Widely known as Lady Phyll, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah is the director of UK Black Pride and a renowned activist. She gained headlines for deciding to reject an MBE in the New Year’s Honors list to protest Britain’s role in formulating anti-LGBT penal codes across its empire. She is also a senior official at the Public and Commercial…
In 37 countries in the Commonwealth, same-sex relations are criminalised and most of these laws come from old British colonial laws that have never been replaced. However, quite a number of the governments will refer to homosexuality as a “western import.” Community members in some of these countries face violence and end up fleeing from…
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