RECAP: I experimented with lesbianism – Ursula Owusu-Ekuful reveals

The legislative procedures on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, have sparked new discussions on the nation’s position on LGBT rights.

More particularly, there was a heated exchange between Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed and Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the representatives for Tamale Central and Ablekuma West, respectively, after what the former is thought to have said in describing the latter.

While the Tamale Central MP resisted, maintaining his position that he never used those words, Ursula claimed that Murtala had classified her as an LGBTQ+ practitioner.

This Thursday, April 29, 2021, Mynewsghana.com reprints a report in which Ursula Owusu-Ekuful admitted that she once experimented with lesbianism in a radio interview when that controversy is raging in the public.

Read the full report below:

Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Communications and Digitalization Minister, has revealed that she experimented with lesbianism known in secondary schools as ‘supi supi’ growing up as a girl in secondary school.

According to her, that stage of her life was just a passing phase in which she had to explore her sexuality even though she was attracted to the opposite sex.

Owusu-Ekuful, who was really happy that in the era she was exploring her sexuality with other girls, there were no social media because it would have been a permanent record she would have had to live with the rest of her life.

The Ablekuma West MP made this revelation when she took her turn on ‘Starr Chat’ – a personality profile show – on Starr FM monitored by GhanaWeb on Wednesday, April 28, 2021.

Ursula Owusu-Ekuful who was sharing her views on LGBTQ+ told show host Nana Aba Anamoah:

“Most of us who went through the boarding system would have had some exposure particularly in girls’ schools and in some mixed schools as well with ‘supism’. We did it. I don’t make any apologies about it, but I like my men.”

She continued: “fact, I mean, I won’t lie about it; we’ve all done it. At some stage, we’ve experimented with stuff like that but it was a passing phase. Some people never grow out of it and don’t see it as one of the secondary school things that we indulge in, in our exploration.

She added: “You’re exploring your sexuality so you do all kinds of silly things growing up. Thank God there were no social media when we were growing up; you will leave a permanent record of some of these crazy things…”

Source: Mynewsghana.com