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GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: THE BT AND WORST UNTRI FOR EQUALY

<p><strong>Eme Saner: </strong>Equal marriage laws are beg passed several untri, but Rsia, life grows harsher each month for LGBT people. Which plac are bt and worst for gay rights?</p> * worst countries for lgbt rights *

As of 2022, six untri' legal s specifilly prcribe the ath penalty for the "crime" of homosexualy and another five untri allow for the possibily of the ath penalty. LGBT and LGBTQ+ have several addnal variatns, cludg LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA+, and 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual, wh the + reprentg pansexual, agenr, genr queer, bigenr, genr variant, and pangenr). Two of the most notable advancements LGBTQI+ rights the US recent s are the legalizatn of gay marriage and the legalizatn of adoptn of children by same-sex upl.

Gay marriage legalizatn expand om one state 2004 to all fifty stat 2015 through feral urt lgs, state urt lgs, state legislatn, and direct popular vot. Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn's annual report State-Sponsored Homophobia, same-sex nduct was crimalized 67 of the Uned Natns' 193 member stat 2020 and was facto illegal two more. Moreover, another five untri have laws which are ls specific the outlawg and sentencg of homosexualy, but which leave the ath penalty available.

2022's iendlit natn for LGBTQ+ travelers is Canada, the first untry outsi of Europe (and the fourth untry the world) to legalize gay marriage, which did on July 20, 2005.

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Azerbaijan, Turkey and Armenia are the worst untri Europe for LGBTI rights, acrdg to a new asssment om the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn. * worst countries for lgbt rights *

Another of the world's most gay-iendly untri, Swen has legalized both marriage and adoptn for same-sex upl, stalled anti-discrimatn protectns for both genr inty and sexual orientatn, end nstutnal protectns agast discrimatn, and crimalized vlence agast LGBTQ+ people. Individuals arrted for homosexual nduct are often subjected to addnal mistreatment, om torture and forced anal exams by shady law enforcement officials to oversized sentenc or extend pre-trial rceratn that n last for years. The unmarried men who engage this activy are liable to one year prison and 100 lash while the married men who engage homosexualy are put to ath by stong.

A person nvicted of homosexual activi may also be charged for mtg adultery if they have a spoe of the oppose sex but are havg sexual relatns wh someone of the same sex. We have a US print who supports gay marriage, and now a pope who, if not exactly signg up to equaly for all, is at least startg to talk language ls flammatory than his precsor. In Rsia, gay teenagers are beg tortured and forcibly outed on the ter agast a backdrop of laws that look pletely out of step wh the rt of Europe.

In what is beg scribed as rollg the "stat of LGBT [lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr] people back to the Stal era", Print Put has passed a number of anti-gay laws, cludg legislatn that punish people and groups that distribute rmatn nsired "propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns". It has led to the boytt of Rsian vodka brands by gay bars and clubs solidary, started by wrer and activist Dan Savage and taken up by bars many Ain untri where homosexualy is already illegal, more dranian anti-gay laws are beg passed and vlence agast LGBT people is there a lk between growg rights some untri and worseng or removal of rights others?