Gay rights around the world: the bt and worst untri for equaly | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• MORE THAN 2.7 BILLN PEOPLE LIVE UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS A CRIME
• MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
• COUNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY DEATH
• GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: THE BT AND WORST UNTRI FOR EQUALY
• 31 COUNTRI THAT ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE (+ 12 WHERE BEG GAY CARRI THE DEATH PENALTY)

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

After several weeks of fierce nmnatn by world lears, the sultanate announced wouldn’t enforce the ath penalty for people engagg homosexual acts.

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

Whether Bnei will keep s word remas to be seen, but the small untry on the island of Borneo near Malaysia is not the only natn where gay men and women are beg sentence for the crime of beg gay some untri is rooted the terpretatn of Sharia law, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn’s (ILGA) report on state-sponsored, which means “path, ” is not so much a legal system as a gui for helpg people fd life’s answers through Islam, as people unrstand acrdg to tradnal and early terpretatns. D., after the ath of the Prophet ath penalty for gay acts is rived om people’s terpretatns of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, and the Hadh, or the acunts of the saygs of the Prophet Muhammad.

An creasg number of Islamic scholars are re-examg what the two guis are teachg about same-sex Islamic untri mete out the ath penalty for crim other than homosexualy. On a more posive note, the are the untri where same sex marriage is officially intify the untri where beg gay is still legally punishable by ath, 24/7 Tempo reviewed var reports on human rights and homophobia by non-prof anizatns providg help and legal advice to mori, cludg members of the LGBTQ muny across the world. YemenIn Yemen, the law stat that unmarried gay men will be punished wh 100 whip lash or one year prison, but married gay men face ath by stong.

In 2007, then-Print of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadejad famoly said durg a vis to Columbia Universy: "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like your untry. In 2012, a newly adopted provisnal nstutn ma Somalia's terpretatn of Sharia law "the supreme law of the untry, " makg homosexualy a crime that n be punished by floggg or the ath penalty. The legal lgo n be terpreted as makg all male homosexual terurse a pal crime but n also mean that 's only for forced male homosexual terurse.

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

The untry's Penal Co stat that "rnal terurse agast the orr of nature" — which n mean homosexualy, even though 's not explicly mentned — is punishable by a fe and/or imprisonment om two years to life.

COUNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY DEATH

The penal the untry stipulat imprisonment for homosexualy, but the Islamic urts the southern regn impose strict sharia law which allows the ath penalty. While homosexualy is legal most of the world, the acceptance and equaly of the LGBT muny is not universal, and there are still great stris to be ma.

In the wake of Ameri's adlit mass shootg ever — at a gay nightclub Orlando on Sunday — we have updated our map of LGBT rights around the over the untri below to see which tegory each falls the map, we take a closer look at the 10 untri which homosexualy n be punishable by ath.

GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: THE BT AND WORST UNTRI FOR EQUALY

In others that we haven't clud, non-state actors who ntrol swaths of land eher summarily execute or sentence homosexuals to are the 10 untri where homosexualy may be punishable by ath:Yemen: Acrdg to the 1994 penal , married men n be sentenced to ath by stong for homosexual terurse. Women face up to seven years In acrdance wh sharia law, homosexual terurse between men n be punished by ath, and men n be flogged for lser acts such as kissg. Nigeria: Feral law classifi homosexual behavr as a felony punishable by imprisonment, but several stat have adopted sharia law and imposed a ath penalty for men.

A law signed early January mak illegal for gay people untrywi to hold a meetg or form Sharia law Qatar appli only to Mlims, who n be put to ath for extramaral sex, regardls of sexual Arabia: Unr the untry’s terpretatn of sharia law, a married man engagg sodomy or any non-Mlim who ms sodomy wh a Mlim n be stoned to ath. Afghanistan: The Afghan Penal Co do not refer to homosexual acts, but Article 130 of the Constutn allows reurse to be ma to sharia law, which prohibs same-sex sexual activy general.

Southern parts of the untry have adopted more lenient Arab Emirat: Lawyers the untry and other experts disagree on whether feral law prcrib the ath penalty for nsensual homosexual sex or only for rape.

31 COUNTRI THAT ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE (+ 12 WHERE BEG GAY CARRI THE DEATH PENALTY)

7 billn people live untri where beg gay is punishable by imprisonment, lash or even ath, new rearch obtaed by the Guardian stark figure om the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn (Ilga) highlights the discrimatn faced by gay people around the world; the full report shows there is not a sgle untry where LGBT people enjoy equal legal rights wh their heterosexual untri – Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen – still have a statutory ath penalty for homosexualy, while a further 71 untri punish same-sex upl wh lser sentenc of imprisonment or rporal total, 2. 79 billn people live untri where beg gay n lead to prison or ath – seven tim as many as live untri wh same-sex figur do, however, also highlight the progrs ma by equal rights groups wng new rights and protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people. Uganda stepped up prosecutns of people acced of beg gay relatnships, while Rsia's new law agast a gay "propaganda" law drew worldwi ire durg the Sochi Wter Uganda, where beg gay n lead to a lengthy prison sentence, a newspaper published the nam and photos of 14 men intified as homosexual.

Photograph: Marc Hofer/AFP/Getty ImagAt the same time, US urts even tradnally nservative stat have stck down bans on gay marriage, while equal marriage beme law the UK wh the support of all three major polil gay rights battl have received ls attentn: Kyrgyzstan, for example, is currently nsirg a gay propaganda law molled almost word-for-word on the Rsian ban, while Bnei is set to impose sharia law crimalisg homosexualy, which is attractg ternatnal prsure, cludg a threatened boytt om Elton untri face battl to extend gay rights.