Barbados High Court on Monday he has declared the laws criminalizing same-sex sex in the country were unconstitutional, in a lawsuit filed by two supporters of the rights of the LGBT+ community, who were supported by some local organisations. One of the laws in question provided for a sentence of up to life imprisonment for people found responsible for having had homosexual sexual intercourse. The government could appeal the ruling, but Prime Minister Mia Mottley is considered to be in favor of the rights of the LGBT+ community and has already criticized and called for the abolition of these laws in the past.
Barbados is an island nation in the eastern Caribbean of nearly 300,000 inhabitants. Since last year it has become a republic, after the definitive removal of Queen Elizabeth II from the role of head of state and 396 years of reign of the British monarchy. This year it is the third Caribbean state to declare anti-homosexual laws unconstitutional: Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Kitts and Nevis had already done so before.
