Tonga's acting attorney-general believes there will be strong opposition to calls from Tonga's LGBTI community to revise the country's Criminal Offences Act.

Drawing Gay Flag

The Tonga Leiti‘s Association has planned a national consultation with government leaders in December to petition for changes in the act relating to cross-dressing and sodomy.

Aminiasi Kefu said references in the Criminal Offences Act to consenting acts like sodomy would be looked at if the government decriminalised homosexuality.

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Tonga, it’s time to move into 2016, from 1916 – just decriminalised homosexuality.

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