{"id":196553,"date":"2025-04-22T11:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T09:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-why-trump-has-ghanas-lgbtq-community-on-high-alert\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T11:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T09:36:36","slug":"ghana-why-trump-has-ghanas-lgbtq-community-on-high-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-why-trump-has-ghanas-lgbtq-community-on-high-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Why Trump Has Ghana&#8217;s LGBTQ+ Community On High Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>Support for Ghana&#8217;s controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill emboldened by Trump.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ghana&#8217;s anti-LGBTQ+ bill resubmitted to parliament<\/li>\n<li>LGBTQ+ community anxious over abuse and violence<\/li>\n<li>Enacting bill into law could endanger global funding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">LAGOS &#8211; For the last few weeks, Ebenezer Peegah has been on high alert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">As a LGBTQ+ activist in Ghana, he saw how violence and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.context.news\/socioeconomic-inclusion\/lgbtq-ghanaians-face-eviction-as-tough-bill-nears-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abuse against the community<\/a> heightened when the country passed a stringent anti-LGBTQ+ bill last year, despite it never being signed into law.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.gpt-outer-ad-container.gpt-inread-outer-ad-container.inread-a-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504220001.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support for Ghana&#8217;s controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill emboldened by Trump. Ghana&#8217;s anti-LGBTQ+ bill resubmitted to parliament LGBTQ+ community anxious over abuse and violence Enacting bill into law could endanger global funding LAGOS &#8211; For the last few weeks, Ebenezer Peegah has been on high alert. As a LGBTQ+ activist in Ghana, he saw how violence and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,13490,7963,4508,4509,8226,6184,16309,257,254,6264],"class_list":["post-196553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alert","tag-community","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-high","tag-lgbtq","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}