{"id":52800,"date":"2021-02-25T06:15:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T06:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/25\/lgbtq-ghanaians-under-threat-after-backlash-against-new-support-centre"},"modified":"2021-02-25T07:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T07:14:23","slug":"lgbtq-ghanaians-under-threat-after-backlash-against-new-support-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/25\/lgbtq-ghanaians-under-threat-after-backlash-against-new-support-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian LGBTQ+ centre closes after threats and abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founder says community centre in Accra was closed pre-emptively to protect its staff<\/p><p>A community centre for LGBTQ+ people in Ghana has been closed, following a wave of protest against the rights of sexual minorities in the country.<\/p><p>In recent weeks government ministers and religious groups had demanded the closure of the centre, intended to be a safe space for LGBTQ+ people to meet and find support. Yet since the opening in January of the centre in the capital, Accra, many people have received death threats and online abuse.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/nov\/23\/nowhere-to-go-the-young-lgbt-ugandans-outed-during-lockdown\">\u2018Nowhere to go': the young LGBT+ Ugandans \u2018outed\u2019 during lockdown<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/25\/lgbtq-ghanaians-under-threat-after-backlash-against-new-support-centre\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/25\/lgbtq-ghanaians-under-threat-after-backlash-against-new-support-centre\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder says community centre in Accra was closed pre-emptively to protect its staffA community centre for LGBTQ+ people in Ghana has been closed, following a wave of protest against the rights of sexual minorities in the country.In recent weeks govern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,4231,1333,6,1336,105,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53058,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52800\/revisions\/53058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}