Tag: Commonwealth
Tom Daley calls on 37 anti-gay Commonwealth countries to legalise homosexuality
Tom Daley has called on more Commonwealth countries to legalise homosexuality.
The 23-year-old British diver recently won his fourth gold medal alongside Dan Goodfellow in the synchronised 10m platform at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast Australia.
Tom took to his Twitter this morning to celebrate his win, writing “GOLD” in capital letters, but also expressed his feelings about the other Commonwealth nations which criminalise LGBTQ people.
“37 of the competing nations criminalises being LGBT+,” he wrote.
“I feel so lucky to be...
Commonwealth homophobia: More than 100,000 sign petition calling for gay sex to be decriminalised
100,000 people have signed a petition calling on Commonwealth countries to roll back their anti-gay laws.
More than one billion people live in Commonwealth countries with colonial-era gay sex laws.
Many Commonwealth countries continue to enforce penal codes that were first introduced under the British Empire, and never repealed.
They include 10 years imprisonment and hard labour in Jamaica, 14 years in Kenya, 20 years plus flogging in Malaysia, and 25 years in Trinidad and Tobago.
Homosexuality is punishable by death in member...
