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# Ghanaian journalist comes out as gay on live TV
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/ghanaian-journalist-comes-out-as-gay-on-live-tv/
- Published: 2021-02-25T12:30:28.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-25T08:43:43.000Z
- Description: Reporter, Ignatius Annor from Ghana, came out as gay on live TV, and shared a message of solidarity with the country’s LGBTQ+ community.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Queer Corner, Television, gay rights, Ghana, LGBTQ, LGBTQ Africa, LGBTQ+ rights

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Ignatius Annor

On **F** **eburary 22**, *Euronews* reporter, **Ignatius Annor** from **Ghana**, came out as gay on live TV, and shared a message of solidarity with the country’s LGBTQ+ community, which regularly faces discrimination and persecution. Annor appeared in a segment on [*Joy News*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S9tB5TRKAI&feature=emb%5Ftitle&ref=scenemag.co.uk) about LGBTQ+ rights in Ghana, after the country’s [first LGBTQ+ community hub](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/ghana-sets-up-first-lgbtq-community-hub/) opened, sparking backlash from far-right and religious groups, which argued LGBTQ+ Ghanaians do not have rights according to the country’s legislation.

In response to the situation, Annor 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 LGBTQ+ community, but I am gay.”* He continued to say that he hid his sexuality through fear of losing his job, and said it is vital for LGBTQ+ Ghanaians to have a safe space such as the new community hub.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/lgbt-pride-flag-600-400.jpg)

He urged Ghanaian citizens to support the LGBTQ+ community instead of dehumanising queer people: *“What my community is asking for is the opportunity to love like all humanity loves, particularly in the case of Ghana heterosexuals. 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.”*