Alex Kofi Donkor, the director of LGBTQ+ Rights Ghana and a humanist, has hinted that those who display sexuality that is different from that of Ghanaians or other Africans shouldn’t be ostracised.
He contends that non-LGBTQI people should be treated with the same respect as LGBTQI people.
Appearing on Kumasi’s Ultimate FM, Mr. Donkor asserted that talks of LGBTQI people frequently depict them as less human or, in some circumstances, as animals.
He said when people use animals as examples of not mating as same-sex to justify why people must not be gay, it’s weird.
“It’s funny people make comparisons, that animals are not gays as they claim they don’t see male animals having sex, how can someone do that comparison? Are they in the animal world? How many animals have they studied to come to such baseless conclusions? People should allow people to be,” he pleaded.
“We are not animals and it is wrong to compare us to animals. We have rights just like any human being and we must be treated right,” he stressed.
He questioned the force at which some Ghanaians are opposing the LGBTQI community and its activities, especially MP for Ningo-Prampram Sam Nartey George.
“I hear Sam George speak against us all the time. If he had a son or daughter who wanted to express his sexuality differently would he be doing what he is doing? If he feels he is a lion, he cannot be a lion on us. He has been called Gyata Gyata Gyata and he wants to act his name, not on us then he should go to the forest and do that,” he said.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
