All the places where it's illegal to be LGBTQ+ – and why it's colonialism's fault
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We take a look at all the countries and territories where it is still illegal to be gay or LGBTQ+ – and examine the role colonialism played.

We take a look at all the countries and territories where it is still illegal to be gay or LGBTQ+ – and examine the role colonialism played.

    • squirrelOPEnglish
      22·
      5 months ago

      Yes. From the article:

      Ethiopia: […] It is one of the few African countries that enacted its own anti-gay laws – most others inherited those laws from Britain.

    • Twoafros@lemmy.world
      12·
      5 months ago

      Ethiopian here, Ethiopia was never colonized but unfortunately we’ve managed to be incredibly anti-lgbtq all on our own.

      Personally, I blame our long history of Christianity and Islam which both carry anti-lgbtq beliefs.

    • yildolw@lemmy.world
      8·
      5 months ago

      It was occupied by Italy in WW2, which is outside the “Scramble for Africa” period but is an occupation by a European power