Ghana: Will violence against the LGBTQ community increase with the new anti-LBGTQ law? | DW News

Ghana's new anti-LBGTQ legislation has drawn international condemnation, with the United Nations calling it "profoundly disturbing".
Under the new law the promotion of LGBTQ rights will be punished with up to five years in prison. Same-sex relations are already illegal in Ghana – activists have described the new law as another setback for human rights.

Someone who knows about the difficulties of life in Ghana for queer people is musician and activist Maxine Angel Opoku – also known as Angel Maxine. She is Ghana's first openly transgender musician, and she sings about LGBTQ rights. We talk to her in our studio.

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[josephjames]

Germany deported alot of Ghanaian back to their country but you don't see that on their news

[FAMILYGUY-S]

United Nations can’t tell us what’s we want in Africa

[ZariaUnfiltered]

see ein gyimie s3 she hasn't slept🤣🤣

[ampomahkwame]

Ghana is our country We choose how to govern our country. The west can't force us how to live our lives

[AkwasiMens_]

Our Country, Our Rules. We are proud of this Law.

[ahiakeisaac]

Passing this law in Parliament it absolutely 100% thanks lawmakers.

[generalamin]

WE THE PEOPLE OF GHANA ARE VERY HAPPY WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE BILL AND NO ONE CAN STOP US TO IMPLEMENT THE LAW. IF WE ARE GOING TO EAT STONE SO BE IT. WE DONT CARE WHAT UN SAID. THEY SHOULD KEEP THEIR UN AND WILL GIVE OUR COUNTRY GHANA.

[kwasikyeremeh]

Ghana has their tradition and culture, they can't copy from the west.

[jamesheuston]

I think you should grant them asylum in Germany.. and 80% of the population will seek ..

[thedanbala]

I'm Ghanaian and I love music, but I have never heard that song until now.

[JoeyNewman-iz]

As a Ghanaian I can say for a fact that Ghanaians are not homophobic. What we are is a very conservative and traditional society. This means, we are very anti-public displays of affection on either side of the spectrum.

As such being gay in Ghana is not dangerous in any way shape or form what we are big on as a society is that you limit these activities to your bedrooms.

In Ghana you will not find heterosexual couples kissing in public or gay couples doing same. So I would like to disabuse this western notion that the bill or the law been passed serves as a means of criminalizing or making the lives of gay people dangerous in our shared communities

The impact of this bill as we envision for ourselves as Ghanaians is that we would like to uphold the standards of our communities in ways that is consistent with our traditional values, systems and beliefs.

[Vladishit_Putler]

We in the West are to blame for this!
If our left wing media and politicians didn't campaign so hard to export the idea that "a man wearing lipstick is a woman", then other countries would not have felt the pressing need to stop this madness and prevent it to infect their culture.

[issahawal]

Long live Ghana 🇬🇭..Great job. The war in Palestine had expose the west and the United Nations. In fact the west made the United Nations usless and have no power on any ground..Therefore till the United Nation can stop the genocidal killings in Palestine by the Israelis, then United Nations have no say, to tell Ghana what to do..We as Ghanaians stand the right to sign a bill that is right for our generation..Ghana pass that bill

[ericedudzi]

United Nations should be concerned about the lives of the Palestinians. They should stop the killings of the Palestinians thats what we want, not interference in our maters in Ghana. I think the US or whatever country that doest like this law should give Visa to all of the LGBTQ+ people...

[countrymankabochi]

In matters concerning morality, you can not decide for Africa.

[KasimAnafo-rewu]

First it was Give us our rights and now it's promotion, i support Ghana 100%

[akibocouple]

the jail sentence supposed to be life imprisonment

[NanaOhene-tw]

She or he is lying, no one in Ghana beat up any LGBTQ+, they just don’t want this in public simple why are people talking about this, is just a simple law, if you wanna do it let it be in your room but you can’t confuse a child or little kids

[anthonyvondee]

Why can’t you do same with the Arabs ? Why only Africa

[moshenefm]

Ghana is now a thinking country. Don't force people a culture they don't want