Jones tells religious leaders: Get out of our bedrooms

DECLARING that Trinidad and Tobago is a “callaloo nation” that must embrace all its citizens, LGBT+ rights activist Jason Jones says the time has come for sweeping constitutional and legislative reforms to end discrimination and guarantee equality for all.

Fresh from his historic Privy Council victory decriminalising same-sex intercourse between consenting adults in Trinidad and Tobago, Jones is calling on the Government to urgently overhaul the Constitution, remove the controversial savings law clause and amend legislation that denies the LGBT+ community equal protection under the law.

“Trinidad and Tobago is a callaloo nation. We embrace everybody, and it’s finally time that LGBTQ+ people be embraced as well,” Jones told the Express in a telephone interview yesterday.