Raphaela
14 Aug 2024
Today we review the bold-faced lies by homophobes in this unfortunate country. Some of them will change their stances years later, some of them will lie and make up stories to cover their hate when they need to travel or apply for some international job. The Digital Archive never forgets, though.
Take one look at the Digital Archive Project website and you’ll see bigotry all the way from the 1960s, but today we’ll start from 2010. The Daily Graphic in this year published an article by Nurudeen Salifu titled “Gays and rights: Health, not morality”.
I’m trying my best to take it easy on the writer, and perhaps consider the year the writing was published, but honestly the whole piece reads like a Social Studies essay by someone in Class 6. Nurudeen claims that the issue of “gays” goes beyond rights, and is a matter of health. It baffles me that people who don’t think queer people deserve human rights can pretend to care about queer people’s health. Make it make sense.