Cost of Being LGBT

[Shana A]

http://laird68.blogspot.com/2007/10/cost-of-being-lgbt-lesbian-gay-bi-andor.html

"The Cost of Being LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi, and/or Trans) in Today's World.

Algeria – A Fine to 3 Years in Prison
Angola – Labor Camps
Antigua and Barbuda – 15 Years in Prison
Bahrain – A Fine to 10 Years in Prison
Bangladesh – 10 Years to Life in Prison
Barbados – Life in Prison
Belize – 10 Years in Prison
Benin – 3 Years in Prison
Bhutan – 1 Month to 1 Year in Prison
Botswana – A Fine to 7 Years in Prison
Brunei – A Fine to 10 Years in Prison
Cameroon – A Fine to 5 Years in Prison
Cook Islands – A Fine to 14 Years in Prison
Djibouti – 10 to 12 Years in Prison
Dominica – 10 Years in Prison
Egypt – 5 Years in Prison
Eritrea – 3 to 10 Years in Prison
Ethiopia – 10 Days to 3 Years in Prison
Gambia – A Fine to 14 Years in Prison
Ghana – Not Known
Grenada – 10 Years in Prison
Guinea – 6 Months to 3 Years in Prison
Guinea Bissau – Labor Camps
India – A Fine to Life in Prison
Iran – Death
Jamaica – 10 Years Hard Labor
Kenya – A Fine to 14 Years in Prison
Kiribati – A Fine to 14 Years in Prison
Kuwait – A Fine to 7 Years in Prison
Lebanon – A Fine to 1 Year in Prison
Lesotho – Not Known
Liberia – A Fine
Libya – A Fine to 5 Years in Prison
Malawi – A Fine to 14 Years in Prison
Malaysia – A Fine to 20 Years in Prison
Mauritania – Death
Mauritius – A Fine to 5 Years in Prison
Morocco – 6 Months to 3 Years in Prison
Mozambique – Labor Camps
Myanmar/Burma – 10 Years to Life in Prison
Namibia – Not Known
Nauru – 14 Years Hard Labor
Nepal – A Fine to 1 Year in Prison
Nicaragua – 1 to 3 Years in Prison
Nigeria – 5 Years in Prison to Death
Niue – A Fine to 10 Years in Prison
Oman – A Fine to 3 Years in Prison
Pakistan – 2 Years to Life in Prison
Palau – A Fine to 10 Years in Prison
Palestine – A Fine to 10 Years in Prison
Papua New Guinea – A Fine to 14 Years in Prison
Qatar – A Fine to 5 Years in Prison
Saint Kitts and Nevis – 10 Years in Prison
Saint Lucia – A Fine to 10 Years in Prison
Saint Vincent and Grenadines – A Fine to 10 Years in Prison
Samoa – A Fine to 7 Years in Prison
Sao Tome and Principe – Labor Camps
Saudi Arabia – Death
Senegal – 1 Month to 5 Years in Prison
Seychelles – A Fine to 2 Years in Prison
Sierra Leone – Life in Prison
Singapore – 2 Years in Prison
Solomon Islands – A Fine to 14 Years in Prison
Somalia – 3 Months in Prison to Death
Sri Lanka – A Fine to 10 Years in Prison
Sudan – 5 Years in Prison to Death
Swaziland – A Fine
Syria – A Fine to 3 Years in Prison
Tanzania – A Fine to 25 Years in Prison
Togo – A Fine to 3 Years in Prison
Tokelau – A Fine to 10 Years in Prison
Trinidad and Tobago – 25 Years in Prison
Tunisia – A Fine to 3 Years in Prison
Turkmenistan – A Fine to 2 Years in Prison
Tuvalu – A Fine to 14 Years in Prison
Uganda – A Fine to Life in Prison
United Arab Emirates – Death
Uzbekistan – A Fine to 3 Years in Prison
Yemen – Flogging to Death
Zambia – A Fine to 14 Years in Prison
Zimbabwe – A Fine to 1 Year in Prison

The above list was compiled from data available at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country

Countries not listed, have no laws (known) against/directed at their LGBT populations."

[lisagurl]

The experience, Priceless! 

[RebeccaFog]

This world is going downhill.

[Pica Pica]

Maybe, but if you think that the number of countries calling being LGBT a crime has probably gone down in 80 years, could be said that things are getting better. Very Slowly. It's when the US ban it again that things will get ->-bleeped-<-.

[Terra]

*shakes head* Why on earth did I care so much about humanity before? To be fair, most of these countrie are 'developing' countries, not as modern as, say, the USA. Sad as it is, I do sorta beleive that Trans folk have more rights in the USA then most parts of the world, if not all. Not sure if that is all that great though.

[Keira]

That means I can't got to 10 of the countries I've been in already...
Yeah, life is weird.

[Pica Pica]

there is rather a lot of death there, Yemen's flogging to death being unpleasantly specific.

[Lori]

Myabe if I went to Angola I could lose this last 30 lbs in a labor camp?

[RebeccaFog]

Myabe if I went to Angola I could lose this last 30 lbs in a labor camp?

You won't need to go that far.   You've given me an idea of starting a labor camp here so's I can make money off of people who get sentences such as: "you are hereby sentenced to the labor camp for 30 pounds".
   This will enable me to become a success while my prisoners achieve their weight loss goals.

[Shana A]

The level of inhumanity is astounding. While it's not by any means perfect in the USA, at least I'm somewhat free to express who I am here, merely exposing myself to risk of possible employment discrimination and/or hate crimes. Oh joy.

zythyra

[suregirl]

A truly shocking list of vile hate-I am glad to be me but know that I am fortunate

[Rachael]

i heard the cost was £4.50 a month for your gaycard subscription? [/humour]

We covered this for our lgbt campaign at uni last year... the islamic circle had the nerve to ask us to take down the iran poster with the two young gay men in the gallows, and the afghanistan ones, because they showed a mosque.... when islamic religious law condemed homosexuals to death.... sounds fair eh?

lets not forget. lots of these countries that have penalites for being gay, have no problems  with straight trans folk....
R

[Attis]

It's Attila and the Witchdoctor, going hand in hand. But this too shall pass as more people wake up to longer lives, better food, and greater technologies and freedom. Basically, we're on the winning side of civilization, the nations listed are often the poorest of the poor, the lowest life spans, and the least technologically advanced, and the least free/libre of the world. Just remember the list, and mark it well, both as a reminder of how good we all have it in our own nations, and how far we have to go as well.

-- Brede