Trinidad and Tobago: Court Overturns Same-Sex Intimacy Ban

Expand Jason Jones, activist of the LGBT community celebrates with other activist court judgment outside the Hall of Justice in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, April 12, 2018. © 2018 REUTERS/Andrea de Silva (Washington, DC, April 13, 2018) – The High Court of Justice in Trinidad and Tobago ruled on April 12, 2018, that the country’s laws criminalizing same-sex intimacy between consenting adults are unconstitutional, Human Rights Watch said today. It is a resounding win for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists in the country and in particular for Jason Jones, the claimant…

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