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2006

The Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rt. Rev. Dr. Frimpong Manson, at a news conference held at the church's headquarters on the Golden Jubilee Crusade, has condemned the shameful act of homosexuality and same sex marriages

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08-09-2006

2007

A British photographer on vacation in Ghana has been charged with sodomy after being found with photos showing him having sex with another man, police officials said Tuesday. Sixty-three-year old John Ross Macleod was arrested Saturday at Ghana's airport after police who were searching him for drugs turned up a compact disc with pictures of Macleod having sex with another man, said Charles Darkwa, a police spokesman. Homosexual acts and sodomy have long been illegal in the West African country, though prosecution is not common.

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07-11-2007

2008

Homosexual prostitutes who are said to be operating undercover have now hit the streets of Accra openly soliciting for men

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28-06-2008

2011

Responding to Blakk Rasta’s homophobic comments on GhanaMusic.com, Clare Bracey, Amnesty International UK’s LGBT campaign manager, said: “To describe homosexuality as a ‘disorder’ is simply abhorrent – and Blakk Rasta’s comments should be condemned vigorously from all quarters

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​12-01-2011

Though LGBT people are already deemed criminals in the West African nation of Ghana, it seems that persecution of gays and lesbians is only slated to get worse, as police services in the western portion of the nation have been ordered to round up all suspected homosexuals

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​21-07-2011

Rt. Rev. Prof. Sarfo-Kantanka explained that homosexuality and lesbianism were grievous sins before God and a human rights abuse

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​05-08-2011

The Chief Psychiatrist of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital (APH), Dr Akwasi Osei, has stated that homosexuality is a psychiatric disorder

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​26-07-2011

Reggae musician and Hitz FM DJ Blakk Rasta, has said he holds no grudges against gays as a ‘people’ but still affirms his stance that homosexuals need to be purified by what he terms Jah Jah fire since it is a mental/genetic disorder.

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​26-01-2011

The Whites have always within their innermost heart and mindset seen, and maintained that once Blacks are born slaves,

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​09-12-2011

Ghana’s young Rotaract Club of Adentan were bold enough to invite human rights campaigner and lawyer, Nana Oye Lithur, to talk about lesbian and gay rights at their meeting

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​24-08-2011

Ghana’s Blakk Rasta has said that, in his opinion, being gay is unnatural and a mental or genetic disorder.

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​12-01-2011

Centuries of oppression has not changed us one little bit. We are the same people dragged in shackles and manacles into rat-infested stinky

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​19-06-2011

In the case of Mr. Atta-Panyin, we do not only learn that, in fact, he had sodomized at least six male students at Adisadel College, Cape Coast

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30-05-2011

Prof Emanuel Martey, has stated that Ghana should stand firm on its decision not to batter homosexuality with foreign aid.

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Western Region Minister, Paul Evans Aidoo's comment that all homosexuals in Ghana

should be arrested 

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22-07-2011

The CPP's presidential hopeful, Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom has waded into the controversial UK gay aid cut threat saying it is a blessing in disguise to Ghana

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​04-11-2011

2012

Homosexuality, in recent past, has engaged the attention of the public and is, undoubtedly, one of the prime heated debates in the world, Africa and indeed Ghana

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27-01-2012

Ghana Supreme Court to rule on gay rights

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21-07-2012

2013

Journalists in Ghana are in an uproar over accounts of homosexuality at local secondary schools.

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17-04-2013

Ghanaian musician Wanlov the Kubolor did something pretty remarkable on Valentine's Day, something many musicians wouldn't do even here in the relatively more gay-friendly States.

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​16-02-2013

Early on, she emphatically stated that although she will not promote homosexuality, she will continue to defend human rights of everyone

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01-02-2013

Ghanaian Anglican Bishop slams Desmond Tutu over gay comment

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30-06-2013

2014

A group of Muslim youth in Nima, Accra who killed a man they accused of being gay, are now trying to track down his partner

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28-05-2014

Although homosexuality is illegal in Ghana, one of the countrys renowned music producers and CEO of Pidgin Music, Panji Anoff has publicly declared he is gay

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31-07-2014

15? that was the age of first homosexual encounter of Lexis whom I interviewed three years ago.

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31-10-2014

A 65-year-old farmer, Yaw Aboah from Calbury, a suburb of Duayaw Nkwanta, has been arrested by the police for allegedly sodomising a nine-year-old pupil of Presby ?A? School in Duayaw Nkwanta

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28-01-2014

A former senior politician in Ghana says gay people are “sick” who need “psychotic” treatment and that “Africa must resist a new sodomy slave trade”.

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21-03-2014

2015

Pastor Jide Macauley continued his campaign today against an anti-LGBTI criminal in Ghana reportedly using social media to entrap and assault LGBTI people

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17-08-2015

There was heavy police presence at New Town, Abavana Down and Mamobi, all suburbs of Accra, yesterday following an attack on a man accused of engaging in homosexuality

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​12-02-2015

Dreaded traditional priest, Nana Kwaku Bonsam, has asked Ghana's President, John Mahama, to reassure Ghanaians his government would not hide

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01-07-2015

The Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Professor William Otto Ellis, has waded into the recent controversy surrounding same-sex marriage and urged Ghanaians not to create any platform for the discussion of “such abominable issues”

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01-08-2015

Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, has described same sex marriage as 'unbiblical', unChristian and unAfrican

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13-07-2015

Police in Ghana have arrested a man whom LGBTI activists labeled as an anti-LGBTI criminal using social media to entrap and assault LGBTI people.

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18-09-2015

Ghana Likely To Legalize Homosexuality

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31-07-2015

After a brutal anti-gay attack on Ghanaian music promoter Kinto, celebrities speak up for LGBT equality

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24-02-2015

The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has asked policy makers to formulate policies to end human rights abuses against gays, commercial sex workers and other vulnerable groups in society

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07-10-2015

We live in a very challenging time of human history, the period the Bible refers to as the "end time". This period is characterised by the appearances of multiplicity of humanistic philosophies.

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27-07-2015

Most Rev. Palmer Buckle, said homosexuality is against humanity and therefore does not qualify to be classified as a human right but rather

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01-08-2015

The Christian Council of Ghana has charged President John Mahama to make a clear policy statement on the country's position on same sex

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13-07-2015

A thirty-eight year old man has been arrested by the police at Sowutuom in Accra for posing as a lady prostitute.

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​02-07-2015

My interview with top Ghanaian actress � Yvonne Nelson-was a revelation in so many ways. Of the leading Nollywood stars, Yvonne is among those I had not had a close relationship with

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​09-01-2015

Sometimes movie lovers find it hard differentiating between an actors private life and the role he/she has played

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05-01-2015

Should Ghana also learn from the United States and legalise gay marriage?

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10-07-2015

17 / MPs will legalise same-sex marriage for $1m each – Omari Wadie

MPs will legalise same-sex marriage for $1m each – Omari Wadie ... According to him, same-sex activists are powerful and influential persons who

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14-07-2015

The campaign which was under the auspices of the Cape Coast Area Head, Apostle David Tekper, witnessed a peaceful walk from Cape Coast Stadium to the Chapel Square where thousands of people from the various secondary and tertiary institutions joined holding their placards with words of advice on homosexuality

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29-10-2015

The gay and lesbian community in Ghana is demanding an end to what it calls the gross violation of the rights of its members

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11-12-2015

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