Contents:
- WHERE GAY IS CRIMAL: THE DEFIVE GUI TO COUNTRI WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL
- MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
- HOW MANY UNTRI IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY 2019?
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. 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. In Rsia‘s Chechen Republic, for example, gay men are often taed unr tmped-up dg charg.
MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
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.
HOW MANY UNTRI IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY 2019?
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. ” 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 Nigeria, gay sex wh a 14-year prison sentence; Zambia, ’s 15 years. 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.