[ILGA has published a map on LGBTI rights that can be used to raise awareness of people on the many laws affecting LGBTI people in the world. It is available on www.ilga.org.]
The International Lesbian and Gay Association’s 2008 report on state-sponsored homophobia says that to be lesbian or gay risks jail time in 86 countries and death penalty in seven.The figure normally quoted is 77 countries.
The research deals only with legislation criminalising consensual sexual acts between persons of the same sex in private above the age of consent.
Laws dealing with such acts in public, with under aged people, with force or by any other reason are not included.
In addition to those 86 countries there are six provinces or territorial units which also punish homosexuality with imprisonment, said ILGA.
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