Homosexual activity: Illegal (imprisonment as punishment) from 1899 to Apr 3, 1964.
Under British law, homosexuality was punishable by one month to three years in prison in the British Somali Coast Protectorate.
In Italian Somalia, there were no laws against homosexuality, but the…
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Homosexual activity: Illegal (other penalty) from Nov 14, 1975 to (none).
Information related to the legality of homosexuality in Western Sahara (also known as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) is extremely limited. Some sources, such as The Council for Global…
Homosexual activity: Male illegal, female legal from 1835 to 1951.
Following the country's independence from the Ottoman Empire, the penal code of 1834 stipulated in Article 274 that anyone guilty of sodomy shall be punished with at least one year imprisonment…
Homosexual activity: Male illegal, female legal from Sep 1, 1880 to Dec 15, 1961.
Section 241 of the first Hungarian penal code criminalized sexual relations between men as unnatural sexual intercourse. The law could punish the offender with up to one year in prison (or up to…
Homosexual activity: Male illegal, female legal from 1834 to 1951.
Following the country's independence from the Ottoman Empire, the penal code of 1834 stipulated in Article 274 that anyone guilty of sodomy shall be punished with at least one year imprisonment…
Homosexual activity: Illegal (death penalty as punishment) from Apr 11, 1713 to Nov 1, 1861.
Under the Buggery Act 1533, which received Royal Assent from King Henry VIII in 1534, homosexuality in what is now the United Kingdom was punishable by death. It only came into place in Gibraltar in…
Homosexual activity: Illegal (up to life in prison as punishment) from Nov 1, 1861 to Jul 27, 1967.
The Offences Against the Person Act 1861 lowered the maximum penalty to life imprisonment.
Subsequent laws, such as the Labouchere Amendment (Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885)…
Homosexual activity: Legal from Jul 27, 1967 to Nov 30, 2000.
The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 legalized sexual acts between two men who were 21 or older (excluding men serving in the military), but it placed new restrictions on sex for men who have sex with…
Homosexual activity: Legal from Nov 30, 2000 to (none).
The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000 repealed all criminal provisions regarding homosexuality, setting an equal age of consent for sexual activity between men; this also applies to Gibraltar.