2021
LGBT rights activists traveled from West Africa to France earlier this month to join forces with French activists in opposition to the extreme anti-LGBT bill currently awaiting action in Ghana
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29-10-2021
First of all, the LGBTQ community is not legal in Ghana. Being gay or a lesbian is a criminal act in Ghana and once caught, one is liable to a jail term.
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26-09-2021
Religious organizations, politicians and the media have worked together to preach bigotry to everyday Ghanaians
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29-08-2021
Christian Foli Poem
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30-08-2021
An Inconvenient Truth: LGBT Rights are Human Rights in Ghana
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21-08-2021
On the 31st of January 2021, a popular On-Air-Personality with the name Oheneyere Gifty had her show (The StandPoint- Listen to the feminine side) discussed “my struggle with homosexuality”, inviting two other persons who claimed to be “ex and struggling” gay person and a former Lesbian.
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22-02-2021
Homophobic outcry has forced what is reported to be Ghana’s first LGBT+ community center to temporarily close to protect its staff and visitors three weeks after it opened.
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25-02-2021
A SILENT protest was held by LGBT members of the new General Synod on Tuesday, moments after the Archbishop of Canterbury attempted to draw a line under the row sparked by his conversations with the Anglican Church in Ghana regarding the proposed criminalisation of the LGBTQ+ community there
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16-11-2021
When Ghana's first LGBT community centre and safe space opened in January, Linda had no expectation it would last.
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11-03-2021
The Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference (GCBC) has expressed its total opposition to the increasing activities of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) in the country.
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22-02-2021
This is a follow-up to CIHA Co-Editor Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo’s post about the “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values” Bill, currently proposed by eight members of the Parliament
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03-11-2021
There has been raging debate about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTI) recently in Ghana following the setting up of an LGBTI office in Accra with support from the European Union
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23-02-2021
In a recent interview, Ghanaian singer Abochi, who rose to fame after his Bestie song, revealed that he has received several proposals from gay people who believe they can have a relationship with him
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05-07-2021
It has emerged that some religious leaders in Ghana; both male and female are practicing homosexuality despite their public condemnation of the act on the pulpits
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23-02-2021
Yvonne took to Twitter to comment on an epidemic of gay men snatching men from beautiful and well-endowed women.
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31-08-2021
Two transgender women appeared on the most recent LinkUp With Mona Gucci Show and alleged that there are celebrated men in the country who are after their services.
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23-03-2021
As Ghana’s government continues to push to fore laws to stifle the activities of gays in the country, Ghanaians gay citizens abroad are boldly wearing their status on their sleeves.
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06-09-2021
The majority of Christian churches in Ghana are backing a proposed law that, if passed, could send lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people to prison for five years and those who advocate for their rights for 10.
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26-10-2021
Last Sunday, an interdenominational group of Christian leaders – apostles, pastors, reverends, bishops – came together for a one-day national prayer rally in Accra. The focus and title of their prayers?
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24-03-2021
Sponsors of the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill have insisted that "sexual orientation is not a fundamental human right"
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01-12-2021
The LGBTRightsGhana centre – an essential meeting place for queer people – was recently raided by the police, leaving people isolated and in fear
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26-02-2021
Enough of the ignorance: LGBT+ rights are Ghanaian and human rights, not an attempt by Westerners to impose their values or culture.
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03-10-2021
The Global Network of Rainbow Catholics (GNRC), a network of more than forty organizations supporting LGBTIQ Catholics around the world
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03-03-2021
An international coalition of Catholic LGBTQ organizations has issued a statement calling on the Catholic hierarchy to “stand with the weak and the persecuted in Ghana,” in response to recent efforts in Ghana to further criminalize homosexuality
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26-11-2021
On February 22, a hate group called Journalists Against the LGBTQ+ was formed to not only publicly endorse homophobia
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01-03-2021
In February of this year, a newly-opened resource centre and safe space for LGBTQ+ people set up by LGBT+ Rights Ghana in Accra, Ghana’s capital city, was raided and shut down by the authorities.
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22-11-2021
An often-repeated argument in the ongoing resistance to gay rights advocacy in Ghana is that ‘gayness’ is alien to Ghanaian culture
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17-03-2021
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way, the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.” – Romans 1:26-27
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03-03-2021
Currently, Ghana’s parliament is debating an odious bill to further suppress its queer population and silence advocacy around LGBTQI rights and organizing
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22-11-2021
Despite attempts to clamp down their activities found in the shape of the new anti-LGBTQ+ that has been presented to parliament, this young man professedly gay has passed some intriguing comments about homosexual activities
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01-11-2021
Sensational Ghanaian gospel musician, Nana Yaw Boakye, known by stage name MOG Music has waded into the LGBTQI+ discussion in a recent interview
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09-03-2021
Ghana has long been known for its moderate governance, free speech and multicultural tolerance. But a proposed new law would radically and cruelly suppress the rights of LGBTQ+ people there.
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16-08-2021
More than two months after fleeing “unprecedented” threats of violence, members of the queer rights organisation LGBT+ Rights Ghana
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04-05-2021
Ghanaian hiplife artiste Lord Paper has disclosed that he has friends who are gay and that he is not in the position to choose someone’s sexual preference.
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01-11-2021
When the elections in 2020 got heated up, some of us reminded Ghanaians to remember so many things. One of the things I remember very well talking about was the coming to Ghana of active activism of gayism and lesbianism.
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11-10-2021
Kofi is a respectable, married man with two children. He also describes himself, however, as a “man having sex with a man” (MSM).
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12-12-2021
Advocates of a draconian anti-gay law are piling pressure on President Akufo-Addo and have sparked a rift with the Anglican church
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15-11-2021
Sefa, a talented Ghanaian female vocalist who goes by the stage name Sefa, has revealed how frequent love proposals flood her DMs.
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07-05-2021
Anti-LGBT red list
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25-02-2021
A community centre for a fledgling LGBT+ rights group in Ghana gutted by a brutal raid has now launched a defiant fundraiser to regroup and rebuild
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17-05-2021
A worshipper has taken his view of God's dislike for same-gender relationship to a new level.
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10-03-2021
Popular Ghanaian rapper Armstrong Affum popularly known by the stage name Dadie Opanka has shared a very interesting experience with a Gay.
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22-01-2021
LGBTQ demonstrators of African and Caribbean descent marked Indigenous Peoples' Day and National Coming Out Day at a rally in Oakland to bring attention to Ghana's proposed draconian anti-LGBTQ bill.
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14-10-202
Silent Majority Family Acceptance Audio
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24-03-2021
The streets of the business district of Accra were silent Saturday night, except for a faint dance beat that pierced the night air. The music shook the sliding glass door of Henri's, a small club no larger than a spacious walk-in closet, where gay men in Ghana come for a rare chance to meet others like themselves.
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01-03-2021
Some of the most popular arguments in defence of homosexual humanity have never appealed to me. It may be as a result of a self-imposed attitude of intellectual rigour, making my points but weary of competent criticisms.
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03-03-2021
It is with the outmost disquiet and concern that GNRC has to speak out against the suffering being inflicted on our LGBTIQ+ siblings in Ghana
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31-10-2021
Homosexuality has been dominating our airwaves for some time now especially for some weeks now.
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01-03-2021
It ended as theatrically as it began. On 24 February, a moral panic surrounding the opening of an LGBT+ centre in Accra, Ghana, ended with police officers dramatically storming the location without a warrant, breaking into the building, searching through every room (with cameras, of course), and locking the centre with a chain and padlock
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12-04-2021
Two Ghanaian gay men have been caught doing it in their car in the middle of a road as per this new viral video that has just surfaced on social media.
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16-10-2021
This adult Gay person (name retained) was discovered in the act in real life with a school kid in his room. The region young men beat the hell out of him he will always remember.
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03-09-2021
THE Archbishop of Canterbury has apologised for not speaking directly to the Ghanaian bishops before issuing his statement last month expressing “grave concern” about their reported support of a Bill that proposes to criminalise LGBTQ+ people.
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12-11-2021
The ‘Promotion Of Proper Human Sexual Rights And Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021’ Threatens Digital Rights
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17-03-2021
Kobi Rana, a filmmaker, claims that Nkonkonsa has been engaged in LGBT activities and that he has accomplices who have yet to come up and expose him.
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30-06-2021
Ghana: Amnesty International welcomes Ghana's support of recommendations to improve conditions and reduce overcrowding in prisons but regrets Ghana’s rejection of recommendations to decriminalize same-sex relations, and to combat the climate of homophobia and discrimination against LGBT persons.
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20-03-2021
Ghana has recorded cases of sodomy and violence against women and children in the last 5 years. On November 15, 2021, a 23-year-old barber from Atawase in the Kwahu West Municipality was convicted and sentenced to 114 years by a judge at the Mpraeso circuit court after pleading guilty to sodomising 12 pupils, a misdemeanour under article 104 (b) of the Ghanaian Criminal Code (Act 29), “unnatural carnal knowledge”.
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10-12-2021
Alex Kofi Donkor is leading the fight against LGBT
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18-12-2021
All through its print and electronic media, Ghana has been abuzz with impassioned and well-reasoned discussions touching on whether to permit the promotion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex and other related practices in the country or not.
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07-03-2021
A 21-year-old gay, Nana (pseudonym) has disclosed that he has slept with 20 men, five of which are pastors.
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18-01-2021
Anti – LGBT advocate, Bernice Nketia Hammond Ngoah popularly known as King Benny has shared her 10 years experience of being a lesbian and the negative impact associated with the act.
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04-05-2021
The issue of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, etc. (LGBTQI+) have
become topical in Ghana with some segments of society voicing various positions on
the issue. As a related bill is being developed in Parliament, global attention is centred
on Ghana, with positions from the international community while international news
networks cover the issue with keen interest.
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27-10-2021
As peoples opinion on the LGBT community keeps varying depending on where one stands, advocates and allies for the group are pressing very hard their demands for the LGBT community to be accepted and live freely in Ghana.
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24-02-2021
Ghanaian actress Lydia Forson has suggested that one’s privilege determines which rights they enjoy in Ghana, even if they are members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community.
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11-06-2021
Christian Service University College (CSUC) has on Friday, November 5, 2021 held its 3 rd
public lecture to stimulate engagement on theological, legal and scientific perspectives on the
raging debate concerning Ghana’s stance on LGBTQI+ rights. The lecture, chaired by the
Amakomhene, Nana Adu Mensah Asare, brought together experienced and astute
practitioners related to the three dimensions on the topic.
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10-11-2021
Pope Francis and top Ghanaian cardinal Peter Turkson are maintaining a diplomatic silence as Ghanaian bishops endorse government legislation to criminalize LGBTQ+ advocacy and a furious Anglican archbishop of Canterbury lobbies Church leaders to change course.
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27-10-2021
It started with homosexuality and new terms such as LGBT evolved and now we have LGBTQIA+, people who have identified themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer.
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06-03-2021