This map shows LGBTQ protections worldwide. It’s even worse than it looks.

ILGA’s map of LGBTQ laws
Photo: ILGA

Thirty years after the World Health Organization declassified homosexuality as an illness, homosexuality is still illegal in 70 countries around the world.

The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association (ILGA) released a map of LGBTQ protections and criminal laws to highlight the precarity of LGBTQ equality, even as much progress has been made in some countries, yesterday for the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT).

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The map shows that 12 countries either have a law that allows the death penalty as punishment for homosexuality or such a law is used to kill LGBTQ people, as of December 2019.

Other countries – in Europe, the Americas, and on other continents – protect LGBTQ equality in their constitutions or to some degree in their laws.

The anti-LGBTQ colors red and orange dominate the map, but a closer look shows that the situation is worse than it appears….

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