UK Judges Hear Appeal on Trinidad and Tobago Anti-Gay Law

UK judges begin hearing appeal over Trinidad and Tobago anti-gay law

Activist is challenging ruling last year that restored colonial-era homophobic law against same-sex intimacy Some of the UK’s top judges are hearing arguments over whether a Trinidad and Tobago court had the legal right to overturn a 2018 ruling to remove colonial-era homophobic laws that criminalise anal sex between consenting men. The country’s “buggery law”, often referred to as its “sodomy” law, was created in 1925 and was written into Trinidad and Tobago’s 1986 Sexual Offences Act. In 20...

By Natricia Duncan, Kejan Haynes and Lisa O’Carroll