Maps | sexual orientation laws
Every year, along with the State-Sponsored Homophobia report, ILGA World publishes also maps of sexual orientation laws in the world.
A useful tool for LGB human rights defenders, these images expose the arbitrariness of persecutory laws, and starkly indicate the absence of positive law in most parts of the world.
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This map is supported by the data collected in State-Sponsored Homophobia 2020: Global Legislation Overview Update (published in December 2020).
This map can be reproduced and printed without permission as long as ILGA World is properly credited and the content is not altered.
Download the ILGA World map on sexual orientation laws
The map is presented in two formats: a vectorized PDF file that can be used for printing in any size without any loss of quality
and a hi-res PNG file in case you wish to use it in any digital platform
Download the dataset of 2020
Previous datasets: 2019 * 2017 * 2016
Previous editions
ILGA World has been publishing maps on sexual orientation laws every year, producing them in various languages to reach out for more communities around the world.
This would have not been possible without the collaboration of various organisations, which either requested and funded the adaptation of the maps, or/and collaborated in their translation and proofreading.
These maps were previously called Lesbian and Gay Rights Maps, and you can find some of their pre-2019 editions below.
Criminalisation map - sexual orientation laws (2016)
Maps | sexual orientation laws
Protection map - sexual orientation laws (2016)
Maps | sexual orientation laws
Recognition map - sexual orientation laws (2016)
Maps | sexual orientation laws
Overview map - sexual orientation laws (2015)
Maps | sexual orientation laws
Overview map - sexual orientation laws (2014)
Maps | sexual orientation laws
Overview map - sexual orientation laws (2012)
Maps | sexual orientation laws