A day after its general conference voted down a bill that would have allowed clergy to perform same-sex marriages, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting in Orlando, Florida, passed a resolution on July 8 to appoint a sexual ethics discernment committee to make recommendations to the denomination about LGBTQ matters.
In October 2020, Kofi Mensah was leaving a mall in central Accra, Ghana, when a group of young boys approached him and started making scornful gestures and remarks about the way he spoke and walked.
Mensah said they were profiling him because he is gay. When he asked them to stop, one of the boys shoved him and the other spat at him while people looked on.
“We [LGBTQ people] experience this almost every day, wherever we go,” he told the Century. “They treat us as though we are not humans, deserving of love and care and other privileges and rights citizens should enjoy.”