Award-winning Ghanaian journalist who is an activist of the LGBTQI movement has exclusively revealed that he is a g@y but has kept his special preference on the low because of societal stigma and backlash.
According to the publicly confessed g@y, Ignatius Annor who currently works with Euronews, he had to keep that as a secret because he most of all feared that he might be kicked out of his job since the constitution of Ghana seriously frowns on gaysm.
Whiles speaking to Joynews, Ignatius further avowed that, he used to deny the fact that he was an activist of the LGBTQI and a gay because of the environment he found himself and what might have happened to him if he dared made such public revelation.
In the middle of the conversation, he said;
This is going to be the very first time that I am using your medium to say that not only am I an activist for the rights of Africa’s sexual minorities, what you will call the LGBTQI community, but I am gay.
Obviously, I denied it because I was afraid of losing my job, I was working at an incredible Television station in Accra and also for the fear of what would happen to me personally,
He additionally disclosed in the interview that members of his family and community are unhappy about his stance
What my community is asking for is the opportunity love like all humanity love, particularly in the case of Ghana hetero-sexuals.
It doesn’t feel like I am a human being who deserves the right to employment, the right to education, and normally the basic rights to be able to walk, drive around to wherever that I want to go to in Ghana as an openly gay man, it doesn’t feel okay, it feels dehumanized and awful.
Pressing on, he went on to divulge that he was very pained when he returned to Ghana to work only to be denied job opportunities because of suspicions from his community that he was gay.
As per his narration, his mother is against his affiliation with the LGBTQI and even told him in 2017 that it is demonic. He however thinks that his mother is misled about the wrong perception which is fed to her by the public.
Source: Gossips24.com
