{"id":272658,"date":"2011-01-03T11:20:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T11:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=44424"},"modified":"2011-01-03T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T11:20:23","slug":"one-percent-of-ghanaians-are-gay-or-lesbian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/03\/one-percent-of-ghanaians-are-gay-or-lesbian\/","title":{"rendered":"One percent of Ghanaians are gay or lesbian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_44425\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44425\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-44425\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/03\/one-percent-of-ghanaians-are-gay-or-lesbian\/gay\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44425\" title=\"gay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gay Couple<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nMore than 200,000 people or one per cent of Ghana&#8217;s adult population regard themselves as gay or lesbian, according a study.<br \/>\nThe data has been collected by the Ghana Household Survey (GHS).<br \/>\nThe  100,000 individual respondents to the survey provided the biggest pool  of Ghana social data after the national census, the statistics service  said.<br \/>\n95 per cent of adults identify themselves as  heterosexual\/straight while just one percent of adults see themselves as  gay or lesbian.<br \/>\nAnother 0.5 per cent of adults said they are bisexual and a similar proportion described their sexuality as &#8216;other&#8217;.<br \/>\nJust  under 3 per cent of adults responded &#8220;don&#8217;t know&#8221; or refused to answer  the question. Fewer than one percent of respondents provided no  response.<br \/>\nThe highest proportion of adults who identified as gay,  lesbian or bisexual were in Accra, Takoradi and Kumasi with the lowest  found in Tama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200,000 people or one per cent of Ghana&#8217;s adult population regard themselves as gay or lesbian, according a study. The data has been collected by the Ghana Household Survey (GHS). The 100,000 individual respondents to the survey provided the biggest pool of Ghana social data after the national census, the statistics service said. 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