By Dustin Diehl, PRIDE.com
It’s crazy to think that today, in 2015, there are still places in the world where being gay could get you killed. Sure, we have a long way to go when it comes to equal rights, intolerance and acceptance — but being killed? How is that still possible? Unfortunately, it’s a very scary reality for many LGBTQ people around the world.
YEMEN
If you’re a married man, and get caught having homosexual intercourse, you can be stoned to death. If you’re unmarried and get caught it’s a whipping and/or a year in prison. And for women — up to seven years in prison.
IRAN
Men caught engaging in homosexual sex can be killed. And it’s not just lip service: In July 2005, two teenagers were hanged, convicted of “homosexuality.”
IRAQ
There’s nothing in the law that calls out homosexuality specifically, but that hasn’t stopped militias and local judges from sentencing people to death anyway.
MAURITANIA
Gay Muslim men can face stoning, and gay Muslim women face imprisonment.
NIGERIA
Not only is it illegal for gay people to form clubs or groups, some states in Nigeria have also adopted the death penalty for gay men.
QATAR
Extramarital sex is punishable by death. And since same-sex marriage isn’t legal, that includes all homosexual sex.
SAUDI ARABIA
Lashes, imprisonment and stoning are acceptable punishments for “sodomy” and other homosexual acts.
SOMALIA
Imprisonment may be the law of the land, but that hasn’t stopped some states from enacting the death penalty.
SUDAN
Get caught once: Flogging. Twice: Imprisonment. Three times: Death penalty.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
There’s some confusion about what actually warrants the death penalty (consensual homosexual sex or just rape?), but all sex outside of marriage is banned.
It’s crazy to think that today, in 2015, there are still places in the world where being gay could get you killed. Sure, we have a long way to go when it comes to equal rights, intolerance and acceptance — but being killed? How is that still possible? Unfortunately, it’s a very scary reality for many LGBTQ people around the world.
YEMEN
If you’re a married man, and get caught having homosexual intercourse, you can be stoned to death. If you’re unmarried and get caught it’s a whipping and/or a year in prison. And for women — up to seven years in prison.
IRAN
Men caught engaging in homosexual sex can be killed. And it’s not just lip service: In July 2005, two teenagers were hanged, convicted of “homosexuality.”
IRAQ
There’s nothing in the law that calls out homosexuality specifically, but that hasn’t stopped militias and local judges from sentencing people to death anyway.
MAURITANIA
Gay Muslim men can face stoning, and gay Muslim women face imprisonment.
NIGERIA
Not only is it illegal for gay people to form clubs or groups, some states in Nigeria have also adopted the death penalty for gay men.
QATAR
Extramarital sex is punishable by death. And since same-sex marriage isn’t legal, that includes all homosexual sex.
SAUDI ARABIA
Lashes, imprisonment and stoning are acceptable punishments for “sodomy” and other homosexual acts.
SOMALIA
Imprisonment may be the law of the land, but that hasn’t stopped some states from enacting the death penalty.
SUDAN
Get caught once: Flogging. Twice: Imprisonment. Three times: Death penalty.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
There’s some confusion about what actually warrants the death penalty (consensual homosexual sex or just rape?), but all sex outside of marriage is banned.
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