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Region | Formosa |
Issue | Censorship of LGBT issues |
Status | No censorship |
Start Date | May 11, 2012 |
End Date | (none) |
Description | In Formosa, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics since the repeal of articles in the Code of Misdemeanours criminalising people from "publicly or privately but with transcendence to the public, offering to perform sexual, perverse or homosexual acts, or incite the public to perform them" and "dressing or passing themselves off as a person of the opposite sex" in 2012. Formosa became the last province in Argentina to decriminalise LGBTIQ+ expression. |
Sources | https://insurrectasypunto.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6698:argentinaformosa-derogo-los-articulos-del-codigo-de-faltas-que-criminalizan-la-homosexualidad-y-el-travestismo-&catid=3:notas&Itemid=3 https://www.saij.gob.ar/legislacion/ley-formosa-794-codigo_faltas_formosa.htm?5 |
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Start Date | (unknown) | May 11, 2012 |
Description | In Formosa, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics. | In Formosa, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics since the repeal of articles in the Code of Misdemeanours criminalising people from "publicly or privately but with transcendence to the public, offering to perform sexual, perverse or homosexual acts, or incite the public to perform them" and "dressing or passing themselves off as a person of the opposite sex" in 2012. Formosa became the last province in Argentina to decriminalise LGBTIQ+ expression. |
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Sources | https://insurrectasypunto.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6698:argentinaformosa-derogo-los-articulos-del-codigo-de-faltas-que-criminalizan-la-homosexualidad-y-el-travestismo-&catid=3:notas&Itemid=3 https://www.saij.gob.ar/legislacion/ley-formosa-794-codigo_faltas_formosa.htm?5 |