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This map gives a tl;dr of which countries still criminalise being gay. Somber reading. In many countries penalties include imprisonment and death. https://www.
by nomilk 2y ago
This map gives a tl;dr of which countries still criminalise being gay. Somber reading. In many countries penalties include imprisonment and death.
https://www.humandignitytrust.org/lgbt-the-law/map-of-criminalisation/ https://www.humandignitytrust.org/lgbt-the-law/map-of-crimin...
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoWhat is the source of the criminalisation of homosexuality? The original sin that started the wave? Is it tied in any way to backlash to the Romans? It seems to randomly pop up in Christian Rome and then percolate across the Abrahamic faiths from there [1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminalization_of_homosexuality#History https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminalization_of_homosexua...
- gwervc 2y agoGiven that most of the listed countries are hot, a more reasonable take is climate change.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Given that most of the listed countries are hot, a more reasonable take is climate change If you’re looking at the modern map, it’s largely one of Islam.
- NeoTar 2y agoIt must be hard to do research on this since I can imagine that prosecutions were possible even if homosexuality were not actually illegal (one can find other crimes to prosecute such as 'corrupting the youth') and the conflation between various sexual acts in law (e.g. consentual versus non-consentual sexual activity). I do appreciate the idea that it may have been prompted by anti-homosexual moral panics though. That resonates.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> it may have been prompted by anti-homosexual moral panics I suppose I’m curious about how those panics arose. It seems to have gone from generally accepted to generally feared in an ambiguous way.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoNo, it's in the Old Testament as well.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> it's in the Old Testament as well How old are the relevant lines in Leviticus 18 and 20? From what I can tell, homosexuality wasn’t referenced in the first versions from 800 BCE [1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_Leviticus_Scroll https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_Leviticus_Scrol...
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoNot sure how you get that from the link. Am I missing something?