Last year's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham featured a heavy focus on LGBTQ+ rights across the CGF's 72 member nations and territories.

Birmingham 2022 featured a Pride House dedicated to LGBTQ+ inclusion, diversity and culture, while English diver Tom Daley used the Opening Ceremony to campaign for rights and spearheaded a BBC documentary Illegal to Be Me.

Homosexuality remains outlawed in around half of those nations and territories, although attention has been drawn to the fact many of these laws date back to anti-gay legislation imposed by colonial administrators.

In Commonwealth Youth Games host nation Trinidad and Tobago, activist Jason Jones was instrumental in the successful fight to decriminalise adult consensual same-sex intimacy in 2018, and walked alongside Daley at the Birmingham 2022 Opening Ceremony.

However, same-sex marriage remains unrecognised in Trinidad and Tobago, and Uganda and Ghana are two members of the CGF who have moved towards regressive legislation this year.

Sadleir vowed the CGF will continue its LGBTQ+ advocacy work, but claimed it cannot drive legal changes in its member states.

"I think we've really just started," Sadleir told insidethegames.

"I spent quite a bit of time with Tom Daley in the lead-up to the Commonwealth Games and Michael Gunning and quite a few of the Pride champions to understand what more they felt we could be doing.

"I was interviewed several times for [Daley's] Illegal to be Me in the lead-up and he wrote a manifesto of the things he thought was really important, and I encouraged him to meet with the group we have established in terms of the Commonwealth Pride Network to make sure we're all learning and challenging each other on what can be done.

"I'm really open, if there's more things we can do, but the Commonwealth Games movement doesn't have the ability to change laws inside people's countries.

"What we can do is create a safe place during the events we run for people to have the ability to have those conversations that need to be had."

Sadleir pointed to the CGF's Athlete Advocacy Framework to allow athletes to raise issues important to them, and insisted "it is really important to give athletes the right to talk".

She added the CGF passionately believes in LGBTQ+ inclusion and would continue working towards this.

"In terms of the pride, clearly it is something we have been involved with for quite some time, and we will constantly look at what more we can do within the boundaries of what we can control and influence, which is our products and programmes," she said.

"From that perspective, it is something that as a Board and a movement we feel deeply about, and we'll continue to advocate for that at all opportunities."