New rearch lays bare discrimatn faced by gay people – not a sgle untry do they enjoy equal rights as heterosexuals
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
Gay sex is no longer as wily crimalized as ed to be, but a total of 73 natns still have laws agast . They're listed below, wh lks to news verage. * countries where being gay is a crime *
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.
13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
Sgapore jt repealed a lonial-era law crimalizg gay sex, but there are still 67 untri where homosexualy is illegal. * countries where being gay is a crime *
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.
THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
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.
MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
” 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.
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 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.