Another list of countries that have laws or customs unfriendly to LGBTs, although I don't know of any legal cases being brought forward to punish what is basically considered a crime in some states that refused to remove state law to match federal laws or leanings. I was reading the Bible's Old Testament one day and ran across a scripture that praised an "Army of Eunuchs." I was thinking that even though today a "eunuch" seems to refer to a sexless man, but when it was written, it probably accommodate LGBT persons as well. I wasn't there, but I'm guessing it was the old way of finding good in every person who defends their nation, including people who would otherwise be stoned to death. I think the word "eunuch" was euphemistically used to accommodate battlefield heros who fought for their brother man, regardless of their proclivities.
Below you will find:
THE LIST: A tally of nations with anti-homosexuality laws.
HISTORY: Recent history of many nations repealing or overturning those laws and a few nations newly adopting them.
COMPARISON: A comparison of this blog’s list with the similar list compiled by ILGA, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. (Mostly the lists differ only in relatively small ways, such as whether they are limited to United Nations member nations.)
This page is duplicated in an Erasing 76 Crimes post, which is also titled “71 countries where homosexuality is illegal”. (The post is needed because the website couldn’t display a page properly. The page is needed because its Internet address has become the destination for many other sites’ hyperlinks.)
THE LIST
Here is this blog’s list of 71 countries and independent political entities with anti-homosexuality laws, with links to the blog’s coverage of them.
Africa
- Algeria
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Comoros
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Eswatini (Swaziland)
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Libya
- Malawi
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Asia, including the Middle East
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- Brunei
- Indonesia (Aceh Province, South Sumatra Province and four cities in other provinces)
- Iran
- Iraq
- Kuwait
- Lebanon (law ruled invalid in one court in 2014 and disqualified for use against same-sex intimacy in another court in February 2017)
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Myanmar
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine (Gaza Strip only)
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore (But top court says the law is unenforceable.)
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Yemen
Americas
- Antigua & Barbuda
- Barbados
- Dominica (But see “Dominica leader: No enforcement of anti-gay law“)
- Grenada
- Guyana
- Jamaica
- St Kitts & Nevis
- St Lucia
- St Vincent & the Grenadines
In the United States, anti-sodomy laws were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003, but they are still on the books in
13 states: Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Virginia. Conservative state legislators refuse to repeal the laws and, in some cases, police occasionally still arrest people on the basis of them. In the recent past,
more than a dozen 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.
Source: https://76crimes.com/76-countries-where-homosexuality-is-illegal/