Trinidad has gay cabinet ministers, a transgender senator, LGBTQ+ icons and national treasures.
The prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, vowed in her first term to "put an end to all discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation".
A Precedent for the Caribbean
The Privy Council set its own anti-discrimination precedent last year, upholding legislation legalising same-sex civil partnerships in the Cayman Islands after a similarly tortuous case brought by the couple Chantelle Day and Vickie Bodden Bush.
Rights organisations welcomed the finding as a positive break from a previous judgment denying same-sex marriage in Bermuda, which lawyers claimed placed the religious rights of the majority over those of a minority sexual orientation.
That case is now before the European Court of Human Rights.
The Privy Council's judgment, expected in September, will mark the end of a long fight for Jones. "I'm getting out of the cut and thrust of advocacy.
I've done my bit. I'll focus on developing programmes to train the next generation of Jason Joneses.
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Most activists turn to activism through desperation, not inspiration. I want to inspire," he said.
