Stringent anti-gay legislation is sweeping across Africa like a peat fire. Not only dictatorships like Uganda want to crack down on the LGBTQIA+ community, but now democracies like Ghana as well. In this episode of 'Frontline', Bram Vermeulen tries to find out what the driving forces are behind this culture war.

Bram goes out with parliamentarian Samuel 'Dzata' George who is hard at work lobbying for high prison sentences. George turns out to be in close contact with an evangelical and conservative group in Utah, the United States, which organizes congresses and mobilizes parliamentarians in many African countries.

The LGBTQIA+ community in Ghana faces a diabolical dilemma. Go into hiding, leave the country or fight back? The number of violent incidents against gays, queers and transgender people appears to have increased significantly since the bill was passed. This is prompting more and more people in the LGBTQIA+ community to be cautious. Only a handful of people continue to fight and rebel against the law at the risk of their lives.

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