Ghanian minister calls for gays to be rounded up.

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Just to remind people this sort of nonsense isn't confined to Uganda.

http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2011/07/21/ghana-cracks-down-on-gays/57436

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ghana-official-calls-for-effort-to-round-up-suspected-gays-2318507.html

"In a new burst of African homophobia, a government minister in Ghana has drawn support after calling on the country's intelligence services to track down and arrest all gays and lesbians.

The call from Paul Evans Aidoo, the minister for the Western Region of Ghana, marks the latest in a series of expressions of officially condoned homophobia across the continent, which has previously been seen in Malawi, Uganda and South Africa.

Joy FM, a popular radio station in the capital Accra, reported earlier this week that Mr Aidoo, a Catholic, said: "All efforts are being made to get rid of these people in society." He called for the Bureau of National Investigations to round up gays and called on landlords and tenants to inform on people they suspect of being homosexual. "Once they have been arrested, they will be brought before the law," he is reported to have said."

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Oops on the thread title. Been fixed.

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(that many states in Africa are insanely homophobic is sad but also sadly unsurprising)

Visits by American pastors hosting conferences saying gays are child molesters responsible for the holocaust don't help either. Especially when those who drafted, in Uganda, the 'kill the gays' bill were in attendance. Glasgow is home to an increasing number of West African migrants. No worries there but it presents us with a new strain of, at times agressive homophobia which is not so easily challeged due to our desire to be 'culturally sensitive.'