Ghanaians in support of LGBTQI+ and their allies in New York and California organised a protest last week against the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values bill which is set to be debated in Parliament.
The bill will criminalise all LGBTQI+ activities, identities and allyship and it will also impose sentences ranging from fines to mandatory conversion therapy and up to 10-years prison sentence to persons caught in the act.
The protest which saw rallies organised in Harlem, New York and in Oakland, California, is aimed at getting the anti-gay bill scrapped.
The protest is one of the latest in a series of international protests that is being organised by Ghanaians living abroad and they are calling on Parliament to drop the bill and they are also urging President Nana Akufo-Addo to veto it if Parliament passes the bill.
These LGBTQI+ protesters said that the bill if passed, would impede HIV and other health services for LGBTQI+ people.
The bill would also require suspected LGBTQI+ people to recant their sexual and gender identities and pay for conversion therapy to avoid prison time, they said.
The protesters called on Ghanaians both home and abroad to join the call for the rejection of the bill by using hashtags on social media to push their agenda.
Watch the video of the protest below.