(Ghana) - When Patrick Williams told his mother he was gay, she packed his bags and threw him out of the house, disowning her son for what she saw as an evil act. The 21-year-old Ghanaian had known he was gay since he was 13, but had hesitated to tell anyone. When a schoolmate told his mother of rumours that the 18-year-old Patrick was having sex with another boy, he admitted he was gay. "She said because of what I chose to be, I was no longer her son. Was the whole world against me? This was the biggest question in my mind. My own mother sometimes says she wishes I was dead," he said. His experience is by no means unusual in the West African country, where homosexuality is seen as an unnatural sexual act and, as such, is illegal.
Note: BBC [4]
