Gay sex is no longer as widely criminalized as it used to be but 65 nations still have laws against it.
India Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to legalise same-sex unions, dashing the hopes of millions of LGBTQ+ people seeking marriage equality.
Here’s the list of countries where homosexuality is illegal:
1. Burundi
2. Cameroon
3. Chad
4. Comoros
6. Egypt
7. Eritrea
8. Eswatini (Swaziland)
9. Ethiopia
10. Gambia
11. Ghana
12. Guinea
13. Kenya
14. Liberia
15. Libya
16. Malawi
17. Mauritania
18. Morocco
19. Namibia
20. Nigeria
21. Senegal
21. Sierra Leone
22. Somalia
23. South Sudan
24. Sudan
25. Tanzania
26. Togo
27. Tunisia
28. Uganda
29. Zambia
30. Zimbabwe
31. Afghanistan
32. Bangladesh
33. Brunei
34. Indonesia
35. Iran
36. Iraq
37. Kuwait
38. Lebanon (law ruled invalid in one court in 2014 and disqualified for use against same-sex intimacy in another court in February 2017)
39. Malaysia
40. Maldives
41. Myanmar
42. Oman
43. Pakistan
44. Palestine (Gaza Strip only)
45. Qatar
46. Saudi Arabia
47. Sri Lanka
48. Syria
49. Turkmenistan
50. United Arab Emirates
51. Uzbekistan
52. Yemen
53. Americas
54. Dominica
55. Grenada
56. Guyana
57. Jamaica
58. St Lucia
59. St Vincent & the Grenadines
60. Kirbati
60. Niue
61. Papua New Guinea
62 Samoa
63 Solomon Islands
64 Tonga
65. Tuvalu
