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Judgment of the Kenyan Court of Appeal upholding an earlier decision that a LGBT organisation should be allowed to register as a national NGO.

Case digest of the Supreme Court of India decision which found that the criminalisation of same-sex activity is unconstitutional.

Ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice that a law in Guyana, which makes it a criminal offence for a man or a woman to appear in a public place while dressed in clothing of the opposite sex for an “improper purpose”, is unconstitutional.

Judgment of the Supreme Court of India which found that the criminalisation of same-sex activity is unconstitutional.

Judgment of the Supreme Court of India on the protection of the right to privacy under the Constitution of India. Crucially, the Court recognised that “sexual orientation is an essential attribute of privacy.” The Court was also explicitly critical of the approach previously adopted by the Court in Suresh Koushal v. Naz Foundation (2013), which had in effect re-criminalised private, consensual same-sex sexual activity.

Judgment of Trinidad and Tobago’s High Court, in the case of Jones v. Attorney General, finding in favour of the claimant that the sections of the Sexual Offences Act which prohibited “buggery” and “serious indecency” between two men and criminalised consensual same-sex activity between adults, are unconstitutional.