“I Have to Leave to Be Me”
Discriminatory Laws against LGBT People in the Eastern Caribbean
![Jason (pseudonym), a 40-year-old gay man from Barbados.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201803lgbt_caribbean_main.jpg?itok=HP0_tRIs)
July 8, 2021
It is disappointing to observe the Saint Kitts and Nevis government’s refusal, once again, to accept the recommendations to decriminalize same-sex relations between consenting adults. Articles 56 and 57 of the Offences Against the Person Act punish so-called “buggery” and “abominable crimes” with up to ten years imprisonment and hard labor. They violate international human rights law and have a detrimental impact on the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
December 14, 2007
Discriminatory Laws against LGBT People in the Eastern Caribbean
Item 6 - Universal Periodic Review