: 03/01/2021

LGBTQI office in Ghana: President Nana Akufo-Addo say he no go legalize same-sex marriage

02/28/2021

“For same-sex marriage to dey legal for Ghana, e no go happun for my time as president” Akufo-Addo tok dis during di installation of di Second Archbishop…

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Added on: 02/24/2021

Anti-gay uproar after Ghana opens its first LGBT+ community centre

02/23/2021

By Nita Bhalla NAIROBI, Feb 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Anti-gay outcry has forced Ghana’s first LGBT+ community centre to temporarily close to protect its staff and…

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Added on: 02/24/2021

Legalize prostitution instead of LGBT—Olumanba

02/23/2021

Young Political Activist Emmanuel Abankwah Kesse otherwise known as Olumanba has urged the government to legalize prostitution instead of gay and lesbianism. According to him, prostitutes also…

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Added on: 02/23/2021

New LGBT+ center triggers holy war of words in Ghana

02/22/2021

Representatives of the European Union expressed their support for the new LGBTQ+ facilities, officially opened Jan. 31, which serve as the new headquarters for the advocacy group…

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Added on: 02/17/2021

Ghana: LGBT+ safe house opens; anti-gay crusader in a rage

02/16/2021

After LGBT+ Rights Ghana held a fundraiser at the new site, anti-gay campaigner Moses Foh-Amoaning called for the police to shut it down, arrest the group’s leaders…

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Added on: 02/13/2021

Ghana Parliament must decide whether they want to decriminalise LGBT laws

02/12/2021

The Minister-designate for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, says Ghana’s Parliament must make up its mind on whether it wants to decriminalise LGBT laws in the country….

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Added on: 02/12/2021

LGBT Rights Ghana Responds To Foh-Amoaning’s Calls For Shutdown Of Its New Office In Ghana

02/11/2021

The LGBT+ Rights Ghana has responded to calls by the Executive Secretary of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values, Moses Foh-Amoaning, on…

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Added on: 12/26/2020

My intersex husband

12/26/2020

Aku finally nailed it. She got married to the love of her life, a 40-year-old man, after two years of courtship without intimacy. As tradition will have…

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Added on: 11/04/2020

Alex Kofi Donkor – LGBT+ Rights Ghana

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

What is it like in terms of self-expression in Ghana? How does that affect LGBT people? There are quite a number of inequalities here, and it streams…

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Added on: 09/28/2020

Ex-Minister takes on alleged lesbian soldier who married partner in uniform

09/27/2020

Rachel Appoh, a deputy minister of Gender and Children Protection has added her voice to calls for the hierarchy of the Ghana Armed Forces to crack the…

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Added on: 08/29/2020

Boosting LGBTIQ rights in West Africa, one grant at a time

08/28/2020

The activist-led Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO) aims to strengthen West African movements for gender diversity and sexual rights. To accomplish that, it takes a flexible…

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Added on: 04/03/2020

Asylum seeker beaten, doused in petrol and threatened with beheading by his own dad finally told he deserves refuge

04/02/2020

A gay asylum seeker from Ghana who was beaten, doused in petrol and threatened with beheading by a homophobic mob led by his own dad has been…

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Added on: 03/13/2020

Ghana bans LGBT+ conference after Christian groups protest

03/12/2020

Ghana’s government has said it will not allow a major gathering of LGBT+ activists to go ahead after an outcry from conservative Christian groups in the country….

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Added on: 02/28/2020

Top Imam vows to stop ‘demonic’ LGBT conference from coming to Ghana

02/27/2020

The Pan Africa ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) is set to hold its 2020 annual conference in Accra, Ghana, in July. It will…

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Added on: 12/28/2019

Why Homosexuality Is Not Un-African

12/27/2019

Let’s finally settle it. Homosexuality is just as African as heterosexuality. Yesterday, we shared with you news of J Hus and his online blunder. The rapper tweeted…

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Added on: 12/14/2019

Gabon bans gay sex as global pace of reform falters

12/13/2019

Gabon has passed a law against gay sex, becoming the 70th country to ban the practice, an official confirmed, as the global pace of reform falters. The…

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Added on: 12/12/2019

‘God Has A New Africa’: Undercover in a US-led anti-LGBT ‘hate movement’

12/11/2019

This year, I accomplished a feat that I never thought I would: I went undercover to investigate a group that hates me. Not long after I took…

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Added on: 11/29/2019

Gay sex is banned – so Ghanaians dance against homophobia

11/28/2019

Gay sex may be illegal in Ghana – dancing isn’t. So rappers and singers are using music videos to embrace LGBT+ life and fight homophobia in this…