Ghana’s vile anti-LGBTQ+ bill is ‘effectively dead’, country’s president says

Ghana’s president has said that a proposed law which would have made identifying as LGBTQ+ or campaigning for queer rights illegal is now “effectively dead.”

The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values bill, which would have strengthened existing anti-LGBTQ+ laws, is now unlikely to advance, president John Mahama is quoted as saying by the Washington Blade.

Mahama, who only took office on 7 January, explained that although MPs passed the bill last February, it needed to be approved by former president Nana Akufo-Addo before being signed into law, but parliament was dissolved before he did so.

The law would have imposed a prison sentence of up to three years for those who identified as LGBTQ+ and up to five years for those who organised or funded queer

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