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“).Singapore (But top court says the law is unenforceable.).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. The page is needed because its Internet address has become the destination for many other sites’ hyperlinks.) (The post is needed because the website couldn’t display a page properly. This page is duplicated in an Erasing 76 Crimes post, which is also titled “70 countries where homosexuality is illegal”. (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. In Singapore, the law is formally suspended and the government has announced a repeal, so it is shown in yellow.

Such laws apply in parts of Indonesia, so it is shown here in orange. Map of the 69 countries where sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal. Antigua & Barbuda and Saint Kitts & Nevis in the Caribbean, Bhutan in the Himalayas and Gabon in central Africa are the most recent countries to have repealed their anti-gay laws. Gay sex is no longer as widely criminalized as it used to be, but a total of 69 nations still have laws against it.

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