Ghana: Why Trump Has Ghana’s LGBTQ+ Community On High Alert

Support for Ghana’s controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill emboldened by Trump.

• Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill resubmitted to parliament
• LGBTQ+ community anxious over abuse and violence
• Enacting bill into law could endanger global funding

LAGOS – For the last few weeks, Ebenezer Peegah has been on high alert.

As a LGBTQ+ activist in Ghana, he saw how violence and abuse against the community heightened when the country passed a stringent anti-LGBTQ+ bill last year, despite it never being signed into law.