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Homophobia in Ghana is largely the product of US-based Christian imperialists.

https://www.africaproactive.com/blog/releasethe21-the-lgbtq-...

Upvoted. Similar in Eastern Europe. 90-00s were more tolerant than now, in large part due to american evangelical influence.

90s Russia: t.A.T.u and Army of Lovers fandom and Ruki Vverkh![1]

Russia 25 years later: This rainbow-colored ice cream is too gay.[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phxQFEH51SE

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-53319505

Why is this so downvoted? A number of other countries, Uganda for one, suffer from the same infection.

Because Western imperialism is very likely only a secondary cause, if any. You see strong condemnation of sodomy all across Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and South Asia, with an extremely wide variety of religious and practical (STD prevention) underlying motivations, even in regions without any history of imperialist occupation, and such cultural norms are stronger in regions with higher birth rates, higher infectious disease death rates and lower hygiene standards.

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