Ghanaian lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that would become one of Africa's most restrictive pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation, three sponsors told Reuters, after an earlier attempt to enact it fell short because of legal challenges.

The bill prescribes a three-year jail term for people who identify as gay and five to 10 years for promoters and advocates.

Lawmakers in Ghana have reintroduced an anti-LGBTQ+ bill that was passed by parliament last year but not enacted

The Staten Island parade has been the lone local anti-LGBTQ holdout for years. The Throggs Neck parade in The Bronx, for example, allowed organized members of the LGBTQ community to march under a banner starting in 2022, and Manhattan’s mammoth event began permitting them to participate down Fifth Avenue about seven years earlier.

After being banned from participating for decades​, LGBTQ+ groups were allowed to march on Sunday in the Staten Island St. Patrick's Day Parade.

For the first time, the Pride Center of Staten Island held its own banner and joined the St. Patrick’s Day parade. Sunday marked an end to the 60-year ban on LGBTQ+ groups marching in Staten Island’s St.