Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1079 Wednesday 2 November 2011
Grindrdouchebags
page26
CHOGM ignores law repeal call
Nobody’s
listening
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has delivered on
a pledge...
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1079 Wednesday 2 November 2011
Grindrdouchebags
page26
CHOGM ignores law repeal call
Nobody’s
listening
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has delivered on
a pledge to call on Commonwealth nations
to end laws targeting sexual minorities at the
CommonwealthHeadsofGovernmentMeeting
(CHOGM) in Perth.
However calls by the host nation look to have
fallen on deaf ears, with decriminalisation of
LGBTIs receiving no mention in the CHOGM
2011 Comminique that lists Commonwealth
leaders’ priorities for the next two years.
Rudd raised the need to repeal sodomy laws
during a Foreign Ministers Meeting with Civil
Society on Thursday.
The meeting coincided with the release of
the former prime minister’s It Gets Better video
on YouTube.
“Kevin strongly declared Australia’s position
on decriminalisation, and our determination
to continue to advocate for LGBT rights within
the Commonwealth and more broadly,” R
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