Angel Maxine, a popular Ghanaian artist and transsexual, has said that she was forced to migrate to Germany owing to Ghana’s terrible conditions for members of the LGBT+ community.
According to Maxine, it became imperative to depart the nation owing to difficulties in carrying out her normal and professional tasks.
“I had to leave Ghana so I could find a safe space where I could continue to do my work. Being an openly transgender woman in Ghana, it’s a warfare. I couldn’t even walk on the streets, I couldn’t join the public bus, I couldn’t go to certain places; I couldn’t perform at certain places. As a musician, I had people who did not want to associate with me because I was a trans woman,” she said in a video shared via social media.
Maxine expressed worry about the safety of members of Ghana’s LGBT+ community and hoped that things will improve in the future to allow homosexual and transgender people to live freely in Ghana.
“I honestly feel bad for the future of LGBTQ rights in Ghana because as it stands now, we can see that everything going on is political propaganda. I don’t see why we should now have to run away from our country just to feel safe. I hope that one day all these things will stop so that queer people can live their lives freely and be opened, be happy and be able to also add positively to the society,” she said.
Angel Maxine’s admission comes after Ghana’s parliament approved an anti-LGBT+ bill.
