Ghana has become the new skunk of the world! The Parliament of Ghana has passed new anti-LGBTQ law today, sending Ghana’s LGBTQI+ community into hiding, panic and flight. The Promotion of Proper Human Sexuality and Family Values Bill is Ghana’s equivalent to Uganda’s Kill the Gays Bill, and may actually be worse for some of its terms than Uganda’s recently passed law, even though it does not include life imprison or the death penalty. Worse in the sense of the identity clause.
This is because the Ghanaian law says that if a person simply identifies or quote “holds out” as being LGBTQ – or an ally, they will be subject to lengthy jail terms.
That means someone like me, Melanie Nathan, an open lesbian, or more famously Wanda Sykes, comedian, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, Elliot Paige, openly trans man, Chaz Bono, or U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, as well as United States Senator Tammy Baldwin, to name but a few are all criminals subject to prison terms in Ghana from the moment the law takes effect.
Source: GHANA PASSES A LAW – IF YOU LGBTQ – GO TO JAIL – AND BECOMES NEW SKUNK OF THE WORLD – O-blog-dee-o-blog-da

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