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LGBT rights by country or territory

Index LGBT rights by country or territory

Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 147 relations: Adultery laws, Age of consent, Akkadian literature, Anti-bullying legislation, Anti-discrimination law, Arthashastra, Assisted reproductive technology, Assyria, Assyrian law, Aulus Gellius, Ayoni, Šumma ālu, Bathroom bill, Benelux, Bisexuality, Blood donation restrictions on men who have sex with men, Book of Deuteronomy, Book of Genesis, British Empire, Capital punishment for homosexuality, Capital punishment for non-violent offenses, Cato the Elder, Censorship of LGBT issues, Chechnya, Civil union, CNN, Codex Theodosianus, Constantine the Great and Christianity, Conversion therapy, Criminalization of homosexuality, Cross-dressing, De facto, De jure, Death by burning, Decriminalization of homosexuality, Desertion, Dharmaśāstra, Discrimination, Domestic partnership, Equaldex, Eunuch, Forbidden Tale, Fordham University, Freedman, Fustuarium, Gay, Gay sex roles, Gender role, Gender-affirming surgery, Goods and services, ... Expand index (97 more) »

  2. Human rights-related lists
  3. LGBT rights by location
  4. LGBT-related legislation

Adultery laws

Adultery laws are the laws in various countries that deal with extramarital sex.

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The age of consent is the age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts. LGBT rights by country or territory and age of consent are Minimum ages, sex laws, sexuality and age and Youth rights.

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Akkadian literature

Akkadian literature is the ancient literature written in the Akkadian language (Assyrian and Babylonian dialects) in Mesopotamia (Assyria and Babylonia) during the period spanning the Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age (roughly the 23rd to 6th centuries BC).

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Anti-bullying legislation

Anti-bullying legislation is a legislation enacted to help reduce and eliminate bullying.

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Anti-discrimination law

Anti-discrimination law or non-discrimination law refers to legislation designed to prevent discrimination against particular groups of people; these groups are often referred to as protected groups or protected classes.

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Arthashastra

The Arthashastra (अर्थशास्त्रम्) is an Ancient Indian Sanskrit treatise on statecraft, political science, economic policy and military strategy.

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Assisted reproductive technology

Assisted reproductive technology (ART) includes medical procedures used primarily to address infertility.

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Assyria

Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: x16px, māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC.

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Assyrian law

Assyrian law, also known as the Middle Assyrian Laws (MAL) or the Code of the Assyrians, was an ancient legal code developed between 1450 and 1250 BCE in the Middle Assyrian Empire.

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Aulus Gellius

Aulus Gellius (c. 125after 180 AD) was a Roman author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome.

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Ayoni

Ayoni is non-vaginal sex in Hindu culture.

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Šumma ālu

Šumma ālu ina mēlê šakin is the title for a series of a collected number of cuneiform texts of ancient Mesopotamia amounting to one hundred and twenty clay tablets.

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Bathroom bill

A bathroom bill is the common name for legislation or a statute that denies access to public toilets by gender or transgender identity.

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Benelux

The Benelux Union (Benelux Unie; Union Benelux; Benelux-Unioun) or Benelux is a politico-economic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighbouring states in Western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

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Bisexuality

Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females (gender binary), to more than one gender, or to both people of the same gender and different genders.

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Blood donation restrictions on men who have sex with men

Many countries have laws, regulations, or recommendations that effectively prohibit donations of blood or tissue for organ and corneal transplants from men who have sex with men (MSM), a classification irrespective of their sexual activities with same-sex partners and of whether they identify themselves as bisexual or gay.

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Book of Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy (second law; Liber Deuteronomii) is the fifth book of the Torah (in Judaism), where it is called (דְּבָרִים|Dəḇārīm| words) and the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament.

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Book of Genesis

The Book of Genesis (from Greek; בְּרֵאשִׁית|Bərēʾšīṯ|In beginning; Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Capital punishment for homosexuality

Capital punishment as a criminal punishment for homosexuality has been implemented by a number of countries in their history.

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Capital punishment for non-violent offenses

Capital punishment for offenses is allowed by law in some countries.

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Cato the Elder

Marcus Porcius Cato (234–149 BC), also known as Cato the Censor (Censorius), the Elder and the Wise, was a Roman soldier, senator, and historian known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization.

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Censorship of LGBT issues

Censorship of LGBT issues is practised by some countries around the world.

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Chechnya

Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a republic of Russia.

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Civil union

A civil union (also known as a civil partnership) is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, created primarily as a means to provide recognition in law for same-sex couples.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Codex Theodosianus

The Codex Theodosianus ("Theodosian Code") is a compilation of the laws of the Roman Empire under the Christian emperors since 312.

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Constantine the Great and Christianity

During the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great (306–337 AD), Christianity began to transition to the dominant religion of the Roman Empire.

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Conversion therapy

Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to align with heterosexual and cisgender norms.

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Criminalization of homosexuality

Some or all sexual acts between men, and less frequently between women, have been classified as a criminal offense in various regions. LGBT rights by country or territory and Criminalization of homosexuality are LGBT-related legislation and sex laws.

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Cross-dressing

Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender.

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De facto

De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.

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De jure

In law and government, de jure describes practices that are legally recognized, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality.

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Death by burning

Death by burning is an execution, murder, or suicide method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat.

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Decriminalization of homosexuality

Decriminalization of homosexuality is the repeal of laws criminalizing same-sex acts between multiple men or multiple women.

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Desertion

Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or post without permission (a pass, liberty or leave) and is done with the intention of not returning.

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Dharmaśāstra

Dharmaśāstra (धर्मशास्त्र) are Sanskrit Puranic Smriti texts on law and conduct, and refer to treatises (śāstras) on Dharma.

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Discrimination

Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.

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Domestic partnership

A domestic partnership is an intimate relationship between people, usually couples, who live together and share a common domestic life but who are not married (to each other or to anyone else).

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Equaldex

Equaldex is an online publication resource on LGBTQ rights. LGBT rights by country or territory and Equaldex are human rights-related lists.

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Eunuch

A eunuch is a male who has been castrated.

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Forbidden Tale

Forbidden tale: A comprehensive study on lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) in Iran was written by Kameel Ahmady, a British Iranian social researcher and anthropologist, and published by Mehri Publishing House in 2020 in London.

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Fordham University

Fordham University is a private Jesuit research university in New York City.

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Freedman

A freedman or freedwoman is a person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.

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Fustuarium

In the military of ancient Rome, fustuarium (Greek ξυλοκοπία, xylokopia.) or fustuarium supplicium ("the punishment of cudgeling") was a severe form of military discipline in which a soldier was cudgeled to death.

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Gay

Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.

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Gay sex roles

In human sexuality, top, bottom, and versatile are roles during sexual activity, especially between two men.

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Gender role

A gender role, or sex role, is a set of socially accepted behaviors and attitudes deemed appropriate or desirable for individuals based on their sex.

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Gender-affirming surgery

Gender-affirming surgery is a surgical procedure, or series of procedures, that alters a person's physical appearance and sexual characteristics to resemble those associated with their identified gender.

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Goods and services

Goods are items that are usually (but not always) tangible, such as pens or apples.

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Hate crime

A hate crime (also known a bias crime) is crime where a perpetrator targets a victim because of their physical appearance or perceived membership of a certain social group.

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Hate speech laws by country

Hate speech is public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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ILGA-Europe

ILGA-Europe is the European region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.

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International Commission of Jurists

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is an international human rights non-governmental organization.

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International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association

The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) is a LGBTQ+ rights organization.

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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the Fordham University History Department and Center for Medieval Studies.

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Jubaland

Jubaland (Jubbaland, جوبالاند, Oltregiuba), the Juba Valley (Dooxada Jubba), is a Federal Member State in southern Somalia.

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Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.

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Justinian I

Justinian I (Iūstīniānus,; Ioustinianós,; 48214 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565.

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Juvenal

Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD.

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Law of Moses

The Law of Moses (תֹּורַת מֹשֶׁה), also called the Mosaic Law, is the law said to have been revealed to Moses by God.

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Multiple countries legally recognize non-binary or third gender classifications.

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The legal status of same-sex marriage has changed in recent years in numerous jurisdictions around the world.

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The legal status of transgender people varies greatly around the world.

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Legality of conversion therapy

Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl.

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Leviticus 18

Leviticus 18 (the eighteenth chapter of the Book of Leviticus) deals with a number of sexual activities considered abominable, including incest and bestiality.

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Lex Aquilia

The lex Aquilia was a Roman law which provided compensation to the owners of property injured by someone's fault, set in the 3rd century BC, in the Roman Republic.

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Lex Scantinia

The Lex Scantinia (less often Scatinia) is a poorly documented Roman law that penalized stuprum (criminalized sexual behavior or "sex crime") against a freeborn male minor (ingenuus or praetextatus). LGBT rights by country or territory and Lex Scantinia are LGBT-related legislation and sex laws.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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LGBT people and military service

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) personnel are able to serve in the armed forces of some countries around the world: the vast majority of industrialized, Western countries including some South American countries, such as Argentina, Brazil and Chile in addition to other countries, such as the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Mexico, France, Finland, Denmark and Israel.

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LGBT people in prison

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people face difficulties in prison such as increased vulnerability to sexual assault, other kinds of violence, and trouble accessing necessary medical care.

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LGBT rights at the United Nations

Discussions of LGBT rights at the United Nations have included resolutions and joint statements in the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), attention to the expert-led human rights mechanisms (such as the United Nations Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures), as well as by the UN Agencies.

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LGBT rights in Afghanistan

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan face severe challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.

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LGBT rights in Andorra

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Andorra have advanced significantly in the 21st century, and are now considered generally progressive.

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LGBT rights in Brunei

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Brunei face severe challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.

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LGBT rights in Canada

Canadian lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights are some of the most extensive in the world.

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LGBT rights in Chile

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Chile have advanced significantly in the 21st century, and are now quite progressive.

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LGBT rights in Iran

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Iran face severe challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.

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LGBT rights in Malta

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Malta rank among the highest in the world.

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LGBT rights in Mauritania

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Mauritania face severe challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.

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LGBT rights in Nigeria

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Nigeria face severe challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.

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LGBT rights in Saudi Arabia

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Saudi Arabia face repression and discrimination.

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LGBT rights in Somalia

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Somalia face severe challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.

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LGBT rights in Spain

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Spain rank among the highest in the world, having undergone significant advancements within recent decades.

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LGBT rights in Sudan

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Sudan face significant challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.

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LGBT rights in Sweden

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Sweden are regarded as some of the most progressive in Europe and the world.

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LGBT rights in the Netherlands

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in the Netherlands are among the most advanced in the world.

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LGBT rights in the State of Palestine

Homosexuality in the Palestinian territories is considered a taboo subject; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people experience persecution and violence.

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LGBT rights in the United Arab Emirates

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the United Arab Emirates face discrimination and legal challenges.

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LGBT rights in Uruguay

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Uruguay rank among the highest in the world.

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LGBT rights in Yemen

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) people in Yemen face severe challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.

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List of anti-discrimination acts

This is a list of anti-discrimination acts (often called discrimination acts or anti-discrimination laws), which are laws designed to prevent discrimination.

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Lot's wife

In the Bible, Lot's wife is a figure first mentioned in.

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Luck

Luck is the phenomenon and belief that defines the experience of improbable events, especially improbably positive or negative ones.

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Male prostitution

Male prostitution is a form of sex work consisting of act or practice of men providing sexual services in return for payment.

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Manusmriti

The Manusmṛti (मनुस्मृति), also known as the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra or the Laws of Manu, is one of the many legal texts and constitutions among the many of Hinduism.

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Mark Antony

Marcus Antonius (14 January 1 August 30 BC), commonly known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from a constitutional republic into the autocratic Roman Empire.

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Marriage in ancient Rome

Marriage in ancient Rome (conubium) was a fundamental institution of society and was used by Romans primarily as a tool for interfamilial alliances.

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Military discipline

Military discipline is the obedience to a code of conduct while in military service.

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Minority rights

Minority rights are the normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or gender and sexual minorities, and also the collective rights accorded to any minority group.

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Nero

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68) was a Roman emperor and the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68.

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Nordic countries

The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden) are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.

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Omen

An omen (also called portent) is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change.

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Optimates and populares

Optimates (Latin for "best ones") and populares (Latin for "supporters of the people") are labels applied to politicians, political groups, traditions, strategies, or ideologies in the late Roman Republic.

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Perjury

Perjury (also known as foreswearing) is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding.

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Pew Research Center

The Pew Research Center (also simply known as Pew) is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.

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Philip the Arab

Philip the Arab (Marcus Julius Philippus "Arabs"; 204 – September 249) was Roman emperor from 244 to 249.

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Plutarch

Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.

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Polybius

Polybius (Πολύβιος) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period.

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Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.

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Prostitution in ancient Rome

Prostitution in ancient Rome was legal and licensed.

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Pythagoras (freedman)

Pythagoras was a freedman of the Roman emperor Nero, whom he married in a public ceremony in which the emperor took the role of bride.

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Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.

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Roman army

The Roman army (Latin: exercitus Romanus) was the armed forces deployed by the Romans throughout the duration of Ancient Rome, from the Roman Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC) to the Roman Republic (509 BC–27 BC) and the Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD), and its medieval continuation, the Eastern Roman Empire.

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Roman dictator

A Roman dictator was an extraordinary magistrate in the Roman Republic endowed with full authority to resolve some specific problem to which he had been assigned.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Roman law

Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables, to the (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. Roman law forms the basic framework for civil law, the most widely used legal system today, and the terms are sometimes used synonymously.

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Same-sex adoption

Same-sex adoption is the adoption of children by same-sex couples.

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Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex. LGBT rights by country or territory and same-sex marriage are LGBT-related legislation.

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Same-sex parenting

Same-sex parenting (also known as rainbow families) is the parenting of children by same-sex couples generally consisting of gays or lesbians who are often in civil partnerships, domestic partnerships, civil unions, or same-sex marriages.

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Same-sex relationship

A same-sex relationship is a romantic or sexual relationship between people of the same sex.

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Sex and the law

Sex and the law deals with the regulation by law of human sexual activity. LGBT rights by country or territory and sex and the law are sex laws.

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Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment is a type of harassment involving the use of explicit or implicit sexual overtones, including the unwelcome and inappropriate promises of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.

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Sexual intercourse

Sexual intercourse (also coitus or copulation) is a sexual activity involving the insertion and thrusting of the male penis inside the female vagina for sexual pleasure, reproduction, or both.

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Sexuality in ancient Rome

Sexual attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome are indicated by art, literature, and inscriptions, and to a lesser extent by archaeological remains such as erotic artifacts and architecture.

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Slavery in ancient Rome

Slavery in ancient Rome played an important role in society and the economy.

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Social class

A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the working class, middle class, and upper class.

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Societal attitudes toward homosexuality

Societal attitudes toward homosexuality vary greatly across different cultures and historical periods, as do attitudes toward sexual desire, activity and relationships in general.

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Sodom and Gomorrah

In the Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities destroyed by God for their wickedness.

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Sodomy law

A sodomy law is a law that defines certain sexual acts as crimes. LGBT rights by country or territory and sodomy law are LGBT-related legislation.

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Sporus

Sporus was a young slave boy whom the Roman Emperor Nero had castrated and married as his Empress during his tour of Greece in 66–67 CE, allegedly in order for him to play the role of his wife, Poppaea Sabina, who had died the previous year.

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Suetonius

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius (– after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.

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The New Daily

The New Daily is an online Australian newspaper founded in 2013, and owned by Industry Super Holdings, which represents industry superannuation funds.

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Torah

The Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

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Transgender

A transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.

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Transgender hormone therapy

Transgender hormone therapy, also called hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT), is a form of hormone therapy in which sex hormones and other hormonal medications are administered to transgender or gender nonconforming individuals for the purpose of more closely aligning their secondary sexual characteristics with their gender identity.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United Nations Human Rights Council

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world.

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Vashistha Dharmasutra

The Vashistha Dharmasutra is one of the few surviving ancient Sanskrit Dharmasutras of Hinduism.

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Violence against LGBT people

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) people frequently experience violence directed toward their sexuality, gender identity, or gender expression.

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Yājñavalkya Smṛti

The Yajnavalkya Smriti (याज्ञवल्क्य स्मृति, IAST) is one of the many Dharma-related texts of Hinduism composed in Sanskrit.

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See also

Human rights-related lists

LGBT rights by location

LGBT-related legislation

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_territory

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