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THE 20 MOST AND LEAST GAY-IENDLY UNTRI THE WORLD

It jt got a ltle b better to be gay the US. But what about the rt of the world? A recent study shows which untri have gay pri and which close their doors to the LGBT muny * most gay unfriendly countries *

A new report om the Pew Rearch Center asked people 39 different untri one qutn: "Should society accept homosexualy? " The 37, 653 who took part the survey rpond wh "Y, " "No, " or cled to untri wh the hight percentage of "Y" or "No" vot show which untri are the most and least tolerant of the survey certaly leav out some of the world's most and least gay-iendly natns, a trend do surface wh the data.

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The LGBTQ+ Travel Safety Inx ranks the world’s most dangero untri for gay travelers 2021. * most gay unfriendly countries *

Gay uple Kai and Michael Korok and their dghter Jana, 4, attend the openg of Germany's first gay parent unselg center on March 15, 2013 Berl, Germany. Two men kiss durg a monstratn support of the legalisatn of gay marriage and LGBT parentg France at the Plaza Francia Buenos Air, on January 27, 2013. Italian gay rights supporters take part a ceremony to prott agast an creasg number of homophobic attacks throughout Italy ont of Rome's Colossm, on September 4, 2009.

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Supporters take part an annual gay pri march llg for equal rights for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people Manila on December 3, 2011. People leave after listeng to a statement livered by Mlim relig lears at Cheikh Oumar Foutiyou Tall mosque Dakar on April 29, 2009 cricizg the liberatn on April 20 of 9 men allegedly jailed on charg of homosexualy and announced the creatn of Islamic ont for the fence Islamic valu. A man looks on December 11, 2012 at an advertisg by mpaign group Avaaz the state-owned Ugandan newspaper The New Visn, prottg agast an anti-homosexualy bill.

A member of Hizbuth Tahrir Indonia attends a prott agast sexual viant acts which they believe to be acts such as homosexualy, bisexualy, loose sexual morals, and transgenr, Jakarta on December 1, 2010. In Kenya, homosexualy is regard as a crime and though a growg phenomenon, the movement is still secretive and the subject of numero discrimatns. Iraq“It pends on what part of the untry you are – but two words I’d scribe Iraq as ‘not safe’ for LGBT people, ” says Amir Ashour, Iraq’s only openly gay activist, explag that ’s not jt the threat om Islamic State Mosul and Hawija.

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”Attacks on gay dividuals unr Isis have been wily reported, but Iraq’s systematic killg mpaigns of gay dividuals pre-date the terror group and ntue to this day. Amnty Internatnal timat that 5, 000 gays and lbians have been executed there sce the 1979 Iranian revolutn. The threat of blackmail is now a huge problem for gay men, explas Saghi Ghahraman, founr of the Iranian Queer Organizatn.

This is bee Iran’s plex laws around homosexualy mean that men face different punishments for nsensual sexual terurse, pendg whether they are the “active” or the “passive” participant.

This also creat an atmosphere for monstrate agast the suatn Iran durg the 2010 Christopher Street Day gay pri para Berl.

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It’s a double edged sword for some the LGBT muny though – the operatns have bee a ntroversial solutn for gay men tryg to rencile their fah wh their sexualy and the ernment ref to regnise transgenr people who don’t want surgery. In 2014, the Ugandan ernment attempted to troduce the ntroversial Anti-Homosexualy Act, which at first clud a provisn for the ath penalty.

It would go on to be clared unnstutnal Uganda’s urts, but the damage was done, and homophobic vlence had been legimised. People were outed Ugandan newspapers, one published a list of “top 200 homosexuals”, spe knowg that revealg LGBT people’s inti uld lead to them beg killed.

But Put’s ernment is openly anti-gay, and is discsg another homophobic law, which propos jailg people for public displays of non-heterosexual orientatn or genr 2013 Copenhagen gay pri para was dited to Rsia’s LGBT muny. Nor has any actn been taken to shut down groups that openly go after LGBT people, such as Occupy Pedophilia, a natnal work of Rsians who torture gay men, and then post hugely popular vios of their acts onle.

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EgyptEgypt is wily regard as beg the biggt jailer of gay men – the New York Tim timated at least 250 LGBT people have been arrted sce 2013 while LGBT blog 76 crim timat that that number uld be closer to gay or transgenr is not illegal Egypt, but ever sce the ary phed out the print Mohamed Morsi 2013, the thori have engaged a crackdown on the LGBT muny, imprisong them on the charge of “bchery”, which wh a jail term of up to 17 years. Tradnal meetg spots are creasgly unsafe, and sce 2014 gay datg apps such as Grdr have been warng their Egyptian ers that “police may be posg as LGBT on social media to entrap you” have been known to ve journalists and meramen along on raids; those ught may be outed to the whole untry, even if arrted by mistake. In 2014 26 men were filmed as they were arrted naked and acced by a TV prenter of leavg a homosexual brothel.

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Relativ of 26 men who were arrted a televised raid by police lookg for gays at a Cairo public bathhoe, celebrate after an Egyptian urt acquted them Cairo.

Photograph: Amr Nabil/APNigeriaOf the people terviewed for the ILGA-RIWI Global Attus Survey on LGBTI People (pdf), 51% said they “strongly agreed” wh the statement “beg lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr should be a crime” makg the most homophobic untry of the 45 untry threatens 14 year prison sentenc for homosexual acts, and unr a law passed 2013, any Nigerian who belongs to a gay anisatn n also be liable for a 10 year jail term. And although there have been some improvements over recent years, more than 70 untri still have homophobic laws, acrdg to Equalx.

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