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LGBTQ+ persons are Ghanaians too and demand protection from the Police-Trans singer, Angel Maxine bemoans
Ghana’s only open transgender musician and LGBTQ+ activist, Angel Maxine has bemoaned the lack of Police interests in LGBTQ+ issues in the country.
According to Angel Maxine, the Ghana Police Service has often turned a blind eye to security issues affecting the queer community.
Angel Maxine’s comments on the matter comes following a series of attacks on some members of the queer community in Ghana, which she says has received zero attention from the Police
In a lengthy video that has been shared on her Instagram, Angel Maxine has lamented about the matter, while stating that queer people from Ghana deserve the same protection everyone else in the country has.
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“Ghana Police, so I want to ask you, are LGBTQ+ not part of Ghana? Are we not Ghanaians? Why is it that when issues of LGBTQ+ comes, nobody pays attention to it, nobody wants to mind, you all pay a blind eye to it. Why?” she asked in the video.
She continued; “There are so many times when queer people have been attacked, brutally abused and nobody pays attention to it. Is it because we are queer? Let’s take our queer identity aside, are we not Ghanaians? Are we not part of Ghana?”
The “Wo Fie” singer also shared some experiences she’s had with the Police, revealing that queer people are not paid attention to when they report cases, but are rather “frustrated” with “why are you gay” questions from the Police.
Angel also tagged the Police as being “unfair to gay people,” adding that the Police’s reluctance to respond to abuse on gay people is the reason they’re been attacked everyday.
She therefore demanded that they’re protected, just like every Ghanaian citizen.
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“We’re not here to beg you, we demand protection. We demand it because we’re Ghanaians. Your duty is to protect us and no join people to abuse us,” she added.
Watch video below;