LGBTQI+ Advocate Reveals They Are Many In Ghana And Make A Lot Of Impact In The Country

The LGBTQI+ community claims that there are many Ghanaians in it, despite the criticism of those who participate in behavior that is seen to violate Ghanaian family values and calls for criminalizing such behavior.

Leaders of the organization assert that despite discrimination against LGBTQI+ people, it is obvious that they make significant contributions to the development of the nation across many fields.

Mr. Kofi Donkor, the founder, and director of LGBT+ Rights Ghana, said that more persons are participating in the act than the general public believes and cautioned against people considering them as a small group.

He claimed that although he knows them personally, many members of them, from many walks of life, including many powerful Ghanaians, are not well-known to the general public.

"We are many here; when I watch programs on Ghanaian TV channels, I frequently notice people who are a member of us but the public is unaware of it. We make significant contributions to the nation." He disclosed this on Kumasi's Ultimate FM.

According to Mr. Donkor, LGBTQI+ individuals contribute significantly to society and should be praised rather being ostracized and vilified as is now the case in the nation.

"I work in public health and am a researcher. My study is assisting many Ghanaians who are not homosexual but are unaware. People should respect us since we are not terrible. We were made in the same image as you,'' he continued.

He also railed against critics who keep drawing parallels between human sexual desires and those of animals, saying that such comparisons are never founded on fact but rather on impression.

"I find it amusing when people assert that animals are not homosexual since they never witness male animals having sex. How is that comparison even possible? Are they considered to be animals? How many different species have they researched for such illogical conclusions?" He pleaded with them to let individuals be.

"Comparing humans to animals is inappropriate since we are not animals, We must be treated fairly since we have rights just like any other human being," he said.

He questioned the vehemence with which certain Ghanaians, particularly Sam Nartey George, the MP for Ningo-Prampram, are opposing the LGBTQI+ community and its activities.

"I often hear Sam George talk against us. Would he still be acting in this way if he had a child that chose to display his sexuality differently? He cannot be a lion to us if he believes himself to be one. He's been given the moniker Dzata Dzata Dzata, and he wants to live up to it, not to us. He ought to do that in the woods," he advised.

Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values is the name of the anti-LGBTQi law that Ghana is now debating in parliament but has not yet passed.

Every time the topic is raised, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo faces criticism since some Ghanaians think he constantly shifts his position.