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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

Commonwealth Games must do more for LGBT rights, says former swimmer

Michael Gunning
Michael Gunning retired from swimming earlier this year to help promote equality in sport. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

The former Team GB swimmer Michael Gunning has called on the Commonwealth Games to do more to help improve LGBTQ+ rights in member countries as he talked of his “petrifying” experience visiting his home country, Jamaica, for the first time since he came out as gay.

Gunning, who retired from swimming earlier this year to help promote equality in sport, said the event could do more on the global stage to push the issue.

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