Here are the countries where it is still illegal to be LGBTQ+

[Tooting Carmen]

https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/life/here...l-to-be-lgbtq/

It’s almost been 50 years since the American Psychiatric Association officially declassified homosexuality as a mental illness, yet there are still countries around the world that barbarically oppose – and at times, deny – the existence of LGBTQ+ people.

Although there’s been significant progress for LGBTQ+ issues in various global territories – such as same-sex marriage, protections in the workplace, the right to adopt and banning conversion therapy – 71 archaic countries continue to criminalise same-sex activity.

Even worse, there are 11 jurisdictions where being queer is punishable by death: Iran, Northern Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Brunei, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar and UAE.

It’s important to remember how far we’ve come but also, how far we have to go.⁠ See the full list of countries below that criminalise being LGBTQ+, and share this to remind others of the progress we still need to make.

Afghanistan
Algeria
Antigua & Barbuda
Bangladesh
Barbados
Brunei
Burundi
Cameroon
Chad
Comoros
Cook Islands
Dominica
Egypt
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Ghana
Grenada
Guinea
Guyana
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Jamaica
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Lebanon
Liberia
Libya
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Myanmar
Namibia
Nigeria
Oman
Pakistan
Palestine
Papua New Guinea
Qatar
Saint Kitts And Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Sudan
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Syria
Tanzania
The Gambia
Togo
Tonga
Tunisia
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

[Volvado Seja]

Based countries

[Africanwidow]

Based countries

Kek, nigger

[Tooting Carmen]

Based countries

Ironically, these are generally countries that, in most other circumstances, would be labelled 'backward' and 'inferior' by many if not most members here.

[Atlantic Reptilian]

Ironically, these are generally countries that, in most other circumstances, would be labelled 'backward' and 'inferior' by many if not most members here.

I will never understand why straight people in these countries care so much about homosexuals

[Volvado Seja]

Ironically, these are generally countries that, in most other circumstances, would be labelled 'backward' and 'inferior' by many if not most members here.

indeed, but they also have few advantages

[Tooting Carmen]

And to show that this is far from being the only issue where, contrary to what some think, I am very far from being a Third Worldist, please see here: https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...community-quot

[Tooting Carmen]

And to show that this is far from being the only issue where, contrary to what some think, I am very far from being a Third Worldist, please see here: https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...community-quot

Though that said, it cannot be stressed enough that the Western world is far from being immune from such collectivist and oppressive thinking either. Until the 60's and 70's, many Western countries (particularly in the Anglosphere, as it happens) themselves criminalised homosexuality. Furthermore, quite apart from the particularly extreme examples of Nazism and Communism, I'd also argue that the rather less violent but still totalitarian societies of the Jim Crow South and Apartheid South Africa were examples of collectivist/communitarian thinking writ large. "You cannot marry this person or be friends with that person because the community will disapprove".

[Cristiano viejo]

In some aspects Third World countries are indeed much more advanced than the so called First World.

[JamesBond007]

https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/life/here...l-to-be-lgbtq/

It’s almost been 50 years since the American Psychiatric Association officially declassified homosexuality as a mental illness, yet there are still countries around the world that barbarically oppose – and at times, deny – the existence of LGBTQ+ people.

What is amazing to me is that drapetomania, homosexuality and masturbatory insanity were all considered 'mental illnesses' reflecting the dominant norms and values of wider society, yet, the masses can't see psychiatry is a moral and political project and not a scientific medical one. It is argued rhetorically that these were merely false starts of a young science and that we know more about 'mental disorders' than ever before but that is bullshit. The chemical imbalance theory remains unproven. The best-known example of this way of thinking is the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia. The idea that depression is caused by a deficiency of serotonin or noradrenalin is another example, sometimes referred to as the ‘monoamine theory’ of depression (serotonin and noradrenalin are both classified as monoamine-type neurotransmitters). Although scientists acknowledge that these are merely theories, which are far from being proven, there is a widespread public perception that the biochemical origins of various psychiatric disorders have been established. Also, no biological sign has ever been found for any ‘mental disorder.’ Correspondingly, there is no known physiological etiology.

The sacred symbol of Psychiatry is schizophrenia but the DSM is constituted in such a way that two people diagnosed with it can have completely different sets of symptoms. When people say schizophrenia does not exist we do not mean such behavior does not exist but rather it is a wastebasket for disturbing behavior.