
A member of the LGBT community poses for a picture during a demonstration outside the Hall of Justice in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Andrea de Silva
LGBT campaigners called on Britain yesterday (Monday 16th) to urge leaders of Commonwealth countries to make same-sex relations legal across the network of 53 mostly former British colonies, launching a petition and organising a picket.
As the week-long Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) got underway, LGBT campaigners launched a petition calling for Britain to apologise for colonial era homophobic laws, still used in 37 of the 53 member nations. Continue Reading »