Puerto Vallarta News

Puerto Vallarta News

Legal challenge to Caribbean island’s anti-sodomy law

A Jamaican gay rights activist has brought a rare legal challenge to the Caribbean island's anti-sodomy laws that criminalize consensual sex between men, the Canadian advocacy group he works for said Thursday.

Gay rights campaigner and attorney Maurice Tomlinson recently 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 "gross indecency" between men.

In a Wednesday statement from the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Tomlinson . . .

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