Both crimes were understood to criminalize consensual same-sex conduct and were relics of British colonial law. The written judgement will be handed down at a later date.īarbados becomes the third Eastern Caribbean country in 2022 to strike down discriminatory legal provisions and decriminalize gay sex, after Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Kitts and Nevis.īarbados’ Sexual Offences Act of 1992 sanctioned “buggery” with up to life imprisonment, and “serious indecency” with up to 10 years’ imprisonment. In a landmark judgement, yesterday the Barbados High Court issued an oral ruling that decriminalized consensual same-sex relations. © 2017 Amy Braunschweiger for Human Rights Watch ![]() Jason (pseudonym), a 40-year-old gay man from Barbados.
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