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| Region | Formosa |
| Issue | Censorship of LGBT issues |
| Status | Imprisonment as punishment |
| Start Date | Sep 10, 1979 |
| End Date | May 10, 2012 |
| Description | In 1979, Formosa added Article 98 to its Code of Misdemeanours which criminalised people from publicly or in a private place with transcendence to the public "offering to perform sexual, perverse or homosexual acts, or inciting the public to perform them" with five to thirty days imprisonment, criminalising homosexual expression. Additionally, Article 99 criminalised people who "dress or pass themselves off as a person of the opposite sex" with three to fifteen days imprisonment, criminalising trans expression. Both articles would be repealed in 2012. |
| 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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| Status | Imprisonment as punishment |
| Start Date | Sep 10, 1979 |
| End Date | May 10, 2012 |
| Description | In 1979, Formosa added Article 98 to its Code of Misdemeanours which criminalised people from publicly or in a private place with transcendence to the public "offering to perform sexual, perverse or homosexual acts, or inciting the public to perform them" with five to thirty days imprisonment, criminalising homosexual expression. Additionally, Article 99 criminalised people who "dress or pass themselves off as a person of the opposite sex" with three to fifteen days imprisonment, criminalising trans expression. Both articles would be repealed in 2012. |
| 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 |