sodomy laws

The Iranian government is extremely anti-LGBTQ and is routinely condemned by human rights groups for its frequent use of the death penalty.

A man is still forced to register as a sex offender due to a 2001 sodomy charge, even though SCOTUS overturned such laws in 2003.

State Rep. James White has just opened the door for Texas’s Attorney General to decide whether the Supreme Court’s ruling making marriage equality the law of the land has to be “recognized” by Texas citizens.

The ordinance governed “obscene and immoral acts.” And relics of old anti-LGBTQ laws like it are still on the books nationwide.

They’re accused of violating the state’s ban on “unnatural or perverted sexual practices” almost two decades after the Supreme Court overturned sodomy laws.

We recognize these seven veterans from the American Revolution to the present who, while not having lost their lives in military action, sacrificed themselves in other ways.

“Mark my words, he is on a sojourn to the gay community in order to be an instrument of God to that community eventually.”

Their neighbors turned them in to Islamic police in Indonesia and said they caught them having sex with each other.

Finance Minister Namgay Tshering suggested it be removed during a meeting to reform the penal code, saying it had become “a stain” on the country’s reputation.

Homosexuality is technically legal in the country, but some of the men could get 15 years of jail for the gay party.