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Ghanaian man escapes near lynching by anti-gay mob in Nima

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A man believed to be a <a href="https://www.pulse.com.gh/news/local/lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-group-raises-dollar37113-to-acquire-new-office/bwh21qk">homosexual</a> has escaped from being lynched by an angry mob at Nima in the Greater Accra Region.
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The gay activist known as Adams Sita an eyewitness said is a gay hooking up with men in Ghana. 

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The activities of the gay man began in 2018 when he decided to explore his attraction toward males.

It all started after Adams became a friend to a man called Nana, a homosexual who came from Europe to settle down in Ghana.

The eyewitness said that Adams was introduced to many people where he goes to gay parties and engages in other illicit homosexual activities. 

Some friends who suspected them of engaging in homosexual acts threatened, and abused them at Mamobi Nima.

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The man after some time created an association for gay right and the goal was to protect and ask for justice and freedom since the human rights of queer people lag far behind in the country and violent attacks are frequent.

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People in the community suspected and started to investigate their relationship.

Though some opinion leaders in the community queried some members of the gay group denied the allegations.

On February 27, 2022, the gay members held a meeting where some aggrieved youth brought cutlasses, and stones and attacked them but luck was on the side of Adams, however, managed to escape.

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His gay partner, Nana was caught, beaten, and wounded but his situation became worse in the community through some aggrieved youth threatening to kill him.

The barbering workshop of the gay man was also destroyed by the aggrieved youth.

Ghana's LGBTQ+ community continues to face rampant discrimination, with perpetrators justifying their actions by citing colonial-era laws forbidding unnatural carnal knowledge.

Activists have warned that the bill could also promote conversion therapy for Ghana's embattled LGBT+ community.

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