LGBTQ Caribbean activists decades-long challenges against countries to gain equality are lining up in multiple courts, creating a potential tidal wave ushering in queer rights for the region.
At least 11 legal challenges are in various stages of the judicial process, with some cases facing high courts in a make-or-break moment for the Caribbean s LGBTQ movement.
Next week, the Privy Council in the United Kingdom is expected to release rulings for two of the region s most anticipated cases addressing same-sex marriage in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
The Jamaican Supreme Court s March 8 hearing on same-sex marriage was postponed, said gay Jamaican activist and attorney Maurice Tomlinson. A new date has not been set. Tomlinson s decriminalization case against Jamaica s government has been heard once at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, in November 2019. The commission has been quiet since then.
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