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2016

Three final year students of the Opoku Ware Senior High School (SHS) in Kumasi of the Ashanti Region who were suspended indefinitely for allegedly practicing homosexuality in school have been recall to the school.

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19-02-2016

Three students of the Opoku Ware Senior High School in the Ashanti region who were suspended for allegedly indulging in homosexuality are protesting their suspension

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19-01-2016

The trending rising Ghanaian musician-Lord Paper whose use of nudity has made him the talk of Ghana may after all not be even having a thing for the many women he has been posing naked with in photos.

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19-09-2016

These are our rights': Ghana's LGBT community finally finds Solace

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11-02-2016

To the 'premature ejaculator' who will not step beyond the title of this article, this may sound quite weird and fallacious.

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23-10-2016

Queerness in Ghana

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20-10-2016

What leads a person to ruin the lives of other people for nothing but a paycheck?

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16-09-2016

Wecome!! Akwaaba!!” says the sign at Accra International Airport. In the photo, taken in 2010, the mixed message is framed by a traditional kente print.

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05-02-2016

2017

Once again, Ghana has been side-tracked into a needless debate about homosexuality after President Akufo-Addo's interview with Aljazeera. He was asked about gays and stated that he felt the time was not ripe for consideration of a legislation legalising homosexuality in Ghana.

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29-11-2017

Concern Youth Association marks International Youth Day by sharing how they build peace amid violence against the LGBT community in Ghana

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08-08-2017

Chief Superintendent Jones Blantari, Programme Coordinator of Ghana Police AIDS Control Programme has called for a review of the Constitution to make it more explicit on the prosecution of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Inter-sexual and Queer (LGBTIQ) offenders.

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03-05-2017

Homosexuality, otherwise known as same sex union, is not only an affront to human dignity, but a practice abhorred by the Church, other religious bodies, as well as the traditional and customary values of the Ghanaian society.

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10-12-2017

I know someone won’t read beyond this heading yet would come throwing tantrums.

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03-02-2017

Eric Gyamfi reflects on his activism, photography, and telling the stories of West Africa’s queer communities

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22-06-2017

To begin with, the purpose of this write-up is to put into proper and clearer perspective the responses of our President to questions on homosexuality that were posed to him in his interview with Jane Dutton of Aljazeera, and its far reaching implications on the Culture, Traditions, conscience, and the general well-being of Ghanaians.

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06-12-2017

A recent interview our President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo granted to Al Jazeera has generated controversy and confusion. As an astute politician, the President tried to be diplomatic by making two statements which pro and anti- homosexual proponents saw as contradictory.

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08-12-2017

The raging controversy on homosexuality, ignited by the President's ambivalent interview has removed the scales from my eyes and I'm beginning to have my Damascus experience, I think

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27-11-2017

Marriage in Holland

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13-12-2017

Photos of lesbians of African descent have caused an uproar on social media especially from conservative Ghanaians who believe the two women are from their country.

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14-12-2017

There are clear indications that the debate on homosexuality in Ghana is not going away quietly as some of us would have hoped.

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02-08-2017

2018

Under the pretext of safeguarding human rights all over the world a lot of immoralities has been introduced

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11-01-2018

Braimah Kamoko aka Bukom Banku, the self-proclaimed African Mayweather, recently gathered a bunch of aimless youth and paraded around town, declaring “war” on homosexuals.

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30-01-2018

Ghanaians who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) suffer widespread discrimination and abuse both in public and in family settings, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

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01-08-2018

Pressure is being funneled down the way of African countries and their leaders by the West to decriminalize homosexuality.

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28-05-2018

The church is full. 3,000 people–maybe more–are singing, dancing, and praying. At the altar, standing with his hands behind his back, is the pastor Daniel “Angel” Obinim.

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04-04-2018

The Ghanaian government should work to address the stigma that subjects people to violence in their own homes, the place where they should feel safes

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08-01-2018

Ghanaian gospel musician, Joe Mettle has indicated that he wouldn’t cut ties with a gay friend if he had one.

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16-02-2018

In a joint statement made by the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) and the Humanist Association of Ghana (HAG), humanists have called on Ghana to protect the human rights of all its people, regardless of their individual belief, sexual orientation or gender identity

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20-03-2018

Women in Ghana are more likely than men to experience violence at the hands of their families because of their sexuality, with many forced many into marriage or sex work, researchers have found

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10-01-2018

Should homosexuality be legalized by government (as they claim it is bound to happen), handsome and scantily dressed men could be raped just as has been the reason why girls and women continue to be raped from time immemorial

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11-01-2018

Sadat I.* fled Ghana in 2015 after a homophobic vigilante group threatened him, beat his uncle and burned his house down – all because of his sexuality.

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18-07-2018

“We can’t ever go home again,” said one of the three young women, barely in their 20s, as they told their story and struggled to fight back their tears.

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18-01-2018

A UN expert on Friday urged Ghana’s government to decriminalize adult consensual same-sex conduct to protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) peopl

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26-06-2018

Recognizing the rights of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons is a thorny issue in most African countries.

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30-07-2018

2019

ReportOUT were asked by a leading LGBTQ+ organisation in Ghana to publish some of the lived experiences of people living in the nation state today

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03-11-2019

Ghanaian actor Prince David Osei and his medieval brain have been taking a bashing on social media after he viciously attacked homos*xuals for no discernible reason whatsoever

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26-04-2019

This is the chapter that always gives us the creeps when we read a travel guide, and we’re quite sure that some readers will question the sanity of travelling to Ghana by the time they finish this one

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23-03-2019

To whom all of your people were so polite and friendly? The guys who had such a wonderful time visiting your villages, exploring your nature, and meeting your citizens

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28-08-2019

Emelia, a woman in her thirties living in Kumasi, Ghana, will never forget the day her father found out she was a lesbian. He beat her for three hours – with his fists, and a belt, and then with a broken beer bottle.

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31-10-2019

This year, I accomplished a feat that I never thought I would: I went undercover to investigate a group that hates me

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11-12-2019

Actress Yvonne Nelson replying a fan who said that Efia Odo is her lesbian partner put some sense into the head of this fan.

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16-04-2019

Ghana, like many other countries in Africa, has not yet entirely accepted the LGBT community into our society.

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16-03-2019

The Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC) to address and state our official position on the raging debate and controversy on the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), which the government through the Ministry of Education intends or intended to introduce into the Basic Schools curriculum come the next academic year.

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​04-10-2019

The Gay and homosexual community in Accra, Ghana, last week attended the annual gay/drag night party at the 10pounds pub.

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30-05-2019

Fast-rising Burniton signee, Okailey Verse, popularly known as ‘OV’, has finally reacted to critics of her ‘manly’ style of dressing.

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15-10-2019

Ghanaian gay activist simply called Jay , says the hypocrisy about homosexuality in Ghana is alarming as the people who condemn it openly are into it secretly.

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09-01-2019

Veteran highlife musician Rex Omar has vehemently opposed the introduction of CSE into our Ghanaian academic curriculum.

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11-10-2019

A man from Ghana has made a shocking revelation saying Prophet T.B. Joshua has healed him of homosexuality.

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14-10-2019

2020

Accra is one of those places where you can’t swing a rosary without it hitting a pop-up, prosperity-promising Pentecostal place of prayer. It is, like the rest of Ghana, a deeply religious place

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17-03-2020

Did the decriminalization of libel through the repeal of the criminal libel law mean that libel was made legal in Ghana?

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26-09-2020

Eazzy has left fans puzzled with a shocking confession about her relationship life.

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30-04-2020

Ghanaian top model, Alex Kofi Donkor has been one of the most versatile voices when it comes to gay right issues in Ghana in particular and Africa as a whole

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03-08-2020

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