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The Pink Triangle | about | countries where homosexuality is illegal
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78 countries where homosexuality is illegal
Africa
Asia and the Middle East
Americas
Oceania
Europe No country in Europe has a law against homosexuality. The last European location with such a law was Northern Cyprus (recognized as a country only by Turkey), which repealed its law in January 2014. Also in Europe and worth mentioning but not on that list of countries with laws against homosexuality are:
In addition, in central Asia, Kyrgyzstan in October 2014 was on the verge of adopting an anti-gay "propaganda" law harsher than that in Russia. If that bill becomes law, any type of distribution of positive information on same-sex relations, not just discussions in the presence of a minor, would become a crime punishable by fines and a jail sentence. The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, or ILGA, lists 78 countries with criminal laws against sexual activity by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex people (LGBTIs), but that's a slight understatement. The ILGA total as of early 2014 would 81 countries if you included Indonesia, where two large provinces outlaw homosexual acts, as well as political entities that aren't fully accepted by the international community--Gaza/Palestine and the Cook Islands, a self-governing country whose residents all have citizenship in New Zealand. Unlike this blog, ILGA also includes the Central African Republic in its tally, because of its law against same-sex intimacy in public places. That total would actually be 82 countries if you were to include Russia, which does not have a law against homosexual acts but is in the midst of an anti-gay crackdown on the basis of its new law against "gay propaganda." Back in 2012, based on a separate, nearly complete count, St. Paul's Foundation for International Reconciliation cited a total of 76 countries. That list was used in that year's Spirit of 76 Worldwide program aimed at repealing those laws. It also inspired the name of this blog--"Erasing 76 Crimes." The tiny nations of Palau in the western Pacific Ocean and São Tomé and Príncipe, in the Atlantic Ocean off the shores of central Africa, recently decriminalized homosexuality and were dropped from this list in 2014. Mozambique, on the southeastern coast of Africa, with a population of 24 million, adopted a new Penal Code in the second half of 2014 and was dropped from this list in early 2015. For more information, download the ILGA report on state-sponsored homophobia and maps of countries that recognize and those that reject gay and lesbian rights. This information above is from http://76crimes.com/76-countries-where-homosexuality-is-illegal/ |
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