The 71 Countri Where It's Still Illegal to Be Gay

Contents:

• WHERE GAY IS CRIMAL: THE DEFIVE GUI TO COUNTRI WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL
• THE 71 COUNTRI WHERE IT'S STILL ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL MANY COUNTRI. L.G.B.T.Q. TRAVELERS ARE GOG ANYWAY.
• 15 (SURPRISG) UNTRI WHERE ’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

WHERE GAY IS CRIMAL: THE DEFIVE GUI TO COUNTRI WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL

While India, the send largt untry the world, recently crimalized gay sex, homosexualy is still illegal roughly 71 other world untri. So as part of Hor’s efforts to #DecrimalizeLGBT, we’ve put together this quick and handy gui to untri where homosexualy is illegal (mostly bee of anti-sodomy laws). In this handy gui of untri where homosexualy is illegal, we’ve only clud untri wh laws on the books that imprison adult men for nsensual sex wh another adult male — ually forbidn unr the charg of sodomy, buggery, unnatural offens or crim agast nature.

It’s also important to pot out that untri whout anti-sodomy laws n still be tensely homophobic and vlent agast LGBTQ people. To unver the untri where homosexualy is illegal, we ed data om the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn 2017 report on State Sponsored Homophobia, the Kaleidospe Tst’s 2015 report on LGBTQ Rights Across the Commonwealth and Louis-Ge T’s encyclopedic volume The Dictnary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay & Lbian Experience. Countri where homosexualy is illegal: Algeria, Botswana, Bundi, Cameroon, Comoros, Errea, Ethpia, Gambia, Ghana, Guea, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mrania, Mri, Moroc, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

THE 71 COUNTRI WHERE IT'S STILL ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

Of Ai’s 54 untri, the bulk of them crimalize nsensual same-sex sexual enunters, mostly thanks to Brish-era lonial laws and Amerin evangelils like Stt Lively who export their homophobia abroad.

Ain policians often cry LGBTQ inty as a nt Wtern import even though gay sex and even same-sex marriage were prevalent many pre-lonial Ain trib. ” Many of the laws nflate homosexualy wh btialy and seven Ain untri allow police to e forced anal exams to “nfirm” spects’ homosexualy even though the exams are basilly jt a form of legalized rape that n’t actually nfirm the past occurrence of anal sex. ” LGBTQ victims the untri where homosexualy is illegal are hant to ever go to the police, lt they get thrown jail themselv jt for beg gay.

MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE

In Ethpia, prison sentenc for “homosexual acts” n be extend om three to 15 years if the nvicted person ed “ercn or trickery, ” transms an STI or if their partner later ms suici. In Algeria, anyone who ms a homosexual act or even posss or creat any image or meetg “ breach of mosty” n get two months to three years prison and a fe. In Nigeria, anyone who shows an imag of a same-sex enunter, hosts a gay club or attends a same-sex marriage n get 10 years prison.

“Serial offenrs” of “aggravated homosexualy, ” cludg HIV-posive people who try to get laid or who e alhol or dgs wh their sex partners, n go to prison for life.

Egypt is particularly onero bee while homosexualy isn’t illegal there, LGBTQ people are still arrted for a variety of offens such as “cement of cency, ” “sndalo act, ” “practicg cement to bchery” or even “propagatn, ” which means anythg that uld dispt “natnal uny or social peace. Countri where homosexualy is illegal: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Domi, Grenada, Guyana, Jamai, Sat Kts and Nevis, Sat Lucia, Sat Vcent and the Grenad, Tridad and Tobago.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

Thanks largely to Inquisn-era Spanish nquerors and Brish lonizers who implemented relig-based anti-sodomy laws pretty much everywhere they settled, numero Caribbean regns and the South Amerin untry of Guyana rema among the untri where homosexualy is illegal. Among the Caribbean untri where homosexualy is illegal, wtern media has largely foced on Jamai, cg the island natn’s numero human rights vlatns, health re discrimatn, vlent asslt, mob attacks and rrective rape agast LGBTQ cizens. Countri where homosexualy is illegal: Afghanistan, Banglash, Bhutan, Bnei Dassalam, Gaza, Indonia, Iran, Kuwa, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldiv, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Sdi Arabia, Sgapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uned Arab Emirat, Uzbekistan, Yemen.

Durg the 19th and 20th centuri, Brish and French lonial law stalled anti-gay laws throughout the Middle East, punishments for which were ma even harsher by the rise of Islamic fundamentalist clerics the 1980s and then by adly extra-ernmental ias durg the 21st century. Meanwhile, Islamic fundamentalism has fluenced other East Asian untri where homosexualy is illegal, leadg to harsh anti-LGBTQ laws there as well.

Sdi Arabia don’t have laws forbiddg same-sex sexual ntact, but strict Islamic Sharia law says men who have gay sex n be whipped or stoned to ath. So do Pakistan, Lebanon and Kuwa, though Lebanon and Pakistan both punish gay sex wh a year or two prison, rpectively.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

While Indonia isn’t technilly one of the untri where homosexualy is illegal, has begun a particularly harsh anti-LGBTQ crackdown of late, spe the fact that gay sex is only illegal s Aceh and Sumatra provc.

Durg the lonial age, 11 different wtern untri lonized var Oceanic islands, stallg siar brands of relig homophobia and toxic masculy and banishg same-sex practic to the cultural closet. Many Oceanic islands now allow charg for “attempted buggery, ” a vague term that allows queer men to be persecuted unr the imprsn that their actns nstute a possible attempt to have gay sex.

Samoa punish any attempt to m sodomy wh five years prison and, if you own a “place of rort for homosexual acts, ” you n get seven years prison.

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

16 stat, there are many plac the world that still punish dividuals for engagg any type of gay, lbian or bisexual relatnship.

BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL MANY COUNTRI. L.G.B.T.Q. TRAVELERS ARE GOG ANYWAY.

There is no punishment for Nilas Raymond / FlickrSame-sex relatnships aren't illegal Egypt, but the ernment laws that state "vlatn of honor by threat" and "practicg immoral and cent behavr" to nvict dividuals spect of engagg gay relatnships. For example, one young man was sentenced to 17 years prison for merely placg his profile on a gay datg relatnships are punishable by up to life prison Malaysia, same-sex relatnships are punishable by up to 20 years prison. It's still illegal to be LGBT+ 70 untri, and you uld be given the ath penalty 12, as the world marks 30 years sce “homosexualy” was classified as a disease.

15 (SURPRISG) UNTRI WHERE ’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT), May 17 marks the day the World Health Organisatn (WHO) classified “homosexualy” as a mental disorr. As the world reach 30 years sce beg gay was no longer an ternatnally signated disease, a map by an ternatnal LGBT anizatn shows remas illegal to be gay 70 untri.