Many the US are celebratg LGBTQ rights for Gay Pri Month. But data show that most untri, cludg the US, need to do much more to protect sexual mori.
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- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- TOP 13 COUNTRI WH BIGGT GAY POPULATNS
- GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI / GLBTQ+ FRIENDLY COUNTRI 2023
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Equalx is a llaborative knowledge base for the LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) movement, visualizg LGBTQ+ rights through maps, timel, and data. * gay score country *
Equalx's Equaly Inx is a ratg om 0 to 100 (wh 100 beg the most equal) to help visualize the legal rights and public attus towards LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex... The LGBT legal x measur the current legal stat of 13 different issu rangg om the legal stat of homosexualy, same-sex marriage, transgenr rights, LGBT discrimatn protectns, LGBT censorship laws, and more.
TOP 13 COUNTRI WH BIGGT GAY POPULATNS
In a global survey nducted 2023, three percent of rponnts clared to be homosexual, gay, or lbian. * gay score country *
Each topic is assigned a "total possible sre" and a "sre" is assigned based the stat of the law g a ratg sle that rang om 0% to 100% (for example, if homosexualy is legal, would would receive a sre of 100, but if 's illegal, would receve a sre of 0. Homosexual activy100Legal×1.
00Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned×0.
GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI / GLBTQ+ FRIENDLY COUNTRI 2023
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Especially more nservative regns, surveys are ually limed to homosexualy or same-sex marriage. 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).
As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world. * gay score country *
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.
In other untri, homosexualy is technilly legal, but promotn of "nontradnal sexual relatns", whether by anizatns or dividuals, is illegal. Moreover, another five untri have laws which are ls specific the outlawg and sentencg of homosexualy, but which leave the ath penalty available.