Fijian uni gets GLBT group
Fiji’s largest university has a group for GLBT students just seven months after the country formally decriminalised homosexuality.
The Drodrolagi Movement support group, established at the University of the South Pacific’s Suva campus, aims to provide a safe environment and support structure for GLBT students while raising awareness of their issues in the wider student population.
The word ‘drodrolagi’ means ‘rainbow’ in the Fijian language.
The group held its first meeting on September 27, with the winner of the Miss Seniku gay beauty pageant, Rani Ravudi, giving some celebrity support.
“Safety is paramount for us,” Drodrolagi Movement coordinator Kris Prasad told The Fiji Times
“We want students to be comfortable in their own skin, and joining the movement is totally voluntary.”
In 2005 an Australian man and his Fijian partner were sentenced to two years in prison for consensual same-sex activity, but were freed within months through a constitutional appeal.
At the beginning of this year, the Bainimarama Government repealed the country’s old Penal Code, which defined homosexuality as illegal.
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