Alex Kofi Donkor, the director of LGBTQ+ Rights Ghana and a humanist, has said that those who display sexuality that differs from that of Ghanaians or other Africans shouldn't be condemned.
He said that LGBTQ+ people should be treated with the same respect as everyone else.
Speaking on Kumasi-based Ultimate Fm, Mr. Donkor made it very obvious that talks about LGBTQ+ frequently present the group as less human or, in some circumstances, as animals.
He explained to Cup of Tea host Julius Caesar Anadem that it is strange when people cite animals as proof that people cannot be gay by not mating with the same sex.
"Its funny people make comparisons, that animals are not gays as the 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 vehemence with which certain Ghanaians, particularly Sam Nartey George, the MP for Ningo-Prampram, are attacking the LGBTQ+ community and its activities.
"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.
Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values is the name of the anti-LGBTQ+ law presently being debated in Ghana's parliament but not yet approved.
Every time this topic is brought up, President Akufo-Addo is put under pressure because some Ghanaians think he constantly shifts his viewpoint.