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Cons slur at LGBT community

Monday night’s Full Council meeting on 17 October raised further concerns regarding the lack of support for the LGBT community from Croydon Council.

LGBT Councillor Simon Hall said:

“At the meeting of the Full Council, I asked Councillor Mohan how Croydon would meet its obligations in respect of the Equality Act given the unprecedented cuts to services for LGBT people. Cllr Mohan responded with little more than warm words and factual inaccuracies regarding Croydon Council’s work with the LGBT community in Croydon.”

Labour’s spokesperson for Communities and the voluntary sector, Councillor Matthew Kyeremeh said:

“Despite the LGBT community being approximately 1 in 10 of the population, and still suffering hugely from homophobia and transphobia, Croydon Council have chosen to savagely cut the little it did do for the LGBT community. Frankly, Croydon Council showing nothing but contempt to LGBT people. It is an outrage! I am now demanding that Cllr Mohan publically apologise to the LGBT community in Croydon.”

Rob Elliot, Chair of CROCUS, Croydon’s LGBT Group said:

“Cuts to the emergency LGBT hate crime reporting has been brutally slashed, leaving thousands of vulnerable LGBT Croydon in fear. In addition to this, LGBT history month, one of the few crumbs from the table offered by Croydon Council, has been scaled down on a level unprecedented for any minority group in Croydon.”