What rights don t gay people have

Almost half of them are Commonwealth jurisdictions. Even in jurisdictions that do not explicitly criminalise women, lesbians and bisexual women have been subjected to arrest or threat of arrest. In many more countries transgender people are targeted by a range of laws that criminalise same-sex activity and vagrancy, hooliganism and public order offences.

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Country List Map. This map uses the Peters Projection which presents countries in their true proportion to one another. Asia Afghanistan Criminalisation:. Bangladesh Criminalisation:. Brunei Criminalisation:. Indonesia Criminalisation:. Iran Criminalisation:.

Iraq Criminalisation:. Kuwait Criminalisation:.

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Lebanon Criminalisation:. Malaysia Criminalisation:. Maldives Criminalisation:. Myanmar Criminalisation:. Oman Criminalisation:. Pakistan Criminalisation:. Palestine Criminalisation:. Qatar Criminalisation:. Saudi Arabia Criminalisation:. Sri Lanka Criminalisation:. Syria Criminalisation:.

Turkmenistan Criminalisation:. United Arab Emirates Criminalisation:.