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Barbados High Court Decriminalizes Gay Sex

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Jason (pseudonym), a 40-year-old gay man from Barbados. © 2017 Amy Braunschweiger for Human Rights Watch In a landmark judgement, yesterday the Barbados High Court issued an oral ruling that decriminalized consensual same-sex relations. The written judgement will be handed down at a later date. Barbados becomes the third Eastern Caribbean country in 2022 to strike down discriminatory legal provisions and decriminalize gay sex, after Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Barbados’ Sexual Offences Act of 1992 sanctioned “buggery” with up to life imprisonment,…

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