Number of LGBT-related laws changed over time
- September 1Homosexual activity becomes illegal (death penalty as punishment).LGBT people were persecuted by Nazi forces during the German occupation of the Second World War.
- (date unknown)Homosexual activity becomes illegal (death penalty as punishment).Paragraph 175 was amended during Nazi rule to create harsher penalties for homosexual behavior between men. Imprisonment was to range from three (3) months to ten (10) years in prison. Many homosexual men died in the Nazi concentration camps they were sent to.
- December 4Equal age of consent becomes equal.The age of consent in Uruguay is 15 years old regardless of the type of intercourse.
- Homosexual activity becomes legal.Homosexual activity is legal according to the Uruguay Penal Code.
- January 1Homosexual activity becomes legal.
- Homosexual activity becomes legal.
- September 23
- Equal age of consent becomes unequal.Extramarital sexual relations and homosexuality is illegal in Saudi Arabia
- LGBT discrimination becomes no protections.There are no protection from discrimination to LGBT people
- Homosexual activity becomes illegal (death penalty as punishment).While Saudi Arabia has no specific law banning homosexuality, it does use Sharia law as a framework. Punishment for those who are convicted varies between flogging and imprisonment. Those who are convicted twice face an automatic execution. Under Saudi Arabian interpretation of Sharia, a Non Muslim male who engages sexual relations with a Muslim male could face the Capital Punishment , married men who have sex with another men could also face execution by stoning for the offense of adultery . While sex between Muslim men is is sentenced by Flogging on the first offence. Second conviction merits execution.
- July 11Equal age of consent becomes equal.
- Homosexual activity becomes legal.
- June 24Same-sex marriage becomes unrecognized.Date shown is when Thailand became a constitutional monarchy. Thailand currently does not recognize gay marriages.
- Right to change legal gender becomes illegal.Sex reassignment surgery is legal in Thailand, however Thai law does not allow for gender to be changed on legal documents such as ID. Date shown is when Thailand became a constitutional monarchy.
- November 1Homosexual activity becomes male illegal, female legal.7-14 years to life in prison under unnatural/indecent acts. Not enforced.
- LGBT discrimination becomes no protections.As homosexuality is illegal, there are no protections for this population.
- Homosexual activity becomes illegal (imprisonment as punishment).Liable, upon conviction, to imprisonment for a term not less than fifteen years and may be liable to imprisonment for life. Decriminalization pending.
- (date unknown)Equal age of consent becomes equal.
- August 1
- LGBT housing discrimination becomes no protections.
- LGBT employment discrimination becomes ambiguous.Some through human rights institute for sexual orientation only.
- LGBT discrimination becomes no protections.As homosexuality is currently illegal, discrimination against LGBT persons are legal.
- Homosexual activity becomes illegal (imprisonment as punishment).Article 162, 163 and 165 prohibits homosexuality and offender is punishable by from 5 to 14 years in prison.
- April 1
- Homosexual activity becomes illegal (imprisonment as punishment).Up to fourteen years imprisonment, with or without corporal punishment (public whippings)