Trinidad and Tobago recriminalizes homosexuality

Trinidad and Tobago recriminalizes homosexuality

An appeals court in Trinidad and Tobago has recriminalized consensual same-sex sexual relations in the country. Jason Jones, an LGBTQ activist from Trinidad and Tobago who currently lives in the U.K., in 2017 challenged Sections 13 and 16 of the country’s Sexual Offenses Act. High Court Justice Devindra Rampersad the following year found them unconstitutional. The country’s government appealed Rampersad’s ruling. Court of Appeal Justices Nolan B…

On 25 March, the Court of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago re-established laws criminalizing homosexuality, thus cancelling a first step towards decriminalization in 2018. A major setback for LGBT+ rights in this Caribbean country. L'article LGBT+ rights: Trinidad and Tobago rehabilitates its homophobic laws, annulled in 2018 appeared first on the Association STOP Homophobia.