text:  You go to the mall and then you have to make sure you work with someone as a security protection. Or you are at a restaurant, some people walk there and then they try to humiliate you. And when they attack you there, they are safe. That's Magdalen Kovana. He's an activist in Ghana's LGBT community. Being openly gay in Ghana has been illegal on paper ever since independence from Britain in the 1950s. But in the past, a blind eye has often been turned.