![]() ![]() Russia, which enacted an anti-“gay propaganda” law in 2013 prohibiting any positive mention of homosexuality in the presence of minors, including online.The last European location with such a law was Northern Cyprus (recognized as a country only by Turkey), which repealed its law in January 2014.Īlso in Europe and worth mentioning but not on the list of countries with laws against homosexuality are: No country in Europe has a law against homosexuality. Recently, on Supreme Court Justice has opined that the Court should revisit its decision that decriminalized sodomy. In the recent past, dozens of LGBT people were arrested for violating those laws, but the arrestees were freed because prosecutors won’t seek convictions based on laws that have been ruled unconstitutional. Conservative state legislators refuse to repeal the laws and, in some cases, police occasionally still arrest people on the basis of them. Supreme Court in 2003, but they are still on the books in 14 states: Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas. In the United States, anti-sodomy laws were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Dominica (But see “ Dominica leader: No enforcement of anti-gay law“).Lebanon (law ruled invalid in one court in 2014 and disqualified for use against same-sex intimacy in another court in February 2017).Indonesia (Aceh Province, South Sumatra Province and four cities in other provinces).Here is this blog’s list of 70 countries and independent political entities with anti-homosexuality laws, with links to the blog’s coverage of them. (Mostly the lists differ only in relatively small ways, such as whether they are limited to United Nations member nations.) HISTORY: Recent history of many nations repealing or overturning those laws and a few nations newly adopting them.ĬOMPARISON: A comparison of this blog’s list with the similar list compiled by ILGA, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. THE LIST: A tally of nations with anti-homosexuality laws. All states in RED have nationwide sodomy laws and no known efforts to remove them. Indonesia in ORANGE has laws that criminalize homosexuality only in some subnational jurisdictions. Sri Lanka in PINK currently has a bill before its parliament to repeal its sodomy law. YELLOW countries are have sodomy laws that are currently being challenged before local courts. Map of the 67 countries where sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal. ![]()
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