Anti-homosexual outcry has forced Ghana’s first LGBT+ community centre to temporarily close to protect its staff and visitors three weeks after it opened, its founder said on Tuesday. Church groups, politicians and anti-gay rights organisations have called on the government to shut down the centre, run by local charity LGBT+ Rights Ghana, and arrest and prosecute those involved. ‘We did not expect such an uproar,’ said Alex Kofi Donkor, director of LGBT+ Rights Ghana, which hosted the centre’s launch on January 31 attended by European and Australian diplomats. ‘We…
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