State-sponsored Homophobia : Global Legislation Overview Update = Homofobia De Estado : Actualizacion Del Panorama Global De La Legislación

Mendos. L. R., K. Botha, R.C. Lelis, E.L. de la Peña

Every year, ILGA World publishes its State-Sponsored Homophobia report, a world survey of sexual orientation laws. This report provides data on laws that affect people on the basis of their sexual orientation. Together with the Sexual Orientation Laws in the World map, it paints a vivid picture of the progress and setbacks that happened across the world in 2020. It focuses exclusively on legal issues as they pertain to individuals and communities of diverse sexual orientations. This report focuses almost exclusively on the law, barring occasional comments around recent social developments for the sake of contextualisation. The current title of this publication is a remnant of the original, much more limited, scope of the report: when initially conceived, "State-Sponsored Homophobia" covered only the institutionalised prohibition (criminalisation of consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults in private). The scope of the report was progressively expanded, especially since 2015, to further include issues related to protection and recognition of rights of persons of diverse sexual orientations. However, the publication maintained its focus on legal aspects as they relate to sexual orientation, while other documents produced by ILGA World covered issues related to other statuses and identities. This report congregates data that has been gathered over many years by an ever-changing team of researchers.