Maurice Tomlinson (born 1971) is a Jamaican lawyer, law professor, and gay rights activist currently living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

However, he left the airline after only 6 months when his boss advised him to "stand in front of a mirror, try to act more macho and deepen his voice" because passengers had complained that he was gay.

[6] In 2006, he started working as a corporate lawyer and left after a year and a half to become the project manager in the Office of the Principal of the University of West Indies.

[8] In 2009, Tomlinson began teaching human rights and discrimination law at the University of Technology, Jamaica and also became Legal Advisor, Marginalized Groups for the international NGO, AIDS-Free World.

[11][16] Since 2008, Tomlinson has therefore been working with local and international partners to increase the visibility of Jamaican LGBTI people in order to improve their access to health care and specifically HIV services.

[22][23] Tomlinson also travels around the Caribbean for the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network providing human rights documentation and advocacy training for groups working with LGBTI individuals.

Speaking to PinkNews in London after a lecture to mark the 2014 International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, Tomlinson challenged Jamaica's Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller, for putting aside the issue of the country's anti-sodomy law and not carrying on with it as she had promised in her election campaign.

[24][33] On 17–18 March 2015, the challenge was heard[34][35] with allegations that the immigration bans abridge the rights of free movement for Caribbean citizens contained in the Treaty of Chaguaramas.

[36] Dwayne Jones, a 16-year-old transgender youth was beaten, stabbed, shot and run over by a mob when she arrived at a street party dressed in female clothes.

[38] In 2013, Tomlinson became a founding member of Dwayne's House, Jamaica's first charity which focuses exclusively on providing food and basic services to homeless LGBTI youth who have been forced to live in the sewers of the capital, Kingston.

[42] Decker was the LGBT liaison officer for the Toronto Police Service,[43] and he and Tomlinson met in 2010 at an International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) World Conference.

[47] His work has since been featured in a documentary, The Abominable Crime, which describes the struggle with homophobia in Jamaica and efforts being made to challenge this seemingly intractable problem.