Former Commonwealth Secretary General, Sir Shridath Ramphal has called for the decriminalizing of homosexuality.
Speaking as the Patron of the Human Dignity Trust in London, UK on November 28 at the showing of the film `Call me Kuchu’, Ramphal declared that “As with the abolition of slavery, the decriminalisation of homosexuality in our time must be an act of law”.
Drawing parallels with the terror of the Salem, Massachusetts witch hunts, the abolitionist movement and the campaign against apartheid in South Africa, Ramphal referred to the persecution of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and declared
