UK judges hear appeal against Trinidad and Tobago's colonial-era anti-gay law

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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 2017 a Trinidadian LGBTQ+ rights activist, Jason Jones , challenged the law, and in 2018 a high court ruled that it infringed upon his constitutional right to privacy and equality.

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