It's funny how cultures are different. In the US, a statement like that would be considered a little crass or embarrassing. But then, we don't live surrounded by pervasive poverty and lack of opportunity. Plenty of people in the U.S. are poor, even desperately poor, but most of us aren't. And most of us at least believe (not entirely accurately) that poverty is attenuated by social programs, that most poor people don't go hungry or live without shelter.

Hierarchy of needs, eh? I don't have much money, but I'm privileged in the sense that I don't have to worry about where my next meal is coming from or how I'm going to heat my house (and thus stay alive) during the approaching winter.

Many people where you live are less privileged than that. So advocacy on social issues takes a different balance, I would suppose.

Is it harder in Ghana to raise awareness on LGBTQ issues, do you think, because other pressing issues take up most of public attention?