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• MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
• 15 (SURPRISG) UNTRI WHERE ’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• 15 (SURPRISG) UNTRI WHERE ’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• 15 (SURPRISG) UNTRI WHERE ’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL AROUND WORLD

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

At least 73 untri have laws that crimalize same-sex massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando ma clear: Basic legal rights are no guarantee of safety. Seventy-three untri, or 37 percent of the Uned Natns, clare same-sex physil relatns illegal, acrdg to a prehensive survey of sexual orientatn laws om the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA), Iran, Sdi Arabia, and Yemen ll for the ath penalty natnwi for same-sex relatns, the report says, while other plac n impose ath penalti regnally, along wh f and prison sentenc. In Florida, a new measure dubbed the “Pastor Protectn Act” allows clergy to refe to perform gay marriag.

The news has sparked ternatnal outrage, and lls for a boytt of the Bnei-owned Dorchter Hotel cha, but has also shed a spotlight on the realy that homosexualy and genr-nonnformg inti remas illegal dozens of untri all over the world. "Acrdg to ILGA, an ternatnal lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex advocy group, there are 70 U.

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

Member natns, Palte and the Cook Islands, as well as Indonia, "where a large provce and some ci outlaw homosexual acts. An Indonian man is ned public om an executor known as 'algojo' for havg gay sex, which is agast Sharia law on May 23, 2017 Banda Aceh, Indonia. While many untri that crimalize homosexualy have reputatns as reprsive regim, others are popular tourist statns wh Amerins unaware of the human-rights vlatns gog on beyond their rort walls:.

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

(In Malaysia, where those nvicted face rporal punishment and up to 20 years prison, travel mister Mohamadd Ketapi recently sisted "I don't thk we have anythg like that our untry, " reference to gay people. A strong global movement has improved rpect for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people around the world. In some untri, law enforcement agenci aggrsively pursue and prosecute people spected of beg lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.

The UAE has ed this law to prosecute gay and transgenr people even mixed-genr spac. Angola January 2019 issued a new penal that no longer penaliz homosexual sex. homosexual acts.

However, laws crimalizg beg gay rema a realy for one-third of untri worldwi. Try FROM FORBESAn Edor Told Me To 'Stop Pchg Gay Stori' - This Is What I DidBy Jamie Wareham.

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

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

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. The data prented this map is based on State-Sponsored Homophobia, an ILGA World report by Lus... The ILGA State-Sponsored Homophobia Report, released December 2019 and updated for IDAHOBIT 2020.

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. As Sgapore's Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong announced on Sunday that the untry will repeal a lonial-era law crimalizg sex between men, LGBTQ+ rights activists the untry celebrated a long-sought law, which did not apply to women, had not been enforced over 15 years, but s long-standg prence ntributed to stigmatizg and discrimatg agast gay men Sgapore, activists said.

WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL AROUND WORLD

This map urty of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersexual Associatn (ILGA) shows sexual orientatn laws across the world. "Dpe creased acceptance the past two s of LGBTQ+ rights around the world, there have also been backlash and setbacks many untri—and 67 natns part of the Uned Natns, homosexualy is still persecuted as a Countri Where It's Illegal to Be GayA map produced by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersexual Associatn (ILGA) 2020, seen above, shows the untri where homosexualy is still the report was published, Bhutan and Antigua and Barbuda crimalized nsensual same-sex sexual relatns between adults, rpectively, 2021 and half of the untri where homosexualy is still crimalized are Ai.

Member stat listed above —Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Nigeria (12 northern stat only), Sdi Arabia and Yemen—ILGA has full legal certaty that homosexualy rri the ath penalty. Tridad and Tobago reversed laws crimalizg gay sex 2018, while 2019 Botswana's urt of appeal voted to uphold a lg that said that crimalizg homosexualy was Febary 2021, Angola's Print Joao Louren approved a revisn of the penal allowg same-sex relatnships and banng discrimatn on the basis of sexual repealed a law crimalizg homosexualy which ma gay sex punishable wh six months prison and a large fe June of that same December 2021, Chile approved a bill makg same-sex marriage legal as well as allowg same-sex upl to adopt, while Swzerland troduced marriage equaly July 2022.