(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. The law is formally suspended in Singapore, so it is shown in yellow. Such laws apply in parts of Indonesia, so it is shown here in orange. Map of the 70 countries where sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal. Antigua & Barbuda in the Caribbean, Bhutan in the Himalayas and Gabon in central Africa are the most recent countries to have repealed their anti-gay laws.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 70 nations still have laws against it.
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