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. 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 13 states: Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Virginia. 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 71 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 “71 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. Such laws apply in parts of Indonesia, so it is shown here in orange. Map of the 71 countries where sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal. Bhutan in the Himalayas and Gabon in central Africa are the most recent countries to have repealed their anti-gay laws. No matter how you slice it, it’s racist.Gay sex is no longer as widely criminalized as it used to be, but a total of 71 nations still have laws against it. You can’t say you prefer one race of people as romantic partners, or anything really, to another because all of the people who belong to one race are not the same. Yes, people like what they like but sometimes the things people like are racist, like lawn jockeys or the current president of the United States. I’ll put aside the fact that broadcasting your distaste for an entire race, or multiple races, in the year 2017 is really dumb in addition to being racist as fuck, and just challenge the reasoning here head on. Almost as if it’s a magic phrase that just kind of ends the conversation and absolves you of your bullshit. Can’t change that.” I’ve heard that excuse, or some iteration of it, used many times. That’s fine and to make you feel more heard I’ll even repeat the most common point used to counter my argument ― “but people like what they like. I should point out that I’ve had this conversation with more than a couple of white gays in person and here is where the debate usually begins, so I’m going to assume that you’re rolling your eyes at me right about now. But you may want to take my words to heart if you’d like to live up to those progressive memes you share on Facebook all the time.
There’s only one capital H-i-m and it’s not me. As a black man within the gay community, I recognize that shit all the time and have a few points I’d like to discuss with you. As a result, there are often times when you don’t recognize when your behavior towards people of color veers into problematic territory. the world, you must admit, you have no clue what it means to be racially discriminated against. You mean well when it comes to race relations but, as a white man in. You’re good guys, I know this to be true.
I’m talking to you ― the cisgendered, white, gay men out there who hold no ill will towards minorities (especially black and brown ones) but somehow have never found themselves in bed with one. I’ve never been one to throw that word around casually and even though I’m sure there are some that word would fit like a glove, I’m not talking to them. Before I begin, I want you to understand that I’m not calling all of you racist.