The number of nations with anti-gay laws had dropped to 71 on Feb. The ECSC is currently considering challenges to laws from several other Caribbean countries. Kitts and Nevis and in Antigua & Barbuda. The previous year, the southeast Asian island nation Singapore repealed its colonial-era sodomy law in Parliament, the Caribbean island of Barbados had its laws against buggery and gross indecency struck down by its high court, and the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) struck down laws criminalizing same-sex intercourse in St. The latest country to end the criminalization of same-sex intimacy is the Cook Islands, part of the Realm of New Zealand in the South Pacific, which repealed its sodomy laws by an act of its local parliament in April 2023. When the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) published an updated report on “State-Sponsored Homophobia,” began documenting the laws that are used to persecute LGBT people in 2006, it counted 92 countries that criminalized same-sex relations. Overall, a strong trend is moving the world away from homophobic repression - though it’s happening slowly. The law aims to prohibit minors from having access to information about transsexuality and to content that “promotes” homosexuality.Īs noted above, Libya and Nigeria also have anti-“gay propaganda” laws in addition to their laws outlawing same-sex intimacy.
Hungary, which passed an “anti-LGBTQ” law in 2021.The seldom-enforced Law on the Protection of Minors has been repeatedly debated by Lithuanian officials and challenged in court. Lithuania, which passed a similar law but subsequently weakened it.Russia extended that prohibition to cover all positive mentions of same-sex love in any traditional media, social media, advertising or movies, not just in those with children in the audience 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online.The last European location with such a law was Northern Cyprus (recognized as a country only by Turkey), which repealed its law in January 2014.Īlso in Europe and worth mentioning but not on the list of countries with laws against homosexuality are: No country in Europe has a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.
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 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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