| LGBTI Victories in the Caribbean and a Turning Point for LGBTI Rights in the Americas |
| By Ari Shaw in Global Americans – January 25, 2023 |
| At the end of 2022, LGBTI activists in Barbados achieved a stunning victory: the High Court of Barbados ruled that the criminalization of consensual same-sex intimacy is unconstitutional. Like many former British colonies, Barbados inherited penal codes with proscriptions against “buggery” and other vaguely defined acts that had been used to directly target LGBTI people. The Barbados Sexual Offences Act of 1992 imposed sentences of up to life in prison if convicted. While many of these laws on the books are selectively enforced, they are nevertheless dangerous and stigmatizing signals of disapproval that can lead to violence and discrimination against LGBTI people. |
International and Comparative SOGIESC Law - Professor Andreas R Ziegler 