Caribbean LGBTQ+ activists celebrate as court strikes down colonial-era laws
by Natricia Duncan and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#6Z1JE)
Stride in the right direction' as Eastern Caribbean supreme court rules St Lucia's laws on gay sex unconstitutional
Activists have hailed a historic judgment striking down colonial-era laws that criminalised gay sex in St Lucia as a step forward for LGBTQ+ rights in the Caribbean country.
This week the Eastern Caribbean supreme court found that the island's so-called buggery and gross indecency laws, which criminalised consensual anal sex, were unconstitutional.
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