homosexual rights campaigner and attorney Maurice Tomlinson brings rare legal challenge to the Caribbean island’s anti-sodomy lawsA Jamaican homosexual rights activist has brought a rare legal challenge to the Caribbean island’s anti-sodomy laws that criminalize consensual sex between men, according to the Canadian advocacy group he works for. homosexual rights campaigner and attorney Maurice Tomlinson filed a claim in Jamaica’s supreme court challenging the constitutionality of the rarely-used 1864 laws that ban anal sex and anything interpreted as “low indecency” between men. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com