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• WHERE ARE THE MOST DIFFICULT PLAC THE WORLD TO BE GAY OR TRANSGENR?
• THE 15 WORST UNTRI TO BE GAY EUROPE
• THE WORST (AND BT) PLAC TO BE GAY AMERI
• POLAND STILL WORST UNTRY TO BE GAY THE EU: REPORT
• GLOBALLY, SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS IS GROWG
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• FROM RSIA TO SDI ARABIA: WHAT ARE THE WORST COUNTRI FOR GAY RIGHTS?
• 15 MOST DANGERO COUNTRI FOR GAY TRAVELERS
• LATVIA, LHUANIA AND POLAND WORST UNTRI TO BE GAY EU

WHERE ARE THE MOST DIFFICULT PLAC THE WORLD TO BE GAY OR TRANSGENR?

And although adult nsensual sexual activy is nsired a basic human right across the world, homosexualy is outlawed about 80 untri. Even untri such as the Uned Stat where there is no legal barrier to homosexualy, hate crim agast the LGBT muny is very high some areas.

Beg a Mlim untry, homosexualy is wily nsired a taboo and often lked wh prostutn. Homosexualy is nsired a vlatn of Sharia Laws and is punishable by long imprisonment. Homosexualy is punishable by 100 lash and five years imprisonment while third offenrs are liable to life imprisonment or ath.

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. Acrdg to the Amnty Internatnal, over 5, 000 Iranian lbians and gays have been killed sce 1979. Th, homosexuals are enuraged to sex reassignment surgery to avoid legal and social persecutn.

THE 15 WORST UNTRI TO BE GAY EUROPE

Transgenrism and homosexualy are nsired immoral and cent activi which are punishable by f, torture, prison, or ath. It do not regnize same-sex unns or domtic partnership and those who are found to be gay or homosexual are liable to life imprisonment. The tough laws and discrimatn agast homosexualy make LGBT almost visible.

Acrdg to a survey nducted by Pew Global Attu Project 2017, 97% of Nigerians are of the opn that homosexualy should not be entertaed the untry.

The ernment of Rsia is openly anti-LGBT and is currently craftg a homophobic law that will disurage public display non-heterosexual activi. The law propos jail terms to those who publicly display their homosexual tennci and genr inty. In Chechnya, homosexuals are abducted then sent to ncentratn mps based on their sexual orientatn.

THE WORST (AND BT) PLAC TO BE GAY AMERI

The ernment has also not taken any actn agast any group like Occupy Pedophile that openly torture gay men and post the vios onle. 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.

In 2005, 26 young men were sentenced to five years prison Abu Dhabi for engagg homosexual activi.

Mrians are not allowed to change genr nor serve the ary if one is openly homosexual.

POLAND STILL WORST UNTRY TO BE GAY THE EU: REPORT

Where are the most dangero plac the world to be lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT)?

Iraq“It pends on what part of the untry you are – but two words I’d scribe Iraq as ‘not safe’ for LGBT people, ” says Amir Ashour, Iraq’s only openly gay activist, explag that ’s not jt the threat om Islamic State Mosul and Hawija.

GLOBALLY, SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS IS GROWG

”Attacks on gay dividuals unr Isis have been wily reported, but Iraq’s systematic killg mpaigns of gay dividuals pre-date the terror group and ntue to this day. IranIran’s lears scribe homosexualy as “moral bankptcy” or “morn wtern barbarism”. Amnty Internatnal timat that 5, 000 gays and lbians have been executed there sce the 1979 Iranian revolutn.

The threat of blackmail is now a huge problem for gay men, explas Saghi Ghahraman, founr of the Iranian Queer Organizatn. This is bee Iran’s plex laws around homosexualy mean that men face different punishments for nsensual sexual terurse, pendg whether they are the “active” or the “passive” participant.

This also creat an atmosphere for monstrate agast the suatn Iran durg the 2010 Christopher Street Day gay pri para Berl. It’s a double edged sword for some the LGBT muny though – the operatns have bee a ntroversial solutn for gay men tryg to rencile their fah wh their sexualy and the ernment ref to regnise transgenr people who don’t want surgery. In 2014, the Ugandan ernment attempted to troduce the ntroversial Anti-Homosexualy Act, which at first clud a provisn for the ath penalty.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

It would go on to be clared unnstutnal Uganda’s urts, but the damage was done, and homophobic vlence had been legimised. People were outed Ugandan newspapers, one published a list of “top 200 homosexuals”, spe knowg that revealg LGBT people’s inti uld lead to them beg killed. But Put’s ernment is openly anti-gay, and is discsg another homophobic law, which propos jailg people for public displays of non-heterosexual orientatn or genr 2013 Copenhagen gay pri para was dited to Rsia’s LGBT muny.

FROM RSIA TO SDI ARABIA: WHAT ARE THE WORST COUNTRI FOR GAY RIGHTS?

Nor has any actn been taken to shut down groups that openly go after LGBT people, such as Occupy Pedophilia, a natnal work of Rsians who torture gay men, and then post hugely popular vios of their acts onle.

EgyptEgypt is wily regard as beg the biggt jailer of gay men – the New York Tim timated at least 250 LGBT people have been arrted sce 2013 while LGBT blog 76 crim timat that that number uld be closer to gay or transgenr is not illegal Egypt, but ever sce the ary phed out the print Mohamed Morsi 2013, the thori have engaged a crackdown on the LGBT muny, imprisong them on the charge of “bchery”, which wh a jail term of up to 17 years. Tradnal meetg spots are creasgly unsafe, and sce 2014 gay datg apps such as Grdr have been warng their Egyptian ers that “police may be posg as LGBT on social media to entrap you” have been known to ve journalists and meramen along on raids; those ught may be outed to the whole untry, even if arrted by mistake.

15 MOST DANGERO COUNTRI FOR GAY TRAVELERS

In 2014 26 men were filmed as they were arrted naked and acced by a TV prenter of leavg a homosexual brothel. Relativ of 26 men who were arrted a televised raid by police lookg for gays at a Cairo public bathhoe, celebrate after an Egyptian urt acquted them Cairo. Photograph: Amr Nabil/APNigeriaOf the people terviewed for the ILGA-RIWI Global Attus Survey on LGBTI People (pdf), 51% said they “strongly agreed” wh the statement “beg lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr should be a crime” makg the most homophobic untry of the 45 untry threatens 14 year prison sentenc for homosexual acts, and unr a law passed 2013, any Nigerian who belongs to a gay anisatn n also be liable for a 10 year jail term.

The top 15 worst untri to be gay EuropeShow all 15The most LGBTI-iendly European natns were Malta, Belgium and the four years at the top of the Rabow Europe list, the UK has fallen to third, a year after movg down to ILGA's Rabow Europe list is an annual review of 49 European untri, ranked on a sle between 0 per cent (untri wh gross vlatns of human rights and discrimatn) and 100 per cent (untri which show rpect of human rights and full equaly)'s the most ridiculo thg you've been asked about LGBT relatnships? Dpe Tmp’s happy mpaign talk about how fond he was of gays (and, Tmp beg Tmp, how fond they were of him), his rerd as print has been hurtful and hateful. Plenty of the people he pulled to his bet have long histori of pronounced opposn to gay rights.

We’re at the mercy of our ZIP s: Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people are often affected most by their municipaly, not their state. He told me about Piyune, Miss., where an 86-year-old gay man passed away last year, leavg behd his 82-year-old hband. Such a small thg — and yet so credibly big for many gay upl nservative environments and even for some upl more liberal areas that n nohels seem threateng.

LATVIA, LHUANIA AND POLAND WORST UNTRI TO BE GAY EU

22, gay, Laramie, near where Matthew Shepard was fatally beaten a gay-related hate crime 1998. (Only 22 stat have such laws erng all gay and lbian workers, both the public and the private sectors, while only 20, cludg New York, have them for transgenr workers as well. I n’t thk of a sgle stance when anyone has been weird or I’ve had to nont any kd of homophobia.

Acquatanc who learn or know that he’s gay don’t register any surprise or signal any disapproval. “I don’t take this for granted, ” he add, notg that he grew up Kansas and knows gay men ci ls smopolan than New York.

In May, unr the aegis of “relig eedom, ” s ernor signed a law that allowed taxpayer-fund adoptn agenci to ny the placement of children hom wh gay parents. Watch Frank Bni's Facebook Live wh Tommy Starlg and Patricia Todd about their experienc as gay people nservative stat. The report ranks European untri based on a review of laws and polici affectg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people.