In 1791, France legalized same-sex sexual acts for s 29 ln rints. A wave of acceptance for gays and lbians was slow to follow, only gag momentum 200 years later the 1990s, when untri began prohibg employment discrimatn and grantg rights to same-sex partners. Here's how laws have spread by untry, year and natnal populatn at the time the law was enacted. Rearchers generally timate 4 percent of the populatn of the world is gay.
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HOW GAY RIGHTS HAVE SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD OVER THE LAST 224 YEARS
Equalx is a llaborative knowledge base for the LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) movement, visualizg LGBTQ+ rights through maps, timel, and data. * gay rights by country *
Some untri are acceptg, even gay-iendly, and have strong LGBTQ+ protectns such as safeguards that prerve dividuals' rights to marriage and employment. In the world's most homophobic untri, LGBTQI+ liftyl may be illegal and punishable by prison sentenc, lashgs, or the ath penalty.
In a global survey nducted 2023, three percent of rponnts clared to be homosexual, gay, or lbian. * gay rights by country *
Bee of this breadth, termg each untry's level of LGBTQI+ support requir the parison of many ditors, rangg om whether gay marriage is legal to whether LGBTQI+ dividuals are accepted by the general populatn or subjected to discrimatn and possible vigilante vlence.
As of 2022, six untri' legal s specifilly prcribe the ath penalty for the "crime" of homosexualy and another five untri allow for the possibily of the ath penalty. LGBT and LGBTQ+ have several addnal variatns, cludg LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA+, and 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual, wh the + reprentg pansexual, agenr, genr queer, bigenr, genr variant, and pangenr). Two of the most notable advancements LGBTQI+ rights the US recent s are the legalizatn of gay marriage and the legalizatn of adoptn of children by same-sex upl.
Gay marriage legalizatn expand om one state 2004 to all fifty stat 2015 through feral urt lgs, state urt lgs, state legislatn, and direct popular vot.