Court Declares St. Lucia’s Gay Sex Ban Unconstitutional

Michael Lavers reports at the Washington Blade:

The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court has declared provisions of the St. Lucia penal code that criminalize consensual same-sex sexual relations unconstitutional.

Saint Lucia, along with Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands and Montserrat fall under the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court’s jurisdiction. It sets legal precedents for the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States of which St. Lucia is a member.

Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, and Dominica in recent years have decriminalized consensual same-sex sexual relations.

Read the full article. Saint Lucia, population 180,000, gained independence from Britain in 1979 but remained within the British Commonwealth. Earlier this year, Trinidad and Tobago recriminalized homosexuality.

In another historic breakthrough for human rights in the Caribbean, the High Court of Saint Lucia yesterday struck down a discriminatory, colonial-era, criminal law that targeted #LGBT people. Saint Lucia now joins Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica and St Kitts & Nevis as the… pic.twitter.com/Vkq7R4olsO

— Human Dignity Trust (@HumanDignityT) July 30, 2025

The Eastern Caribbean Court says that Saint Lucia’s buggery and gross indecency laws are unconstitutional. pic.twitter.com/2Z0sE0hfpg

— Nelcia Charlemagne (@nelciathewriter) July 30, 2025

ECADE celebrates this historic win affirming the dignity of LGBTQ+ people in Saint Lucia, the fourth major victory in our regional legal challenge, following Antigua & Barbuda (June 2022), St. Kitts and Nevis (August 2022) , and Barbados (December 2022). pic.twitter.com/pOwaHhVYRs

— ECADE (@EC_Equality) July 29, 2025

The post Court Declares St. Lucia’s Gay Sex Ban Unconstitutional appeared first on Joe.My.God..