A gay man has won a historic 10-year battle against Trinidad and Tobago’s homophobic laws with a landmark UK appeals court ruling that could help overturn similar anti-gay laws in other Caribbean countries.

The privy council, based in London, overturned a 2025 decision by Trinidad and Tobago’s court of appeal that recriminalised consensual anal sex, seven years after the Trinidadian activist Jason Jones secured a high court judgment declaring the country’s colonial-era “buggery” laws unconstitutional.

In explaining its ruling on Tuesday, the court said: “The ability to form a deep connection with another person through an intimate and loving relationship is a vital interest for all human beings.”

“This judgment will have a domino effect across every country that has the privy council as its supreme court.…