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LGBT+ Rights Ghana was founded in 2018 as a cyber activism blog. In 2020, it created a social media page called "Ghana Gay
Blackmail List" to fight blackmailing and extortion of gay men by cataloguing blackmailing incidents and providing a link for LGBT persons who have been blackmailed to submit
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Inspector General of Police to arrest all persons associated with the organization. In response, LGBT+ Rights Ghana issued a statement asserting that LGBT persons in Ghana are entitled to human rights, including
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Director of LGBT+ Rights Ghana stated that the page was created after many LGBT Ghanaians were assaulted, threatened at gunpoint, and robbed by blackmailers, but received no assistance from the police.
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and extortion of gay men. In 2021, the organization opened its office in Accra which led to public outrage and opposition from anti-LGBT organizations in Ghana. LGBT+ Rights Ghana's
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