Number of LGBT-related laws changed over time
- January 1Homosexual activity becomes illegal (death penalty as punishment).74 lashes for immature men and death penalty for mature men. 50 lashes for women. as well as life in prison. forth conviction is death penalty.
- LGBT employment discrimination becomes no protections.
- LGBT discrimination becomes no protections.No explicit protections. People are kicked out of their house if they are found out if they are lgbt.
- May 1Homosexual activity becomes illegal (imprisonment as punishment).At least 6 months imprisonment
- March 14Homosexual activity becomes illegal (imprisonment as punishment).Responding to STATE v. PLACE, the Washington State Legislature adopted the common law definition of "crimes against nature" and established a penalty of "imprisonment at hard labor in the state penitentiary for not less than ten nor more than fourteen years" upon conviction of sodomy.
- (date unknown)Homosexual activity becomes male illegal, female legal.Section 354 of the Guyana Criminal Law (Offences) Act of 1893 states “Everyone who commits buggery, either with a human being or with any other living creature, shall be guilty of felony and liable to imprisonment for life.” Buggery is also known as anal sexual intercourse. This law generally goes unenforced however LGBT people still regularly face discrimination and violence.
- (date unknown)Equal age of consent becomes ambiguous.Under the Criminal Law Code at the time, age of consent to vaginal sex was raised from 12 to 14. Anal sex was not mentioned.
- January 1
- Equal age of consent becomes equal.
- (date unknown)Homosexual activity becomes legal.No laws against homosexual relationships anywhere in Italy's Penal Code