Session: A Different Pride Origin Story: strategic litigation as the spark that led to the creation of Pride in Trinidad & Tobago
Time: 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2026
Location: 1.2 - Mendes da Costazaal
Track: InterPride & Pride Connections
Description
Most Pride movements begin with a march. In Trinidad and Tobago, it began with a courtroom. When Jason Jones won his landmark 2018 High Court victory decriminalising same-sex intimacy, he didn't just change the law — he cracked open a door that a community stepped through. In this session, Jason shares the inside story of how a single legal battle became the unlikely spark for Pride in T&T: the organising that followed, the risks people took to show up, and what it means to build a movement in a country where visibility itself is an act of defiance. A reminder that Pride was never just a party — it was always, first, a fight.