Ghana

Map of the 65 countries where sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal. YELLOW countries have sodomy laws that are currently being challenged before local courts. Sri Lanka, in PINK, currently has a bill before its parliament to repeal its sodomy law. Indonesia, in ORANGE, has laws that criminalize homosexuality only in some subnational jurisdictions. All states in RED have nationwide sodomy laws and no known legislative efforts or court challenges to remove them.
LGBTQ rights update: 2025 tally and 2026 preview
Veteran LGBTI rights attorney Alice Nkom remains locked in a legal dispute with Cameroonian authorities who accuse her of “financing terrorism” — a charge she vehemently denies, declaring that her principled stand is in defense of the rule of law in Cameroon.
2025 LGBTQ rights update: African activists resist growing repression
Alban Bagbin, speaker of Ghana's parliament
Ghana Parliament welcomes anti-LGBTQ lawmakers from Uganda
Sharon Slater, president of Family Watch International, meets with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in April 2023. (Photo courtesy of X)
Anti-gay Family Watch denies ‘any role’ in Uganda’s harsh law. But it fed Uganda’s homophobia.
Ghana president pledges to sign repressive anti-LGBTQ bill
Majority Leader Mahama Ayariga (Photo courtesy of Ghana Web)
Ghana’s homophobes are confused about the status of their cruel LGBTQ bill
Transgender Ghanaian artist Angel Maxine has released a new video, "Coward."
Trans Ghanaian artist releases protest song ‘Coward’
Illustration from the cover of the Rightify Ghana report "Weaponising Homophobia in Ghana’s 2024 Elections".
Ghana politicians fomented anti-LGBTQ violence during election, report says
Ghana’s most dangerous areas for anti-gay attacks and extortion
Davis Mac-Iyalla (Photo courtesy of Mamba Online)
This African chief is gay, defiant, visible and yet traditional
Queer couple’s ‘love-bomb’ campaign sparks backlash in Ghana
Logo of Outright International
Outright launches important reports on LGBTQ rights in every country
LGBT advocates’ lives are in jeopardy in northern Ghana
Kenya Red Cross accused of hosting anti-LGBTQ+ ‘Platform of Hate’
Astraeus O'Levin, a transgender woman living in Mombasa, Kenya, visits the the Hapa-Kenya resource centre last year in Mombasa. (Dylan Robertson photo courtesy of The Canadian Press)
LGBTQ+ Africans look to Canada for help as anti-gay laws expand
Ghana President John Mahama
Ghana’s harsh anti-LGBTQ bill is back