Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, Caribbean travel magnate who founded Sandals, dies at 79

Mr. Stewart ran into serious controversy in the 1990s when, with the gay rights movement blossoming, he was attacked for his no-gay policy at Sandals resorts. The initial policy, from 1981, was that Sandals resorts, starting with the first one at Montego Bay, would be for “couples (heterosexuals) only.” At the time, homosexuality was still illegal in Jamaica.