'Suspected' lesbians in Ghana's capital targeted after homophobic residents put up posters

The incident comes a day after a group of 'suspected' lesbians in the same community were stoned and pelted with human faeces by an angry mob

08 MARCH 2015

Front page of Daily Graphic, a Ghanaian newspaper, June 21, 2011

A group of homophobic residents in a slum in Ghana’s capital of Accra have put up posters of 'suspected' lesbians living in the community

The Starr newspaper reported that the homophobic residents have 'vowed to hunt down and (are) bay(ing) for the blood of all lesbians' after flooding the shanty town of Teshie with posters of what is reported to be a 'private selfie of a tattooed girl kissing her partner in the privacy of their bedroom.'

A day before the posters were released, a group of 'suspected' lesbians was attacked after some residents violently disrupted an event said to be a traditional ritual that was organized by a pair of suspected lesbian twins for their sick mother.

The Starr reported that the women and their friends were stoned and pelted with human faeces by an angry mob who claimed the alleged ritual ceremony was a guise for a lesbian birthday bash.

One of the women said she had made a police report several days prior to the attack after she heard of plans by her neighbors to disrupt the event.

She also said that the pictures were secretly copied from her phone as she was charging the device in the neighborhood.

Earlier this year, a popular entertainment personality – whose name was not disclosed in the media – was reportedly beaten after he was allegedly caught ‘attempting’ to have sex with another man in Accra.

In March 2012, nine suspected gays and one lesbian were attacked by an anti-gay vigilante group in the Jamestown district of Accra after the local media reported on two lesbian marriages that have reportedly taken place in the city.

Although homosexual acts are not specifically mentioned by the law in Ghana, the law prohibits 'unnatural carnal knowledge’ involving ‘sexual intercourse with a person in an unnatural manner.'

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Gay youth stoned to death in Jamaica

Horrific video appears on social media

09 MARCH 2015 | BY JOE MORGAN

An angry mob stoned a young, allegedly gay man to death in Jamaica and filmed themselves hurling rocks at his head.

The video of the murder of the alleged gay youth, believed to be aged around 19 to 21, has gone viral on social media after being posted last week.

It shows the young man dressed effeminately with long hair, appearing to be tied up in ropes or wire, laying in a pool of his own blood. A large stone is thrown at the boy's head, blood gushes out.

It's not clear whether he is still alive or conscious as the rocks break his skull.

You can hear homophobic slurs, clearly said with a Jamaican accent, yelling: 'Batty man yuh fi dead!' This means, 'Gay, you should die'.

The identity of the murdered youth and many of the other details of the stoning are still unknown. Some have reported the victim was gay and had visited underground gay venues in Kingston.

GSN has seen the video but has decided it is too horrific to embed on our site. You can view it here.

Uncomfirmed social media reports suggest the youth was stoned in Montego Bay and it is believed to have happened in the last few weeks.

This is the same parish where gender non-conforming teen Dwayne Jones was murdered in 2013. Jones was chopped and stabbed to death by a mob. No one was ever charged with the murder.

Dwayne Brown, a Jamaican gay rights activist currently living in New York City, said attacks like this are not unheard of. What's worse, he says, is that anti-LGBTI attackers can brutally murder someone and not even get caught.

Brown asked GSN to publish this article despite so many of the details not being known in order to highlight the situation in Jamaica.

Speaking to Gay Star News, he said: 'It's time for persecution of LGBTI persons to end. The silence of our government, the silence of our politicians, the silence of our community allows this type of behavior to continue.

'Until the silence is broken, people will continue to die as a result of anti-gay attacks. People need to rise up and call for a full investigation into this video.

'We must have conclusive evidence, who is this person? The fact that someone can be beaten to death by several people, and nothing happens because of it, that's disgusting. It's nothing new, but it needs to change.'

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