Homophobia is not uncommon in Ghana, where gay sex is already against the law and carries a three-year prison sentence, but now the LGBTQ+ community is feeling terrorised. A new bill, passed by MPs last week, will impose a jail term of up to three years for simply identifying as LGBTQ+ and five years for promoting their activities. “A relative told me if this bill is passed, any chance he gets, he is going to poison me because I am an abomination to the family,” Mensah, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, tells the BBC. Dressed in an all-black outfit, the young man in his late teens looks visibly terrified: “I am very worried anyone can snitch on me, even in my own neighbourhood. It’s going to be very hard to live here.”