A decade-long legal battle led by LGBT+ Trinidadian activists successfully ended as Trinidad and Tobago's highest court overturned a long-running law criminalising gay sex. The UK-based final court of appeal for British dependencies and overseas territories issued a unanimous decision Tuesday that the 1986 Sexual Offences Act could not be used to prosecute private, consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex. Seen as a landmark ruling for LGBT+ rights in the Caribbean, this law had previously carried sentences of two years for "serious indecency" and five years for "buggery".
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