LGBTQ Activist welcomes ruling on buggery laws

Transgender woman Washington Bramble has welcomed a decision of the High Court to regarding Antigua and Barbuda’s Buggery Laws.

She said: “This is a victory years in the making. Next step, gender identity legislation and hate crime legislation.

To our heterosexual community, this is a victory for you, as our law also criminalized anal sex between a CIS man and a CIS woman.”

The Court in St. John’s today ruled that Sections 12 and 15 of the Sexual Offences Act was unconstitutional.

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High Court rules Antigua and Barbuda’s buggery law contravenes Constitutional rights of citizens

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