Number of LGBT-related laws changed over time
- January 1Equal age of consent becomes equal.
- (date unknown)Homosexual activity becomes legal.No laws against homosexual relationships anywhere in Italy's Penal Code
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- January 1
- (date unknown)Homosexual activity becomes illegal (imprisonment as punishment).Imprisonment of up to 7 years
- January 1
- Homosexual activity becomes legal.
- September 16Same-sex marriage becomes not legal.As homosexuality is illegal, same sex union is by default illegal
- Homosexual activity becomes illegal (other penalty).Inherited from Portuguese colonial era (amended in 1954). Articles 70 and 71(4°) provide for the imposition of security measures on people who habitually practice acts against nature. The security measures may include: a bond of good behavior, being put on probation for a certain period, or even internment in a workhouse or agricultural colony (from 6 months to 3 years).
- Same-sex adoption becomes illegal.
- (date unknown)Homosexual activity becomes illegal (imprisonment as punishment).Homosexuality was illegal under the 1886 Penal Code.
- January 1
- LGBT housing discrimination becomes no protections.
- LGBT housing discrimination becomes no protections.
- LGBT discrimination becomes no protections.Date reflects British colonization of Burma (Myanmar). Homosexual relations are illegal in Myanmar and discrimination occurs regularly.
- (date unknown)Homosexual activity becomes illegal (up to life in prison as punishment).Section 377 prescribes life in prison; or 2 to 10 years in prison and fine. Date represents British colonization of Burma (Myanmar).
- (date unknown)Homosexual activity becomes illegal (imprisonment as punishment).Section 11 of The Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 built on previous legislation. It was famously used against Oscar Wilde and Alan Turing.
- January 1
- (date unknown)Homosexual activity becomes illegal (up to life in prison as punishment).The Labouchere Amendment passed making sex between two men a gross indecency, punishable by imprisonment. Female homosexuality and sexual acts were not addressed in the law, and therefore, they technically would have been legal, though the law often applied the law towards women.
- January 1
- Homosexual activity becomes illegal (imprisonment as punishment).Homosexuality is criminalized in Sri Lanka under Section 365 of the 1883 Penal Code inherited from British colonial rule. "Voluntary carnal intercourse against the order of nature" by both men and women is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Human Rights Watch and Equal Ground have found evidence of these laws continuing to be enforced by police as of 2020. Sri Lanka is an independent nation, as such, India's 2018 Supreme Court decision to decriminalize same-sex relationships and make a similar law unenforceable does not apply.
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- October 6Homosexual activity becomes male illegal, female legal.2 to less than 10 years in prison. Not enforced. Decriminalization pending. Legal in Punjab.