I dont support gay people

Here are five ways LGBTQ people and their allies can take action and show support for the community amid an onslaught of anti-LGBTQ legislation and rhetoric. In five countries - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, and the United Arab Emirates - there is no legal clarity and the death penalty could be applied.

Uganda's parliament recently passed a law to crack down on homosexual activities , prompting widespread condemnation. In February his year Kenya's highest court ruled that it was wrong for authorities to ban the gay community from registering a rights organisation.

Share Save. Not supporting lgbtq+ means you don’t agree we should have the same rights and freedoms as straight people, simple as. Follow us on Twitter. Botswana's High Court also ruled in favour of decriminalising homosexuality in Mozambique and the Seychelles have also scrapped anti-homosexuality laws in recent years.

In February , Angola's President Joao Lourenco signed into law a revised penal code to allow same-sex relationships and ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Although the original British laws applied only to men, countries that criminalise homosexuality today also have penalties for women who have sex with women.

Send us your questions. There are 64 countries that have laws that criminalise homosexuality , and nearly half of these are in Africa. Skip to content. But there are countries where existing laws outlawing homosexuality have been tightened, including Nigeria and Uganda. Out of the 53 countries in the Commonwealth - a loose association of countries most of them former British colonies - 29 have laws that criminalise homosexuality.

For example, a report on Jamaica by the UK Home Office said that Jamaica was regarded as a homophobic society, but that the "authorities do not actively seek to prosecute LGBT persons". Many of the laws criminalising homosexual relations originate from colonial times.

Americans increasingly support gay and lesbian rights and same-sex marriage, but support for trans issues—like gender-affirming care and bathroom access—lag behind amid unrelenting GOP. I personally have some friends who are LGBTQ, and I don’t want to upset them by saying I don’t support them, but I don’t really love pride month.

In July last year, the courts in Antigua and Barbuda declared a law criminalising same-sex acts between consenting adults unconstitutional. It says the death penalty is the legally prescribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts in Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and in some northern states of Nigeria.

Read more from Reality Check. In , Gabon reversed a law that had criminalised homosexuality and made gay sex punishable with six months in prison and a large fine. Does that make me a bad person?. In December , Singapore's parliament repealed a controversial law which banned sex between men.

The country's Speaker Alban Bagbin later called her remarks "undemocratic" and urged lawmakers not to be "intimidated by any person". Some countries, including several in Africa, have recently moved to decriminalise same-sex unions and improve rights for LGBTQ people.

In the same month, the high court in Barbados struck out laws that criminalised gay sex. Sudan repealed the death penalty for consensual same-sex sexual acts in Some observers note that the risk of prosecution in some places is minimal. In May , the high court in Kenya upheld laws criminalising homosexual acts.

And in many places, breaking these laws could be punishable by long prison sentences. If you respect us but don’t support us, then you don’t respect us. In Ghana, in a speech calling for "all people be treated equally" she appeared to criticise a bill before the country's parliament which criminalises advocacy for gay rights and proposes jail terms for those that identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.

So far, 33 countries in the world recognise same-sex marriages, and 34 others provide for some partnership recognition for same-sex couples, Ilga says. Homosexuality: The countries where it is illegal to be gay. Activist groups say the ability of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans LGBT organisations to carry out advocacy work is being restricted.

The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association Ilga monitors the progress of laws relating to homosexuality around the world.