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- HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
- COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
- MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
- THE COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL [MAP]
HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry. * gay marriage illegal countries *
Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Kamala Harris has been a vol supporter of LGBTQ rightsUS Vice-Print Kamala Harris who is on a tour of three Ain untri - Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia - has drawn cricism over her support for LGBTQ Ghana, a speech llg for "all people be treated equally" she appeared to cricise a bill before the untry's parliament which crimalis advocy for gay rights and propos jail terms for those that intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or untry's Speaker Alban Bagb later lled her remarks "unmocratic" and urged lawmakers not to be "timidated by any person" Tanzania, a former mister spoke agast US support for LGBTQ rights ahead of the vis and Zambia some opposn policians have threatened to hold is homosexualy still outlawed? In the same month, the high urt Barbados stck out laws that crimalised gay July last year, the urts Antigua and Barbuda clared a law crimalisg same-sex acts between nsentg adults Febary 2021, Angola's Print Joao Louren signed to law a revised penal to allow same-sex relatnships and ban discrimatn on the basis of sexual 2020, Gabon reversed a law that had crimalised homosexualy and ma gay sex punishable wh six months prison and a large fe.
COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
Sgapore jt repealed a lonial-era law crimalizg gay sex, but there are still 67 untri where homosexualy is illegal. * gay marriage illegal countries *
Botswana's High Court also led favour of crimalisg homosexualy 2019. Mozambique and the Seychell have also scrapped anti-homosexualy laws recent there are untri where existg laws outlawg homosexualy have been tightened, cludg Nigeria and 's parliament recently passed a law to crack down on homosexual activi, promptg wispread source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Campaign agast LGBTQ rights some Ain untri has tensified recent weeksAnd some untri, efforts to get the laws removed have May 2019, the high urt Kenya upheld laws crimalisg homosexual acts.
MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
Gay sex is no longer as wily crimalized as ed to be, but a total of 73 natns still have laws agast . They're listed below, wh lks to news verage. * gay marriage illegal countries *
In Febary his year Kenya's hight urt led that was wrong for thori to ban the gay muny om registerg a rights anisatn.
THE COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL [MAP]
But strsed that gay sex remas illegal.
Colonial legacyMany of the laws crimalisg homosexual relatns origate om lonial tim. And many plac, breakg the laws uld be punishable by long prison of the 53 untri the Commonwealth - a loose associatn of untri most of them former Brish loni - 29 have laws that crimalise homosexualy.
Although the origal Brish laws applied only to men, untri that crimalise homosexualy today also have penalti for women who have sex wh Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (Ilga) monors the progrs of laws relatg to homosexualy around the says the ath penalty is the legally prcribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and some northern stat of five untri - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, and the Uned Arab Emirat - there is no legal clary and the ath penalty uld be source, AFPImage ptn, An Indian gay rights activist protts agast a urt lg 2013 upholdg a law which crimalis gay repealed the ath penalty for nsensual same-sex sexual acts observers note that the risk of prosecutn some plac is mimal.