Parliamentary Speakers Hold Hands around Kill The Gays Legislation

By Melanie Nathan, July 24, 2025

Ugandan Parliamentary Speaker, Anita Among whines about How "Everyone Rejected Me" After Passing Anti-Gay Bill, should serve as a warning to Alban Bagbin, but is unlikely to as Ghana continues on the road toward legislation that will have the world call it a Pariah in the same way as it has done with regard to Uganda. The two anti-Homosexuality proponents stood together as Speaker Among hosted Speaker Bagbin in Uganda:

On June 5, 2025, Ugandan Speaker of Parliament Anita Among welcomed her Ghanaian counterpart, Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin, to the Parliament House in Kampala, highlighting their shared stance on anti-LGBTQ legislation. During the meeting, Among revealed the isolation she faced after Uganda passed its controversial Anti-Homosexuality Act, stating, “When I had problems after passing the Anti-Homosexuality bill, everyone rejected me." Of course, apart from President Museveni, who upon signing the legislation actually called on all African leaders to "save the world from homosexuality." Some are attempting to oblige! Since that time Burkina Faso has passed criminalizing laws, and Kenya and Ghana have introduced new harsh anti-LGBT laws.

Among went on to say: "When everybody rejected me, I had my brother [Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin] here. He was the only person who came out in the region to support me. It was my brother here from Ghana and from Kenya, the Rt. Hon. Wetang'ula. They spoke passionately about family.”

Bagbin, a vocal advocate for Ghana’s 'Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill,' praised Among’s leadership, saying, “She has not been long in Parliament like I do, but I can tell you that her performance is A+. She’s very, very good.” Bagbin, who has previously declared that LGBTQI is “worse than COVID-19” and vowed he would “rather die than live to see LGBTQ people have rights in Ghana,” has consistently supported Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ legislation since its introduction in 2021 and reintroduction in 2025.

The alliance between Among, Bagbin, and other regional leaders like Kenya’s Wetang'ula underscores a growing network of lawmakers pushing anti-LGBTQ laws across Africa, raising alarms among human rights advocates about the erosion of any possibility for protections for marginalized communities. This is leading to great harms and violence being licensed and hence perpetrated against LGBTQI+ citizens of this countries, causing mass flight, with few safe viable pathways to protection and freedom, and no durable solutions in sight: African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) continues to provide humanitarian outcomes such as safe shelters for those forcibly displaced on the Continent. AHRC also seeks pathways through innovation - while gate-keepers continue to deny or hog funding, as the case may be, and slam doors in the face of new bold ideas. AHRC seeks ways to educate and foster understanding of human sexuality in locations where it continues to be an uphill battle. The latter often impossible when governments legislate to shut down advocacy by criminalizing so called "promotion of homosexuality" propped up by faux terminology such as " the gays want to recruit your children".

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