Most of Mexico's states have enacted laws that ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or sexual preference, as well as gender. Many states also explicitly ban discrimination based on gender…

Sources: www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesB…

In the 1600s to the revolution of the Second French intervention, Sodomy was heavily criminalized until Mexico adopted Spanish laws. Spanish laws still heavily criminalized acts of sodomy even…

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