However, there are exceptions, mostly in the Caribbean.
Gay rights are constitutionally enshrined in most of South and North America. Here are the other nations around the world that still criminalise same-sex relations, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association: The Americas “About 90% of Ghanaians say they support the law”, according to Africa News. “Arbitrary arrests and detention” cause “serious economic hardship and psychological stress” for LGBT people in Ghana, according to Human Rights Watch, which says the new bill is an additional “affront to dignity, privacy, and non-discrimination, and an assault on freedoms of speech, expression, association, and assembly”.Īctivists in the country have suggested that the legislation is linked to the World Congress of Families, a “US group with links to the far-right” that hosted a conference in Accra, Ghana’s capital, in late 2019, CNN reported, but it also has local backing. It has long been illegal in practice under an “old British colonial-era law” which has never been invoked in a prosecution. But homosexuality has been “deeply taboo in the highly religiously country for decades”. Ghana is seen by many as “a beacon of democracy and liberalism in a troubled region”, the paper reported.
The secret history of the gay soldiers who served in the First World WarĬritics have described the anti-gay law, which follows “a wave of homophobic attacks that has swept across the West African nation over the last few years”, as “the most draconian anti-LGBTQ legislation on earth”, The Telegraph said.How Viktor Orban’s anti-LGBTQ+ laws made the EU more hawkish on Hungary.