17 Stat Where Gay Sex Is Outlawed

Contents:

• SODOMY LAWS THAT LABELED GAY PEOPLE SEX OFFENRS CHALLENGED URT
• WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY?
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL: LIFE PRISON FOR SAYG YOU'RE GAY
• THE 71 COUNTRI WHERE IT'S STILL ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• WHERE GAY IS CRIMAL: THE DEFIVE GUI TO COUNTRI WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL
• THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

SODOMY LAWS THAT LABELED GAY PEOPLE SEX OFFENRS CHALLENGED URT

Image source, Getty ImagMillns of people ntue to live plac that outlaw same-sex relatnships and prosecute people for beg gay. In five untri and parts of two others, homosexualy is still punishable wh the ath penalty, while a further 70 imprison cizens bee of their sexual where homosexualy is legal, many untri treat those same-sex relatnships differently, such as havg an unequal age of nsent or a ban on marriage.

WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY?

In Rsia, host of the Sochi Wter Olympics, a law banng the promotn of "non-tradnal" sexualy to unr-18s was troduced last, where is illegal to be gay?

In many plac where anti-discrimatn laws exist, gay people ntue to be persecuted by state thori and wir society. Decrimalisg beg gayImage source, Getty ImagDurg the last 200 years, an creasg number of untri have crimalised same-sex relatnships. Nigeria, which already bans gay relatnships, also recently outlawed same-sex marriag, gay groups and shows of same-sex public affectn.

Olympic host Rsia also troduced ntroversial legislatn June that prcrib f for anyone givg rmatn about homosexualy to people unr 18.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

Legal stat of homosexualy: 1789-2014In 1789, the timele's startg pot, homosexualy was illegal 126 untri.

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

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. 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.

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

In Febary his year Kenya's hight urt led that was wrong for thori to ban the gay muny om registerg a rights anisatn. 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.

For example, a 2017 report on Jamai by the UK Home Office said that Jamai was regard as a homophobic society, but that the "thori do not actively seek to prosecute LGBT persons". Activist groups say the abily of lbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) anisatns to rry out advocy work is beg rtricted.

UGANDA ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY BILL: LIFE PRISON FOR SAYG YOU'RE GAY

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. 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.

The map by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn shows that only 65% of those livg UN untri around the world n now be, legally, nsensual same-sex relatnships. Dpe wispread nmnatn and scientific evince that gay nversn therapy do not work, the cel torture is only illegal four untri across the world. Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissner for Human Rights, has regnised the "crease homophobic and transphobic rhetoric" durg the panmic.

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

My wner this year is Maddie Benr, a recent Yale graduate (the panmic layed our trip) — and wh that, I’m handg the rt of the lumn over to Maddie BenrFREETOWN, Sierra Leone — When Abdul was a teenager and g to terms wh beg gay, he was attacked by a group of men. They mocked him wh homophobic slurs and asslted him wh broken beer bottl, slicg his thumb reported the attack to the police and was told that an arrt uld be ma — of him, for Leone is one of more than 30 Ain natns (over half the ntent) that crimalize same-sex relatns. While most of the gay people I spoke wh there did not seem to fear beg arrted, they said discrimatn agast them was wispread hog, employment and fay life.

People still suffer danger and discrimatn Ameri, travelg wh Nick Wt Ai offered a wdow to the immense adversy queer people experience here — and their rilience and urage the face of Ai is not uniformly homophobic, and I found some physil and virtual space emergg for L. “Sexualy is ee, ” the untry’s prime mister, Patrice Trovoada, told me, addg that his untry, “you don’t have this hate attu” toward gay, ’s plited. Although people were happy to talk about homosexualy when I asked, most said they’d never enuntered a gay person.

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

A 2020 review of Ains’ attus toward homosexualy suggts that equent ter ers are more likely to be tolerant of gay teenagers the cy of Makeni northern Sierra Leone, Fatmata Bta Jalloh, 17, and Marie Kamara, 16, told me that while they believe homosexualy don’t exist their untry, they’ve seen plenty of gay people onle.

People — but after talkg to people like Fatmata and Marie, I spect that our greatt tool for makg change is soft should be outraged by how far the Christian right has gone to support the persecutn of gay people Ain untri. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.

THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St.

”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.