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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe latest nation to adopt an anti-gay law is Niger in West Africa.
\nIn adopting an anti-gay law on June 11, 2026, the West African nation of Niger strengthened a wave of anti-homosexuality legislation and proposed legislation in Africa that has reversed, at least temporarily, the slow decrease in the number of nations with anti-gay laws.
\nPreviously, its neighbors\u00a0Burkina Faso\u00a0and\u00a0Mali criminalized homosexuality in 2025. Together with a March 2025 decision by the Trinidad and Tobago Court of Appeal to reinstate that country\u2019s laws against homosexuality, these countries have turned back a wave a progress on decriminalization.
\nNiger\u2019s new anti-LGBTQ law comes in the wake of\u00a0Senegal\u2019s enactment of a law in March\u00a0that provides for up to 10 years in prison for gay sex and the\u00a0Ghana parliament\u2019s approval of a bill last month\u00a0that, if approved by Ghana\u2019s president, would imprison people for up to three years if they \u201cidentify\u201d as LGBTQ.
\nBefore the latest reversals, the number of nations with laws against gay sex had fallen to 63 from more than 90 at the beginning of the 2000s. The latest countries to end the criminalization of same-sex intimacy are St. Lucia in 2025; Namibia, Niue, and Dominica in 2024; Mauritius\u00a0and the Cook Islands in 2023; and Singapore, Antigua & Barbuda, Saint Kitts & Nevis, and Barbados in 2022.
\n See Also<\/p>\n
Map of the 66 countries where sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal. YELLOW\u00a0countries have sodomy laws that are currently being challenged before local courts. Sri Lanka, in\u00a0PINK,\u00a0currently has a bill before its parliament to repeal its sodomy law. Indonesia, in\u00a0ORANGE,\u00a0has laws that criminalize homosexuality only in some subnational jurisdictions. All states in\u00a0RED have nationwide sodomy laws and no known legislative efforts or court challenges to remove them.\u00a0
\nFor more information, see the Erasing 76 Crimes page \u201cList of 66 countries where homosexuality is illegal.\u201d\u00a0There you will find:<\/p>\n
A full list of nations with anti-homosexuality laws. The latest nation to adopt an anti-gay law is Niger in West Africa. In adopting an anti-gay law on June 11, 2026, the West African nation of Niger strengthened a wave of anti-homosexuality legislation and proposed legislation in Africa that has reversed, at least temporarily, the slow decrease in the number of nations with anti-gay …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3659155457675267_172535249438148":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Homosexuality-is-now-illegal-in-66-nations.png",960,446,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Homosexuality-is-now-illegal-in-66-nations-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Homosexuality-is-now-illegal-in-66-nations-300x139.png",300,139,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Homosexuality-is-now-illegal-in-66-nations-768x357.png",618,287,true],"large":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Homosexuality-is-now-illegal-in-66-nations.png",618,287,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Homosexuality-is-now-illegal-in-66-nations.png",960,446,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Homosexuality-is-now-illegal-in-66-nations.png",960,446,false],"tie-small":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Homosexuality-is-now-illegal-in-66-nations-110x75.png",110,75,true],"tie-medium":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Homosexuality-is-now-illegal-in-66-nations-310x165.png",310,165,true],"tie-large":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Homosexuality-is-now-illegal-in-66-nations-310x205.png",310,205,true],"slider":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Homosexuality-is-now-illegal-in-66-nations-660x330.png",660,330,true],"big-slider":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Homosexuality-is-now-illegal-in-66-nations.png",960,446,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRecent history of many nations repealing or overturning those laws and a few nations newly adopting them.
\nA comparison of this site\u2019s list with the similar list compiled by ILGA, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.<\/p>\n\n
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