<H1><b>JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF VICTORIA HAS REVERTED TO ITS HOMOPHOBIC STANCE OF EARLIER IN 2011</b></H1>

The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV), with much trumpeting of its "progressive" views, informed Victorian Jews that it had established a gay, lesbian, transgender (etc.) "Reference Group" to identify discrimination and vilification of GLTH Jews and with particular research into suicidal tendencies of young people in this community.

FIVE submissions were received by the JCCV when it asked people to make submissions to address the problems, and a report was issued by the JCCV.

There were no consultations, no discussions with any of the stake-holders to find out what problems there were, how to address the problems and who else to consult with.

Now here is the interesting outcome of this wasted exercise.

Firstly, members of this so-called "reference group" demanded anonymity before the report was issued. What were they afraid of???

The report was published on the JCCV web site with much fanfare in the gay media and elsewhere, and guess what??

There is NO TRACE of any GLTH issue on the JCCV web site.

This is homophobia writ large and one has to wonder what the committee of the JCCV was thinking when it established this "hole-in-the-corner" "reference group" and what was supposed to be some outcomes for the GLTH communities in Victoria.

One thing is certain - the Jewish Community Council of Victoria has established its homophobia firmly, once and for all.

How pathetic!!