Map Shows Where It’s Illegal To Be Gay – 30 Years Sce WHO Declassified Homosexualy As Disease

Contents:

• WHERE GAY IS CRIMAL: THE DEFIVE GUI TO COUNTRI WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL
• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
• MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
• MORE THAN 2.7 BILLN PEOPLE LIVE UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS A CRIME

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.

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

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. 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.

THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY

” 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.

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.

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

In Botswana, proposng someone of the same sex n get you five years prison — actual gay sex gets you seven.

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. Gambia, where laws are taken verbatim om Uganda’s “Anti-Homosexualy Act, ” punish gay oral sex wh 14 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.

MORE THAN 2.7 BILLN PEOPLE LIVE UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS A CRIME

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. 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.