GHANA UPDATE: NEW LAWS AND ESCALATING VIOLENCE

May 27, 2025. Ghana’s Parliament Ready for First Reading of New Anti-LGBTQI+ Bill By Melanie Nathan, May 28, 2025 The Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin, announced yesterday during his opening speech at the 1st Sitting of the 2nd Meeting of the 1st Session of the 9th Parliament of the 4th Republic of … More GHANA UPDATE: NEW LAWS AND ESCALATING VIOLENCE

Ghana’s LGBTQI+ Political Pawns Flee Country in Wake of Violence

By Melanie Nathan, December 02, 2023 On December 07, 2024, Ghana will elect a new President. On December 18, the Ghanaian Supreme Court will deliver its ruling on a controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill that passed Parliament in February, 2024. All the while LGBTQI+ Ghanaians, typical to country conditions all across Africa, are the scapegoats for dueling … More Ghana’s LGBTQI+ Political Pawns Flee Country in Wake of Violence

Ghana August 2024 Updates on The Anti-LGBT Laws in Ghana

By Melanie Nathan, August 24, 2024. In February of 2024 Ghana passed the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Act. Since the the new law has been subjected to several laws suits. There has also been a lawsuit against the earlier anti-Homosexuality Penal Code that criminalizes consensual same sex acts. This … More Ghana August 2024 Updates on The Anti-LGBT Laws in Ghana

COURAGE BY MAN MARCHING THE STREETS OF GHANA AGAINST ANTI LGBT LAW

By Melanie Nathan, April 18, 2024 A Ghanaian man marched in the streets of Ghana, flanked by a police officer, in a powerful courageous one-man protest against one of the harshest anti-LGBTQI laws on the planet, let alone the African continent. The man, reportedly Mr. Texas Kadir Moro took a stand against the new legislation … More COURAGE BY MAN MARCHING THE STREETS OF GHANA AGAINST ANTI LGBT LAW

Politicians Claim Methodist and Presbyterians Churches in Ghana are Conducting Conversion Therapies for LGBTI People

By Melanie Nathan, February 09, 2024, In the midst of Ghana’s Parliament concluding the consideration phase of the new Anti-Homosexuality Bill, its promoter, MP Sam George revealed that the Presbyterian and Methodist churches of Ghana are backing Moses Foh-Amoaning in conducting conversion practices aimed at “helping” individuals who “have participated in LGBTQ activities to undergo … More Politicians Claim Methodist and Presbyterians Churches in Ghana are Conducting Conversion Therapies for LGBTI People

Ghana Travel Warning – Canada Warns LGBTIQ+ travelers and Allies

By Melanie Nathan, January 31, 2024 Canada, similarly to the US government travel advisory of last year, has now issued an updated travel advisory for LGBTQI+ travelers, including allies, who intend to travel to Ghana, warning about increased violence and discrimination, at the time that Ghana’s Parliament is in the amendment phase of a harsh … More Ghana Travel Warning – Canada Warns LGBTIQ+ travelers and Allies

Why Sacramento State LGBTQI Community Should Welcome the President of Ghana

Our responsibility as American LGBTQI on the global front is to first and foremost follow the lead and direction of the Ghanaian gay community … In writing this response to “EDITORIAL: Sac State shouldn’t break bread with repressive leaders – Persecution of LGBTQ, …….”,  and the Article of Claire Morgan, Managing editor, published in the online Sacramento State student … More Why Sacramento State LGBTQI Community Should Welcome the President of Ghana