Cross-dressing in Guyana: Is the Supreme Court Courageous?
Cross-dressing lawsuit more than just about clothes
By Antoine Craigwell
http://blogs.alternet.org/antbern/2010/02/25/cross-dressing-in-guyana-is-the-supreme-court-courageous/It is on the eve of the celebration of Guyana's 40th Anniversary as a republic, that Quincy McEwan, Seon Clarke, Joseph Fraser, Seyon Persaud, and the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination filed suit in the Supreme Court to have Section 153(1)(xlvii) of the Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Act, Chapter 8:02, declared as irrational, discriminatory, undemocratic, contrary to the rule of law and unconstitutional. In effect, they have issued a challenge to the Guyana's colonial era laws.
