Gay leader boasts of huge numbers in Ghana

Despite the backlash on persons openly engaged in acts seen as improper family values in Ghana and a call for legislation to criminalize such activities, the LGBTQI+ community says, it has significant number of Ghanaians.

According to leaders of the group, despite the stigmatization against members of the LGBTQI+, it is an undeniable they contribute a lot to the growth of the country in various sectors.

Founder and Director of LGBT+ Rights Ghana, Mr. Kofi Donkor disclosed that a significantly-huge number of persons are actively  involved in the act, far more  than the public thinks.

Mr. Donkor laughed at the perception that  people perceive then as just a recalcitrant few and added that there are many people from different shades of life including many influential Ghanaians that are part of them yet are not known to the public though he knows them personally.

“We are many here, when I am sitting by my TV and watching stuff on Ghanaian TV stations, I see lots of people who appear on it being part of us but people don’t know. We are contributing a lot to the country”. He revealed on Kumasi-based Ultimate Fm

Mr. Donkor indicated that LGBTQI+ people are doing so well to help society and must be appreciated not shunned and stigmatized against as being witnessed in the country.

“I am a researcher and a public health practitioner, my research is helping many Ghanaians who are not gay but they do not know. People need to appreciate us, we are not bad. We were created just like you” he said.

He also fumed over how critics continue to compare their sexual preferences to animals indicating that it is never based on research but mere perception.

“It is funny people make comparison, that animals are not gay as the claim they don’t see male animals having sex? How can someone do that comparison? Are they in the animal world? How many animals have they studied to come to such baseless conclusions? People should allow people to be”, he begged.

“We are not animals and it is wrong to compare us to animals. We have rights just like any human being and we must be treated right”, he stressed.

He questioned the force at which some Ghanaians are opposing the LGBTQI+ community and its activities, especially MP for Ningo-Prampram Sam Nartey George.

“I hear Sam George speak against us all the time, If he had a son or daughter who wanted to express his sexuality differently would he be doing what he is doing? If he feels he is a lion, he cannot be a lion on us. He has been called Dzata Dzata Dzata and he wants to act his name, not on us. He should go into the forest and do that” he said.

Ghana’s anti LGBTQi bill is named Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values and it is currently in parliament yet to be passed.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has always come under pressure anytime the subject is being discussed as some Ghanaians believe his position on the subject is always flip-flopping.