Love is Love
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6015410 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Kerrigan (0000-0003-2453-9804, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 125-129 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Legal Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1758-9584 • E-ISSN: 1758-9576 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/jla.2018.020111 |
| OpenAlex | W2901683974 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Trinidad and Tobago’s anti-gay laws can be traced back to British colonialism and European imperialism. Their existence today and their consequences for human lives in Trinidad and Tobago during the past one hundred years are a local entanglement of historic global hierarchies of power. On 12 April 2018, in the High Court of Port of Spain, capital of Trinidad and Tobago, Justice Devindra Rampersad, in a form of judicial activism, trod where local politicians have not dared and intervened in such coloniality by delivering a legal judgement upholding the challenge by Jason Jones to the nineteenth-century colonial laws in Trinidad and Tobago that criminalise homosexual relations and same-sex loving
Ancient history · Capital (architecture · Colonialism · Economic Justice · Judgement · Political science · Port (circuit theory · Power (physics · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · History · Law · Sex work and related issues
| Highly cited | No |
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