Last week saw a landmark court case for gay people in the Caribbean. Now Britain must work to strike out such colonial-era laws throughout its former empireI am a gay Trinidadian. Until three days ago, making that statement could have landed me in prison. Before Thursday, it was a crime for adults of the same gender to have sex. Our “buggery” law imposed 25 years’ imprisonment. All other intimacy between two women or two men risked five years’ imprisonment under the demeaningly named offence of “serious indecency”.Last year I said enough is enough and sued my country to change the law. My legal team, led by Richard Drabble QC, argued that these laws violate the right to privacy, family life, equality before the law and freedom of expression. Continue reading…
Via: We won in Trinidad. Now it’s time to end all homophobic laws in the Commonwealth
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