antigayism

Despite its antigayism, however, for many of the women with whom I interacted, the controversy was a crucial reference point in conveying Ghanaian norms of respectability and in exemplifying why all same-sex intimacies (male or female) should remain "a silent trade" and should not be discussed in the public arena (Dankwa 2009).

2020, Serena Owusu Dankwa, “The Imagined Homoconference: "Activistism" and the Politics of Indirection”, in Rachel Spronk, Thomas Hendriks, editors, Readings in Sexualities from Africa, Bloomington, I.N.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 172