Maurice Tomlinson | |
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![]() Tomlinson in 2015 | |
Born | Montego Bay, Jamaica | 9 April 1971
Alma mater | University of the West Indies, University of Calgary, University of Turin |
Years active | 2003–present |
Awards | David Kato Vision & Voice Award 2012 |
Maurice Tomlinson (born 1971) is a Jamaican lawyer, law professor, and gay rights activist currently living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1] He has been a leading gay rights and HIV activist in the Caribbean for over 20 years and is one of the only Jamaican advocates to challenge the country's 1864 British colonially-imposed anti gay Sodomy Law (known as the Buggery Law). This law predominantly affects men who have sex with men (MSM) and carries a possible jail sentence of up to ten years imprisonment with hard labour.[2][3][4]