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1932 in LGBT Rights

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In 1932, there were 8 recorded legal changes made affecting LGBT people. In the previous year, there were 3 changes made and 7 in the following year. A total of 51 legal changes were made in the 1930s.

  • September 23
    Equal age of consent becomes n/a.
    Homosexuality and extramarital sexual relations are illegal in Saudi Arabia.
  • September 15
    Same-sex marriage becomes banned.
    Until 2022, Veracruz defined a marriage as between a man and a woman, effectively banning same-sex marriage. In 2017, the Mexican Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional but authorities announced they would keep denying recognition anyway. Civil unions would be recognised in 2020.
  • July 11
    Homosexual activity becomes legal.
    Homosexuality is legal.
  • Equal age of consent becomes equal.
    When Poland legalised same-sex sexual activity, the age of consent was set to 15 for heterosexual and homosexual sex.
  • (date unknown)
    Censorship of LGBT issues becomes state-enforced.
    Since 1932, persecution of LGBTIQ+ people started to become state policy as police edicts were issued that imprisoned homosexuals if they were travelling with a minor. This was often justified not as a persecution of homosexuality but as "protecting" minors across the country. This would further strengthen in the 1940s under Juan Peron into even more widespread discrimination by the government. In 1973, Buenos Aires would later criminalise transgender people and crossdressers.
  • Censorship of LGBT issues becomes state-enforced.
    Tucuman used to have laws criminalising "dressing as the opposite sex" in public until 1995. It is unknown when these laws were first implemented.
  • Censorship of LGBT issues becomes state-enforced.
    Since 1932, persecution of LGBTIQ+ people started to become state policy as police edicts were issued that imprisoned homosexuals if they were travelling with a minor. This was often justified not as a persecution of homosexuality but as "protecting" minors across the country. This would further strengthen in the 1940s under Juan Peron into even more widespread discrimination by the government. Since 1953, differing province laws on criminalising expression of homosexual and transgender people would come into effect.
  • Censorship of LGBT issues becomes state-enforced.
    In 1932, Colonel Luis J. Garcia introduced a new clause in Article 2 of the Police Edicts of Buenos Aires City, which criminalised "exhibiting oneself on public roads or in public places dressed or disguised with clothes of the opposite sex". That same year, persecution of LGBTIQ+ people started to become state policy as police edicts were issued that imprisoned homosexuals if they were travelling with a minor. This was often justified not as a persecution of homosexuality but as "protecting" minors across the country. This would further strengthen in the 1940s under Juan Peron into even more widespread discrimination by the government.