According to the AP, the laws were almost never utilized, but they nonetheless symbolized a lack of equality for LGBTQ+ people.“The striking down of the laws reverses that and overnight tells the entire society that this is consensual contact and that what people choose to do with their private relationships is not the business of the law,” said Téa Braun, chief executive of the human rights organization Human Dignity Trust.Braun also said the ruling was part of a “tidal wave” of Caribbean nations that have decriminalized LGBTQ+ identities recently.“The dismantling of these laws is the first major step, but not the last step.”“We really take this win as a stepping stone to ensuring access to justice,” said Kenita Placide, the executive director of the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality, Inc., an organization that supported the two LGBTQ activists who filed the lawsuit.In August, a court for Saint Kitts and Nevis struck down two anti-LGBTQ+ sections of the Offenses Against the Person Act, which was imported from England with the colonization of the island nation and criminalized “unnatural offenses.” It carried a maximum penalty of 10 years with hard labor."