Zaind / Ghana
“My name is Zaind from Ghana, I am 30 years old and am a homosexual. And I started homosexuality at the age of 16 years, I was schooling and I was in JSS at that time. I became a homosexual because my family didn’t have money to send me to school. I then met a certain man at school who decided to help me complete my school. After that, he told me he will do something with me before I become a homosexual and I agreed because of financial issues, so he did it with me. After that, I became interested in homosexuality, and to do it with other people. But in this community or in Ghana, it is not easy to be a homosexual because you go through a lot of things. Which is, people laugh at you, people beat you and people insult you. Even the first day I went to the hospital to get myself treated, when they realized I was a homosexual it wasn’t easy. The way they spoke bad things about me and the things they did to me, it wasn’t easy. So in Ghana, if you are a homosexual you won’t get things easy. Especially in the community you live or anywhere you are, you won’t get things easy.”
